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Organizers of evacuation flights are pressing the state department to do more to help them get hundreds of people out of Afghanistan. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is pushing back.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Hilma Wolitzer about her collection of short stories, Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket, which illuminates the complexity of motherhood and marriage.

NPR'S Ailsa Chang speaks with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy about the devastation Hurricane Ida brought and what state and federal governments are doing to provide assistance to those affected.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly checks in with Filipe Ribeiro, the Afghanistan representative for Doctors Without Borders, to find out how the organization is doing right now.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with American Academy of Pediatrics President Lee Savio Beers about the mounting pressure to consider emergency use authorization of COVID-19 vaccines for children under 12.

For the first time, a sitting first lady is working a non-White House job. Jill Biden has been teaching for decades. On Tuesday, she headed to her classroom at Northern Virginia Community College.

A: WKAR, your local Michigan Learning Channel station, is presenting a Facebook live virtual event: “MICHIGAN’S GREAT RETURN TO SCHOOL: A STATEWIDE TOWN HALL” on Wednesday, September 8 at 6 pm. This event is designed to empower families with information as partners in their children’s education for the 2021-22 school year.

It’s hardly a surprise that, given the lessons of last year’s disrupted school year, more schools and health departments want to get on board the “Test to Stay” train.

In her new book, All That She Carried, historian Tiya Miles tells the story of an enslaved woman who, upon hearing her child was to be sold off, hastily packed her a bag with a few personal items.

Staples began singing with her family as a teenager. The Staple Singers started out in gospel, but moved over to pop, eventually playing the '69 Harlem Cultural Festival. Originally broadcast in 1989.