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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with poet Tracy K. Smith about a new book she co-edited, There's a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis, reflecting on 2020.

The state law bans most abortions after 15 weeks. The lower courts blocked its enforcement, finding it in conflict with Roe v. Wade and subsequent abortion decisions.

A scholarship program named after late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and Constance Baker Motley, the first Black woman to be a federal judge, is trying to foster a new generation of lawyers.

This year's high school winner in the NPR Student Podcast Challenge tackles the complexities of her Indian-American identity.

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, about schools reopening in the fall while coronavirus cases continue to rise in some areas.

After the murder conviction of Derek Chauvin, Black police officers in America are considering what's changed and what hasn't in the year since George Floyd's death.

A woman with agoraphobia becomes embroiled in her neighbor's drama in a new thriller based on Dan Mallory's novel. Adams is very good — but the movie doesn't prove entirely worthy of her.

For Camille A. Brown, choreography unlocked a new way to understand her power as a dancer. She explains how social dance — and its origins — have allowed her to celebrate her creative identity.

Fourteen years after her first album as St. Vincent, Annie Clark makes a sharp turn in time with Daddy's Home, a '70s rock revue that nails the sound, if not the spirit, of its influences.

Young and on her own in New York, a bright-eyed Julaina Glass arrived in Beau McCall's Harlem apartment building. Though it took time, Glass endeared herself to McCall. "You're a part of me," he said.