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As NPR's Southwest correspondent based in Austin, Texas, John Burnett covers immigration, border affairs, Texas news and other national assignments. In 2018, 2019 and again in 2020, he won national Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio-Television News Directors Association for continuing coverage of the immigration beat. In 2020, Burnett along with other NPR journalists, were finalists for a duPont-Columbia Award for their coverage of the Trump Administration's Remain in Mexico program. In December 2018, Burnett was invited to participate in a workshop on Refugees, Immigration and Border Security in Western Europe, sponsored by the RIAS Berlin Commission.

Groups connected to the fossil fuel industry are trying to shape an international treaty to cut plastic pollution. And oil- and gas-producing nations are at the negotiating table.

Stephen Thompson is a writer, editor and reviewer for NPR Music, where he speaks into any microphone that will have him and appears as a frequent panelist on All Songs Considered. Since 2010, Thompson has been a fixture on the NPR roundtable podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour, which he created and developed with NPR correspondent Linda Holmes. In 2008, he and Bob Boilen created the NPR Music video series Tiny Desk Concerts, in which musicians perform at Boilen's desk. (To be more specific, Thompson had the idea, which took seconds, while Boilen created the series, which took years. Thompson will insist upon equal billing until the day he dies.)

This week's Heat Check selects feature an R&B newbie enlisting a legend, a spaced-out rapper deciding to go it alone, artists from Compton, London and Nigeria refusing complacency and more.

Isabella Gomez Sarmiento is a production assistant with Weekend Edition.

“Sunflowers and Soot: Tales from Eastern Ukraine,” to be presented by Anastasiia Malakhova, will explore the historical and cultural distinctiveness of Eastern Ukraine, and compare it to other regions of that country. Malakhova is a Fulbright graduate student in Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte whose work explores themes of memory, home, displacement, and cultural identity. She draws inspiration from both Ukrainian and Appalachian literary traditions and will share her personal journey of living in exile after the occupation of her hometown, reflecting on the impact of displacement. Additionally, she will explore Ukrainian traditions and customs, along with the rich dynamics of bilingualism in Ukraine.┃capitalismstudies.charlotte.edu
Tuesday, May 13; 5:30 p.m.; Independent Picture House, 4237 Raleigh Street, Charlotte; Please Register

This Kentucky Derby day was delayed because of the pandemic, now demands are being made that Churchill Downs use this moment to make lasting changes and to take a stand against racial injustice.

A host of Division 1 games gets underway in men's college basketball Thursday. That play begins a massive national overdose of basketball that will continue for several weeks.The competition will be held at four sites.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump about the sentencing of Brett Hankison, the former police officer involved in the raid that killed Breonna Taylor.

The USDA has hired people to help small communities tap the complex web of programs for money they need to address big problems. But that help is only available in select areas.

A new anthology features poetry and stories from Appalachian writers, including an Eastern Band of the Cherokee author, who were caught in a flood in Hindman, Ky., two years ago.

Delta-8 is a hemp product designed to get users high, but misleading labels or added chemicals have caused people to get sick. And a lack of federal regulation or guidance has states stepping in.

A brief — and camisole — history behind the conflict over labeling products that are made in the West Bank.

Jennifer Worsham is the production assistant for Charlotte Talks.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to David Meyer, a sociology professor at the University of California, Irvine, about the historical use of the sit-in and its origins as a form of political expression.

NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with documentary filmmaker Pamela Yates about Guatemalan ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt, who was declared mentally unfit for trial Tuesday by Guatemala's forensic authority.

NPR's Tamara Keith talks to Breena Clark about her new novel, Angels Make Their Hope Here. It follows Dossie Bird, a girl who escapes slavery in 1849 and flees to a refuge in New Jersey.

Wasabi nabbed U.S. dogdom's most prestigious prize after winning the big American Kennel Club National Championship in 2019.

Relentless rains have pounded north-central Texas and southwest Oklahoma over the past two weeks. At least 11 people have died. Thousands have scrambled to safety. Fire ants and snakes are the next worry.

A church rents apartments for asylum seekers, who pay the church back after an initial buffer period.