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Helen Oyeyemi's new novel is a no-holds-barred mashup of Agatha Christie-style mystery oddities like mongoose genealogy, kidnapped gaming champions and a woman who chokes on emeralds in her sleep.

Part of President Biden's infrastructure plan aims to promote racial equity. Professor Deborah Archer says highway planners in the mid-20th century sometimes purposefully destroyed Black communities.

Voting advocates in Texas are pressuring companies to speak out against new voting measures before the bills make it through the state legislature.

In Morgan Jerkins' novel, a family of Black women has a gift; they're born with a caul, a layer over their skin that protects them from harm. They can share and sell the caul — which brings trouble.

What if a child doesn't share a parent's ambition? Kaitlyn Greenidge's novel is inspired by the life of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney-Steward, the third Black woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S.

As the state weighs legislation that could help expand access to doulas for expecting mothers, birth workers from minority communities worry new standards could leave them on the outside looking in.

New Castle County announced its plan to reopen libraries to the public next week. Libraries statewide were closed to the public throughout most of the…

A vigil in Chicago is planned tonight for a 13-year-old boy who was killed by police at the end of March. City officials say the shooting death of Adam Toledo was captured on a police body camera.

"Once you pass through the door, there's no more COVID," a man told a visitor to one exclusive pop-up dining spot. The high-priced menu included Champagne and foie gras.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Fulton County Commissioner Khadijah Abdur-Rahman, who supports a boycott of businesses in Georgia over new voting restrictions.