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Shannon J. Effinger

Shannon J. Effinger has been a freelance arts journalist for more than a decade. Her writing on all things jazz and music regularly appears in Pitchfork, Bandcamp, Jazziz, Jazzwise,and Downbeat. As of the fall of 2020, her arts coverage can also be found in The New York Times and The Washington Post;the latter features her Sunday arts cover story on Marshall Allen, the longtime leader of the Sun Ra Arkestra.

NPR Planet Money and How I Built This with Guy Raz tile

Planet Money & How I Built This

BBC Newshour

A girl carries a child in the outskirts of Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi. That's one of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa that has made good progress in reducing child mortality.

Child Deaths Drop From 14.2 Million In 1990 To 7.3 Million In 2015

That's the encouraging news in a new report. But it also means more kids are living long enough to face a host of serious challenges to their physical and mental health.