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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Myrlie Evers-Williams, the widow of Medgar Evers who was assassinated in their home state of Mississippi, about the state removing the Confederate insignia from its flag.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with outgoing Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., about President Trump, tariffs and the impact on her home state.

Members of Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill community remember the 11 people who were killed on Saturday in a shooting.

As Cicely Tyson's memorial takes place in her home of Harlem, New York, NPR speaks with Black women whose lives were changed by Tyson's work and symbolic power.

Fresh Off the Boatauthor and restaurateur Eddie Huang discusses Taiwanese buns, basketball, and his directorial debut, Boogie. Then, he plays a game about his favorite animal, pandas.

Recorded in 1962, the newly remastered Live at the Bon Soir was meant to be Streisand's debut album, despite the singer's aversion to public performance.

As a child, Armenian-American writer Meline Toumani was taught to see Turks as a bitter enemy. She wrote her new book, There Was and There Was Not, in an effort to understand that conflict.

The family drama — parts of which were shot in Ohio — follows a transgender woman returning home to the midwest to care for her ailing mother whom she hasn’t seen in years.

Valeria Luiselli, who was born in Mexico City and lives now in Harlem, released two slim, multinational books this year: the essay collection Sidewalks and her time-jumping novel Faces in the Crowd.

New research from California State University suggests 1 in 10 students there are homeless and 1 in 5 are food insecure. NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks to George Parker, a once homeless student.