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Kassa Overall calls himself a "backpack jazz producer": a combination of jazz musician, rapper and bedroom producer. His latest album captures the evolving sound of hip-hop/jazz fusion.

As sales to restaurant clients dried up, oyster farmer Peter Stein had to adapt or perish. Now, he's delivering oysters directly to individual customers, doing about 20% of his usual business.

Drag queen D.J. "Shangela" Pierce talks about RuPaul's Drag Race and the new HBO series, We're Here.

This song's story always must be told and heard again; we have not yet moved beyond the need for its witnessing.

For the Morning Edition Song Project, we've been asking musicians to write and perform an original song for us. First up, Ketch Secor catalogs the state of the country on "Pray for America."

In the southern state of Oaxaca, volunteers in one town take turns driving a large speaker around. They play health tips, songs and even jokes to the town's elderly and others under COVID-19 lockdown.

Commissioner Dermot F. Shea says he will move toward more high tech, intelligence-based policing and away from "brute force." "It will be felt immediately in the communities that we protect," he says.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Jeremy Earl about his band Woods and its new album, Strange to Explain, which he wrote in the months following the birth of his daughter.

Yves-Emmanuel Segui was a pharmacist who died of COVID-19 complications. His older daughter, Dr. Morit Segui, remembers her father's perseverance and their last moments together.

In Our Daily Breather, we ask artists how to find calm in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. Joe Casey of Protomartyr recommends some unconventional films.