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There's a new federal fund to address highways that cut through minority and low-income neighborhoods, like New Orleans' Claiborne Expressway. But should the noisy highway be upgraded, or moved away?

County Board Chair Catherine Metsker said she thinks the county's behavioral health advisory group lacks structure, and she’s tackling the issue head-on. Her self-identified “ambitious goal” is to formalize policies and procedures for the Behavioral Health Coordinating Council — for the first time in its history — and she wants to get it done in under six months.

A grassroots-led campaign organized hundreds of protests and events across the U.S. Organizers say the momentum built on resistance against the Trump administration has not slowed.

When he was 12, Gates made a bargain with Jesus in an attempt to save his mother's life. He talks about how that altered his own life, and his new book and PBS series, The Black Church.

McLorin Salvant first studied classical voice, but turned to jazz because it offered her more range. "In jazz, I felt I could sing these deep, husky lows," she says. Originally broadcast Nov. 4, 2015.

Steinem reflects on her unique childhood and the illegal abortion she had when she was 22. She is the subject of the new biopic, The Glorias. Originally broadcast in 1987 and 2015.

As she approached 60, the co-founder of Ms. magazine says, she entered a new phase in life, one in which "you can do what you want." Originally broadcast Oct. 26, 2015.

Local therapists argue that text messages are no substitute for in-person mental health services.

Bloomington-Normal has the lowest unemployment in the state, despite showing a job loss in the last month.

For the past two weeks, NPR's Mike Shuster has been travelling through the former Soviet republics in Central Asia, following the ancient trade route known as the Silk Road... from Iran through Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and now Tadjikistan, which has been embroiled in a civil war since 1992. He spoke with Robert Siegel from the town of Garm, about 100 miles east of Tadjikistan's capital, Dushanbe. He says that the people in Garm are proud of their new-found independence, but are struggling to rebuild a city that has essentially collapsed with the departure of the Soviets and a four year civil war.