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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with comedian Roy Wood, Jr., about his new podcast, "Road to Rickwood," about the legendary ballfield in Birmingham, Ala., that hosted a major league ballgame this month.

A new study counts the human health costs from increasingly costly and dangerous extreme weather in the U.S.

Garnell Whitfield Jr.'s Buffalo mayoral campaign to run as an independent candidate in the general election has been blocked by the Erie County Board of Elections.

The 68-year-old Black retired Marine was killed by police who were responding to a medical alert.

Marc Bamuthi Joseph, a young poet from San Francisco, revisits Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream, and laments the distortion of his message in the current age. His poem is titled, Savage Inequalities.

Eric Trump Jr. testified for a second day on Thursday after his brother, Donald Trump Jr. Both are defendants in the trial that accuses them of committing fraud.

This year, 14-year-old Stanley Robinson wonw the 2026 Jr. Iditarod, a smaller version of the iconic Iditarod for teens held last weekend. His older sister, Emily Robinson, is a four-time winner of the Jr. Iditarod.

The artist JR pastes massive photographs on surfaces ranging from the Louvre to the courtyard floor of a supermax prison. JR explores how his monumental work inspires hope, change and connection.

Naomi Klein continues. Founder of the American Film Institute, George Stevens, Jr. The 1952 classic western Shane, directed by his father George Stevens has been reissued on DVD, with new special production features. George Stevens, Jr. was a production assistant on the film.

In Atlanta today, Martin Luther King Jr.'s family is marking the King holiday with a new push to change Georgia's state flag. Opponents have long argued the flag's Confederate battle emblem is racist. NPR's Kathy Lohr reports.