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Sixty years ago Tuesday, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus. Recruits in Montgomery, Ala., are learning about Parks in a course aimed at eliminating bias in policing.

A controversial new paper suggests schools in New York City are less safe now that fewer students are being suspended.

Charlottesville, Va., is bracing for the anniversary of last summer's deadly white nationalist rally.

Speaking about monument removals across the U.S., Mayor Catherine Pugh says, "They're coming down so fast, I don't know if we have enough museums to house them or enough cemeteries to stick them in."

The storm surge started pushing water into areas around Lake Pontchartrain Friday, as Barry slowly moved toward shore. Some inland areas could see 3 feet to as much as 6 feet of water.

Cape Town, South Africa, is now a global food hot spot. But the lack of restaurants serving traditional dishes of the continent speaks to larger concerns about what this post-apartheid society values.

Asian American Michelle Wu is Boston's first elected mayor who isn't a white man. While many celebrate the milestone, others lament that all the Black candidates failed.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Naheed Farid, a member of Afghanistan's deposed parliament. She lives in the U.S. now, but continues to advocate and fight for her country.

Experts disagree on whether Katrina's floodwaters are the source of the high levels of contaminants in New Orleans' soil, or if the contaminates were there before the storm. What's not in dispute is that the lead, arsenic and other hazardous chemicals found in older neighborhoods needs to be cleaned up.

Once a thriving river port, the southern Iraqi city of Basra fell on hard times during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war and years of U.N. sanctions. Three years after the U.S. invasion, the city is still mired in poverty, and daily life in this once cosmopolitian city is being transformed by the growing power of conservative Islamist parties.