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Marc Silver

Marc Silver, who edits NPR's global health blog, has been a reporter and editor for the Baltimore Jewish Times, U.S. News & World Report and National Geographic. He is the author of Breast Cancer Husband: How to Help Your Wife (and Yourself) During Diagnosis, Treatment and Beyond and co-author, with his daughter, Maya Silver, of My Parent Has Cancer and It Really Sucks: Real-Life Advice From Real-Life Teens. The NPR story he co-wrote with Rebecca Davis and Viola Kosome -- 'No Sex For Fish' — won a Sigma Delta Chi award for online reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists.

Nigerians make up one of the largest groups of African immigrants in the U.S. Some are worried that family members who've applied for visas won't be able to come now because of new travel ban restrictions.

Nigerians Shocked By Trump's New Immigration Restrictions

The Trump administration plans to bar Nigerians from applying for immigrant visas in the future, citing security concerns. Nigerian communities in the U.S. worry how this could affect them.

A soldier stands guard on a blockaded road to Myanmar's parliament in Naypyidaw on Monday, after the military detained the country's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other officials and activists.

Opinion: After Myanmar Coup, U.S. Must Nudge Military To Share Power With Suu Kyi

The armed forces will likely find it harder to rule a changed Myanmar on its own — and the world should convince it not to, argues Charles Dunst of the East-West Center in Washington.

US Soccer Foundation donates 2 mini-pitches to underserved Cleveland neighborhoods

The mini-pitches are part of the nonprofit’s goal to bring soccer to underserved communities across the country.

Madam C.J. Walker is the latest woman to join Barbie's Inspiring Women collection. Walker's great-great-granddaughter worked with Barbie to incorporate details from the pioneering businesswoman's life.

Madam C.J. Walker, the first U.S. self-made female millionaire, gets her own Barbie

Businesswoman Madam C.J. Walker is the latest to join Barbie's line of Inspiring Women dolls. Walker's great-great-granddaughter said she hopes the doll will show kids they too can be entrepreneurs.

Congressman Tim Ryan says the Fiscal Year 2021 Defense Spending Bill invests in Northeast Ohio manufacturing.

Federal Defense Spending Bill to Benefit Manufacturing in Northeast Ohio

The Youngstown Air Reserve Station and additive manufacturing programs in Northeast Ohio are expected to benefit from a $270 million defense spending...

Chicken parts sit in a cooler for sale in the El Mercado Market in "Kimmeytown", an area of Georgetown, Delaware. It became a Guatemalan neighborhood beginning in the 1990's, because it's within walking distance of a Perdue chicken processing plant, which employs a large number of people from Latin American who live in town.

Undocumented But In Demand: Immigration And Labor In America

The meatpacking, farming, construction and manufacturing industries all rely heavily on an immigrant workforce. Many of those workers are undocumented.

The largest portion of a new White House funding request is for $22.4 billion in COVID-19 funding, money that would go toward stockpiling vaccines and tests, as well as to research and development and the global vaccine response.

White House asks for $47 billion for Ukraine, COVID-19, monkeypox and disasters

The administration hopes the funding request will become part of an upcoming short-term spending bill aimed at funding the federal government beyond Sept. 30.

Morning Headlines: Feds Raid Cleveland City Hall; Franklin GOP Backs Novice for U.S. Senate

Here are your morning headlines for Thursday, December 7th: University of Akron will hike and freeze tuition; Kent State journalism student dies; Feds...

Bupe Sinkala of Zambia was diagnosed with HIV shortly before her wedding, didn't tell her fiance — and later saw her life come tumbling down. With the support of family and a new job as a community health worker, she has found joy. She shared her views on the import of community health work at the U.N. General Assembly this week.

HIV crashed her life. She found her way back to joy — and spoke at the U.N. this week

Diagnosed with HIV before her wedding, Bupe Sinkala didn't tell her husband and saw her marriage — and life — crumble. Now she's a community health worker advocating for her unsung profession.

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