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When we last caught up with Ryan Weisheit, “Pokey LaFarge sideman" was new to the musical resume of the co-founder of New York City’s hot jazz ensemble…

A Radio Diaries podcast brings the story of one daughter's search for her father and the discovery of a family she never knew.

In one refugee settlement in Chad, estimates are that 97% of the Sudanese residents are women and children. Here's how four women there are mourning the loss of a partner and struggling to get by.

During the 1980s and 1990s, the Catholic Church was often the focus of criticism and protests for its condemnation of queerness and its lack of response to the AIDS crisis.

Kitty Burns Florey explores a lost art in Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog, subtitled "The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences." Once used to teach grammar, the practice has fallen out of favor. Florey talks with Scott Simon about the book.

In Don't Make Me Stop Now, author Michael Parker looks at love, loss and bad choices. His short stories are infused with soulful musical notes from the likes of Otis Redding and Joe Tex.

This week, HEAL Palestine, a non-profit organization, will carry out the largest known evacuation of wounded children from Gaza to the United States. Co-founder Zeena Salman shares some of the children's stories.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Emily Watson and Olivia Williams, who play the leads in the HBO prequel series "Dune: Prophecy." The season premiere airs on Max on November 17.

NPR's Camila Domonoske speaks with Colorado State student Khalid Maleeh, whose father was killed while fleeing violence Khartoum, Sudan.

Ahmed Alnaouq posts the stories of Palestinians with the organization We Are Not Numbers. Then, he lost over 20 members of his family when an Israeli airstrike hit his family home.