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De Facto School Segregation Growing, Study Says

A new Harvard University study finds America's public schools are more segregated now than they were 15 years ago. Ed Gordon discusses the findings with Harvard professor Gary Orfield, a co-author of the study, and with John Brittain, chief counsel and senior deputy for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

Finalist Interviews This Week For Unit 5 Superintendent

The Unit 5 school board this week is interviewing three finalists to become the district’s new superintendent.The second-round interviews began Monday…

Israeli settlers and soldiers are redrawing the map of the West Bank

As the world looks to Gaza, settlers in the West Bank are seizing land and terrorizing villages with impunity.

Independent Oversight Board Considers Trump's Ban On Facebook

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Kate Klonick of St. John's University about whether Facebook's Oversight Board will decide to allow former President Donald Trump to return to the social media platform.

People pray outside the scene of a shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y., on Sunday. A day earlier, a white 18-year-old killed 10 people and wounded three in what authorities described as "racially motivated violent extremism."

What we know so far about the Buffalo mass shooting

10 people are dead after an 18-year-old white man allegedly carried out an attack at a supermarket in a majority Black community.

A prisoner works on the lawn at the Dade Correctional Institution In 2014, in Florida City, Fla. On Friday, Miami-Dade prosecutor Katherine Fernandez Rundle found no wrongdoing in the death of mentally ill prisoner Darren Rainey, who was locked in a shower stall at the Dade Correctional Institution in June 2012. He died after he was left unattended for two hours with the water running.

After Inmate With Schizophrenia Dies In Shower, Fla. Prosecutor Finds No Wrongdoing

Four years after Darren Rainey died in a prison shower, the Miami-Dade prosecutor decided against charging any officers. Since the 1960s, the mentally ill have increasingly been housed in prisons.

A member of the custodial staff at Los Angeles' Union Station, taking extra care in the waiting area — all part of enhanced cleaning efforts at major transit hubs in response to COVID-19.

Ships, Planes And Other Spots Are Getting A 'Deep Clean.' What's That Mean?

There is no universal protocol defining "deep clean" as industries work to eradicate the coronavirus. Instead they are tailoring sanitation efforts in accordance with what makes sense for them.

Merger of Heartland, Town and Country banks part of a national trend

The merger of Bloomington-based Heartland Bank and Trust and Springfield-based Town and Country Bank, announced in August, is part of an ongoing national trend.

Obama To Nominate Jack Lew As Head Of Treasury

President Obama will nominate his Chief of Staff Jack Lew to be the next Treasury Secretary. Lew is a budget expert who could hit the ground running as the treasury tries to cope with a looming debt ceiling, automatic spending cuts and the ongoing push for long-term deficit reduction.

Catherwood

In the spring of 1676, a ship full of English immigrants sets sail across the Atlantic. On board is a young woman named Catherwood Lyte and her new husband, Gabriel -- bound for a new life in the New World. The passage is rough and the travellers afraid... but they eventually reach the port of New York in the opening of a new short work of historical fiction by writer Marly Youmans (YOO-munz). (Stations: Catherwood is published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.)

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