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For The Hundred-Year Walk, author Dawn Anahid MacKeen visited the sites of her grandfather's escape. Like him, she says she found a haven in Raqqa, Syria, a city currently controlled by ISIS.

Dozens of black religious leaders boycotted Mayor Rahm Emanuel's Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast. David Greene talks to Chicago pastor Corey Brooks about the mayor's handling of police violence.

Audie Cornish speaks with Black Lives Matter activist Elle Hearns, after a grand jury declined to indict the two Cleveland police officers involved in the 2014 shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice.

A shortage of line workers raises the question: How do you entice millennials into tough electric utility work, when "you can't get a kid to lick a stamp, much less climb a pole" these days?

NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with Matt Johnson, president of the Los Angeles Police Commission, which conducts civilian oversight of the LAPD. He is the sole African-American member of the commission.

Syed Farook, 28, an American citizen, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, who were in a relationship, are believed to have been the only attackers at a holiday party for Farook's co-workers.

Scientists worldwide face a yearly challenge in deciding what goes into the annual flu vaccine to make it effective. The job requires keeping tabs on a massive group of speedy, shape-shifting viruses.

Fear campaigns can motivate people to quit smoking or eat less. But fearmongering can go too far. When is scaring for health's sake acceptable, and when is it distasteful?

The deep-rooted history and current disrepair of the aging Alabama bus fleet continue to affect its predominantly black riders.

The state says the permit expires Saturday. Uber itself says it won't seek a renewal. Hours earlier Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced he's suspending testing there, where the death occurred.