MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Now step into the way-back machine onto the dance floors of the 1980s. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, WALK THE DINOSAUR) SWEET PEA ATKINSON: (Singing) The sun was spitting fire. The sky was blue as ice. I felt a little tired, so I watched M...
Sunday Morning Alt.Latino Serenade: Four Tracks For Your Weekend (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DIANA GAMEROS: (Singing in Spanish). MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: We are listening to - well, I wish I could tell you what we're listening to. I don't know who it is becaus...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Another story now. The Coliseo is the biggest concert hall in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Now, since Hurricane Maria devastated the island a month ago, the hall has become the center of a massive effort to feed tens of thousands o...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A wearable camera is increasingly a routine part of police officers' uniforms. That's despite a shortage of solid research on how the technology affects policing. Now a large study in the nation's capital has turned up some unexpec...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The world Philip Pullman created is back, in his hands and now ours. His Dark Materials trilogy, which began more than 20 years ago with a book called The Golden Compass is set in a world ruled by a theocratic overlords called The...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The fires in Northern California have reminded many Americans of the courage, the heroism of the men and women who fight fires in forests and wilderness. A film called Only The Brave is based on the true story of the 19 Granite Mou...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Navigating the world of young adult literature is becoming a fraught adventure. The latest skirmish started when critics of the yet to be published novel American Heart took to Twitter to denounce the book for cultural insensitivit...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Barry Blitt drew his first cover for The New Yorker back in 1992, and ever since, he's been skewering politicians of all stripes. Barack and Michelle Obama fist bumping - that was Blitt. Donald Trump prancing in a tiara and a...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Fires in California, hurricanes and flooding in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico - a devastating season of natural disasters for the U.S. And it comes just as a series of other catastrophes have threatened millions of people around t...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Fires in California, hurricanes and flooding in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico - a devastating season of natural disasters for the U.S. And it comes just as a series of other catastrophes have threatened millions of people around t...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Beck is back. His last big public moment was a couple of years ago at the Grammys, when he was accepting his award for album of the year. The presenter was Prince. (SOUNDBITE OF 57TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS) PRINCE: And the winn...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Prototypes of President Trump's proposed border wall are going up near San Diego. Each prototype is a little different. You can see the photos. One is a 30-foot-high slab of concrete and steel, another is a 30-foot-high slab of s...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Actress Gabrielle Union started off playing teenagers on TV in the 1990s. Now she stars in the BET show Being Mary Jane, playing the role of a powerful cable news anchor who is equally fierce in her personal life. (SOUNDBITE OF T...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Let me take you back to a day in July 2014 when a man named Eric Garner was stopped by two cops on the street in Staten Island. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) ERIC GARNER: I'm minding my business, officer. I'm minding my b...
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: And it's Friday, which is when we hear from StoryCorps. Maggie Marquez and Jessi Silva grew up in the town of Marfa, Texas in the 1950s. And we have their story. In the 50s, Marfa's schools were segregated. L...
