Search results for

NPR correspondent Pam Fessler, author of Carville's Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice, talks about her research into this once feared disease — and its connection to COVID-19.

American Haley Anderson has prepared for all the challenges she can expect in the open-water swim. The goal: improve on her 2012 performance, where she missed out on gold by four-tenths of a second.

Scott Simon speaks to author Huda Fahmy about her new book, "Huda F Are You?"

Eyder Peralta talks with Charles Waters and Irene Latham about their book, "African Town." It's about the community established by the Africans on the last slave ship to the U.S.

Journalist Max Hastings discusses his new book, Armageddon. The book tells the story of the bloody and violent final months of World War II from the point of view of the people who suffered through those months — and lived to tell about it.

Brittany Martin, 34, was convicted of breaching the peace in a high and aggravated manner, and may have to give birth in prison. An advocate notes that some Jan. 6 rioters are serving far less time.

Prescribing medical abortions across state lines is now risky for doctors. "We're talking about something that's a protected right in one state and a felony in a sister state," says one legal scholar.

This movie, starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, introduced me to the idea that love could be dangerous and you should learn to protect yourself. But that's not the only lesson I learned.

Another measure would begin process of considering a new state flag

In 1966, Jim Grimsley's North Carolina school was integrated. NPR's Tamara Keith talks to Grimsley and one of his first black classmates, Donnie Meadows, about Grimsley's book, How I Shed My Skin.