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Lewis speaks of growing up in Alabama in this 2009 interview. At the time, there was a county whose population was 80 percent African American that didn't have a single registered black voter.

All of Wyoming is facing criticism after a man there displayed a wolf he captured in a bar.

The state agency responsible for keeping Illinois’ most vulnerable children safe has failed to produce legally required public reports after examining what went wrong in hundreds of cases of child deaths and thousands of serious injuries, the Illinois Answers Project reports.

Black voters have traditionally been a critical part of the Democratic Party’s coalition. But polls this year show a softening of that support.

As tariffs on goods from China take effect, consumer sentiment is at its lowest level in 14 years.

This latest case, in which lawyers argue their client had no proven links to MS-13, adds to the growing judicial and public scrutiny about the deportations to El Salvador's notorious mega-prison.

NPR revisits four voters whom we first met as Barack Obama was campaigning for president. They reflect on the past 8 years, react to Donald Trump's victory and share their hopes for the future.

Any remembrance of Rudy Klokkenga must include softball. He played it as a young man, becoming a pitching ace in an era when many small towns fielded men’s fastpitch teams. His name is on the Illinois State softball press box, a tribute to Klokkenga’s unwavering love and support of the Redbirds.

There's excitement and tension among Democrats as thousands of delegates head to Chicago for the party's convention this week.

Fifty years after the death of Martin Luther King Jr., his hometown still has major racial disparities in mortality and other measures of health.