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America's young voters are more likely to be independent than their parents, and in 2016, many millennials flocked behind independent Senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.

In America, Every Day Is Independents' Day

Four charts that explain what's up with America's independents on Independence Day. (Get it?) (Do you?) (If you don't, we can explain.)

There's a 12-year or greater difference in life span among neighborhoods in Fulton County, Georgia, of which Atlanta is the county seat.

Atlanta Struggles To Fulfill MLK's Legacy In Health Care

Fifty years after the death of Martin Luther King Jr., his hometown still has major racial disparities in mortality and other measures of health.

When Angelina Diaz-Ramirez, an immigrant farmworker from Mexico, suffered a heart attack, no one at the hospital could explain what was happening to her. She speaks Triqui, an indigenous language in southern Mexico.

Hospitals Struggle To Help Farmworkers Who Speak Triqui Or Mixteco

One-third of farmworkers in California speak indigenous languages from southern Mexico. Many don't speak Spanish or English, a situation that poses challenges for health care providers.

Reginald Dwayne Betts serves as a national spokesman for the Campaign for Youth Justice. He is also the author of <em>A Question of Freedom </em>and<em> Shahid Reads His Own Palm.</em>

In 'Bastards Of The Reagan Era' A Poet Says His Generation Was 'Just Lost'

After being convicted of carjacking as a teenager, Reginald Dwayne Betts spent eight years in an adult prison. Since his release, he has become a poet and a Yale law student.

Jennifer Lawrence stars as Joy Mangano, the creator of the Miracle Mop, in the comic drama <em>Joy</em>.

Jennifer Lawrence Looks Back On A Career-Changing 'Yes-Or-No Question'

Lawrence got her big break as Katniss in the Hunger Gamesseries. She says concerns about the price of fame made her hesitate before saying "yes" to the role. She's now starring in the drama Joy.

A teen girl with a smart phone in Kolkata, India, photographed in April 2020 during the government-imposed lockdown. Schools pivoted to virtual learning, which shut out many students — especially girls in low-income communities — without access to mobile devices.

Smartphones are taboo for some girls in India. That's bad news for their future

In some communities, parents won't get a phone for a daughter (though they will for a son). That's set girls back during the virtual learning of the pandemic and can dampen their job prospects.

Writer Judy Blume poses for a portrait at Books and Books, her non-profit bookstore in Key West, Fla., on March 26.

Judy Blume was banned from the beginning, but says 'It never stopped me from writing'

Known for her books about adolescence and all that comes with it, Judy Blume is widely beloved and widely banned. Her 1970 novel, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. has been adapted for the screen.

I went on a date with my AI dream guy. Then I cried over shrimp

It started as a one-off dinner with a chatbot — a night of shrimp, sarcasm — then veered into something unsettlingly human.

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, 16, attends a protest outside the White House on Friday. She launched the Friday school strikes last year, and since then, her fame has steadily grown. She is known for speaking in clear and powerful terms about why people — particularly young people — must pay attention to Earth's climate.

Greta Thunberg To U.S.: 'You Have A Moral Responsibility' On Climate Change

The young Swedish activist led a protest at the White House on Friday. But she wasn't looking to go inside. "I don't want to meet with people who don't accept the science," she says.

Republican Rep. Michael Waltz Discusses Ongoing Impeachment Inquiry

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Rep. Michael Waltz, one of the Republican lawmakers who participated in a protest Wednesday on Capitol Hill, demanding greater transparency in the impeachment inquiry.

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