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Rachel Martin talks to Kirsten West Savali, who writes for the online magazine The Root and knew Erica Garner. Garner's life was transformed by the death of her father at the hands of the NYPD.

American troops came under artillery fire in Syria this week. We have the latest on the fighting there and the U.S. involvement in the Syrian civil war.

Dan Fesperman's spy caper Pariah follows a disgraced comic-politician who's recruited by the CIA. The Dancing Face, by Mike Phillips, is a crime caper that confronts the spoils of colonialism.

Guitarist Otis Rush helped shape the Chicago blues sound, and deeply influenced a generation of musicians including Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton and Buddy Guy. He died on Saturday at the age of 84.

It's the third time in the last ten years that the rating system for Ohio schools and buildings has changed, with each change said to be a way of making the system of grading schools easier to understand.

Ohio’s forests are under constant threat from ever-expanding suburbs and from pests and diseases. Holden Forest and Gardens says that makes it an ideal location for a seed bank.

The county adopted the idea of friendship benches from Zimbabwe. It aims to address social isolation by bringing trained health workers into underserved parts of the community.

The county adopted the idea of friendship benches from Zimbabwe. It aims to address social isolation by bringing trained health workers into underserved parts of the community.

Of course, leave it to the gigantic nerds at NPR to throw a literary tailgate ... but to thine own self be true, even if it means getting stuffed into your locker later this afternoon.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, helped lead federal efforts to protect women from domestic violence and recognize Juneteenth as a national holiday. She announced she had pancreatic cancer in June.