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Firefighter James Rae loves fried fish, but after a health scare, a colleague convinced him to eat healthier. Now Rae and his colleagues at Austin Firehouse No. 2 feast on soy-cheese pizza and vegetarian enchiladas.

The stagehands' strike on Broadway shut down more than two dozen shows over the weekend. Producers say the union forces them to hire people who do little or no work at wages that can hover around $100,000 a year. Union representatives say they are willing to offer some concessions.

The nation is observing the birthday of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On Monday, there will be a ceremony at the new memorial on the National Mall. On Sunday, King's real birthday, his family, civil rights leaders and those who wanted to honor what he stood for, turned out to talk about his legacy.

A new public art monument dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King was unveiled Friday. It immediately drew consternation and jeers as well as plaudits.

Exposure to chemicals is listed as a potential driver of chronic disease in children in a new MAHA report, but critics say RJK Jr. has backpedaled on pledges to reduce pesticides used in agriculture.

Host Michel Martin talks to a roundtable of activists and innovators about the future of technology, and recruiting the next generation of African-Americans and Latinos into the tech field.

First in a series on environmental justice issues.The scent of exhaust fumes fill the air on a mid-January afternoon. Cars, trucks and buses zip back and…

Rodney Smith Jr. is driving across the U.S. cutting grass for the elderly, people who are disabled, veterans and single mothers.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with former U.S. education secretary and current president of the Education Trust John King Jr. about the long-term effects of school closures on children in the U.S.

Five years after Michael Brown was killed by police in Ferguson, many African Americans in the St. Louis area remain frustrated by racial inequity. But some see signs of reforms taking hold.