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The 2020 Tiny Desk Contest closed for entries on April 27. As we comb through entries to find our winner, we're sharing songs that help us feel connected in this time of isolation and uncertainty.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Brown University President Christina Paxson about why reopening college and university campuses for the fall semester should be a "national priority."

A public Zoom call hosted by the Legislative Black Caucus Wednesday was hacked with a racial slur, a swastika and porn. The info session was meant to…

Even though Vinton County, Ohio, hasn't had high infection rates of the coronavirus, social restrictions have made it harder to keep drug users and their children safe, says Trecia Kimes-Brown.

We get a measure of how much damage COVID-19 has done to the economy. President Trump orders meat processors to stay open. And, the government terminates funding for a coronavirus research project.

In this lockdown, low-wage workers have been publicly declared "essential" — up there with doctors and nurses. But the workers say their pay, benefits and protections don't reflect it.

Growing up in San Francisco in the '70s, Alia Volz's family ran a booming weed-laced brownie business. "I had this understanding of my family as an outlaw family from the very beginning," she says.

San Francisco hopes to expand testing of all residents to evaluate the presence of COVID-19. It is starting with the Mission District, a hard-hit predominantly Latino neighborhood.

The trial comes after Florida voters in 2018 overwhelmingly approved an amendment to restore voting rights to most people with felony convictions. Then state lawmakers tried to scale the law back.

Author Bonnie Tsui reminds us that humankind once sprang from — and still seeks — water. "Even if we can't get in the water right now," she says, "the ocean will be waiting for us."