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NPR poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander's latest community poem started with a request to consider what follows after the words "I dream a world."

Bayard Rustin was one of the most consequential architects of the civil rights movement in the '60s you may have never heard of. NPR's podcast Throughline has this profile.

A Brazilian priest has made the mega-city of São Paulo pay attention to its homeless population's needs.

The Tops Markets on Jefferson Avenue remains closed as the company – and the community – continue to grapple with the pain of last weekend’s mass shooting. While the community has rallied to provide food and other donations in the interim, the shutdown shines a light on the challenge to acquire healthy food in many East Side neighborhoods.

In just 7 years, Peanut the Squirrel went from being an anonymous street rodent, to a famous influencer, to a billion dollar cryptocurrency. His story is a parable of the modern attention economy.

Noel King talks to former federal prosecutor Chuck Rosenberg about the ongoing trial of Paul Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman. Monday is the fifth day of the trial.

Christopher Ruddy, CEO of conservative media company Newsmax, talks about President Trump's decision to remove Anthony Scaramucci as White House communications director less than 2 weeks after being named to the job.

Students of color at a high school, a law school and two universities have objected to the way historical murals have portrayed Native Americans and African Americans.

Ben Affleck directs a movie that tries (and fails) to squeeze dramatic tension out of the origins of the Air Jordan. Matt Damon and Viola Davis star in this soulless dramatization.

An influential Harlem church is trying to help the National Institutes of Health overcome reluctance by some African-Americans to participate in a medical study of 1 million diverse Americans.