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Host Michel Martin and editor Ammad Omar crack open the listener inbox for backtalk. This week, listeners tweet about online activism, and education.

Jay Dockendorf's new film presents a day in the life of two gay African-American teens, who also happen to be devout Muslims. Critic David Edelstein calls Naz & Maalik "excitingly fresh."

A chemical spill earlier this year tainted the drinking water for residents throughout the Charleston region. NPR's Arun Rath talks to resident Nakeysha Bennett, whose son was born just two weeks after the spill.

A group of advocates say a state law that helps ensure employment opportunities for people with disabilities is in need of an overhaul.Under New York’s…

A team effort to encourage more youth participation in sports is expanding and going nationwide. And one of the institutions that helped roll out a plan…

For more than a century the Chicago Defender has chronicled Black life in America. After Wednesday it will cease its print editions.

Despite the advancements delivered by Title IX legislation over the last 50 years, girls still participate in sports less than boys and the disparity…

Vernadine Hinton has lived at Piotr Stadnitski Gardens, a 100-unit affordable senior housing complex on Buffalo’s East Side, for 15 years. She said she’s…

The 2020 election will actually end in 2021. That's when two U.S. Senate seats in Georgia will be decided by runoff elections that will determine which party controls the chamber.

The Warm Springs Reservation in Oregon has been without clean drinking water for years, the just-passed infrastructure bill promises to fix that.