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New Hampshire students graduate with some of the highest rates of student debt in the country. Several Democratic presidential candidates have plans that would forgive student loans.

In the 1960s, Reagon was a founding member of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee's Freedom Singers. In 1988, she spoke to Fresh Airabout the songs she sang as an activist.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with rock band Los Lobos about their new Christmas album, Llegó Navidad.

April is Jazz Appreciation Month, but in 2020, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic that cost the jazz community many elders and working musicians, the phrase "appreciation" took a darker cast.

A song from the rapper's landmark album good kid, m.A.A.d city,produced by DJ Dahi,is built around an atmospheric sample. For one writer, it's a portal back to a night out in L.A. in 2015.

Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi team up to investigate the history of racist ideas through a narrative that's aimed at young adult readers. It's called: Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You.

A Jerusalem hotel hosted 180 quarantined COVID-19 patients from different backgrounds. Despite concerns they might clash, some became friends. The biggest test of togetherness came during Passover.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to former press secretary Sean Spicer about how President Trump has talked about Russia since taking office and his new book The Briefing.

This week has seen outrage over children being separated from parents at the border, and confusion over congressional immigration proposals. To help sort through all of it, Michel Martin speaks with former INS commissioner Doris Meissner; Annaluisa Padilla, President at the American Immigration Lawyers Association; and Julian Aguilar, immigration reporter Texas Tribune.

When her daughter Maile Pearl was born in April, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., became the first senator to have a baby during a term in office. She shares her observations with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly.