In 'Patti Cake$,' An Aspiring Rap Artist Reaches For The Stars DWANE BROWN, HOST: For dreamers, there are few places on earth that beckon like New York City. And it's especially tempting for those on the other side of the Hudson River, in New Jersey....
In 'Patti Cake$,' An Aspiring Rap Artist Reaches For The Stars DWANE BROWN, HOST: For dreamers, there are few places on earth that beckon like New York City. And it's especially tempting for those on the other side of the Hudson River, in New Jersey....
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: If you've seen footage of white nationalists marching over the last couple of weeks, you've probably noticed that they're mostly young and male. But reporter Seyward Darby found that there are some influential women in the...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: And this is the Call-In. Race is hard to talk about. And in the wake of Charlottesville, there's a renewed intensity behind those conversations. And this week, you shared racially charged social interactions that you've exp...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: President Trump's reaction to the violence in Charlottesville last week seemed to change by the day. He's far from being the first president to struggle with his response to the country's racial divisions. (SOUNDBITE OF MUS...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In our final installment on how communities around the world are adjusting to climate change, we go to India. Pollution there from the burning of fossil fuels is encouraging the spread of solar energy. But as NPR's Julie Mc...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Today is Steve Bannon's last day as President Trump's chief strategist. Bannon was the populist architect of Trump's election victory last year. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders described his departure as a mutual agreem...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested hundreds of parents who are in the country illegally. They are suspected of paying smugglers to bring their children to the U.S. Federal officials say those parents are putting the...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: When a Nigerian woman named Yejide wants to become pregnant, she breastfeeds a goat on top of the mountain of jaw dropping miracles. Ayobami Adebayo's novel Stay With Me begins in the political turmoil of Nigeria in the 1980s but a...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Marjorie Prime is a science fiction film, sort of, but without explosions, laser weapons or fire-breathing robots and mythical creatures. As the film opens, Lois Smith plays an elderly woman who's getting to know the lifelike holog...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Hell's Kitchen has for a long time been pop culture shorthand for gritty New York City. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, JESSICA JONES) KRYSTEN RITTER: (As Jessica Jones) Do you know any drug dealers? MIKE COLTER: (As Luke Cage) I own a ba...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: On Tuesday afternoon, three days after clashes between white nationalists and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, President Trump took questions from reporters, and he insisted that both sides were to blame for the violence. (...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Nazis don't always look like bad guys in funny helmets. The Nazis and other bigots in khaki slacks and bright polo shirts who marched in Charlottesville chanted racist and anti-Semitic slogans I'd rather not repeat on a Saturday -...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This week's music moment might sound especially welcome right about now. It's a melodic meditation on peace. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS LOVE SWEET LOVE) THE ISLEY BROTHERS: (Singing) What the world needs now is...
A Return To The Rosebud Reservation Finds Tough Times Have Gotten Tougher SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This summer, NPR reporters are going home, back to the communities where their families are from, to see what's changed. NPR's Kirk Siegler travels back to t...
