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After hearing from a low-wage worker in California, NPR's A Martinez talks to Rev. William Barber of the Poor People's Campaign about why the federal minimum wage hasn't gone up in more than a decade.

A federally-funded clinic in rural Mississippi embodies the history of community health centers in the U.S., and shows how these safety-net clinics can help minority patients during the pandemic.

Oppenheimer led all films with 13 nominations. Barbie's Greta Gerwig was overlooked for best director. Many first-time actors were recognized, and international films performed well.

Just 18 facilities were converted into Rural Emergency Hospitals so far. Advocates and lawmakers say tweaks to the law are needed to widen the reach and keep health care in rural communities.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with historian William Hogeland about little-known facts he learned about founding father Alexander Hamilton while researching his new book, "The Hamilton Scheme."

With back-to-school season looming on the horizon, here's what parents and caretakers need to know.

The Department of Veterans Affairs embraced telehealth, especially for mental health care, in recent years. Now, staffers hired to give therapy and other health care remotely are ordered to do it from offices lacking privacy, VA clinicians told NPR.

Oliver Sacks, the acclaimed British-American neurologist and author, has died of cancer at the age of 82.

Local nonprofits have been delivering water directly to some residents, but the groups are still working on scaling up to dealing with a problem that stretches across the city.

Royal beat reporters Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand have written a sympathetic new book on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family.

Updated Sunday, May 24, 2020 Gov. Roy Cooper's Phase 2 reopening took effect Friday at 5 p.m., letting North Carolinians sit down for a pint or glass of…

http://66.225.205.104/SG20090924.mp3The topic of illegal immigration stirs strong opinions. From opposing sides of the debate, there are emotional…

Two new books published Tuesday tell the story of Harlem. The first features the white women involved in the Harlem Renaissance. And the second profiles three black female artists during World War II.

The Legend Of Tarzantries to reinvent the story as an indictment of colonialism, but it lacks the wit or liveliness of the Tarantino revisionist histories it seems to be trying to emulate.

As a late entrant in the Democratic presidential primary, Michael Bloomberg is not campaigning in the first primary states and is instead marshaling his billions of dollars into advertising.

Ayesha Rascoe talks to Dolen Perkins-Valdez about her new novel "Take My Hand," which fictionalizes a 1973 involuntary sterilization case, and about why she's drawn to history as a novelist.

Authorities on Monday announced an arrest in the unsolved murders of two teenage girls — a drugstore worker who has been living in the same small Indiana community where their bodies were found.

Black gun ownership dates back to before the country's founding. In "Armed Doesn't Mean Dangerous," photographer Christian K. Lee captures the growing number of Black Americans who own firearms.

The State Department said the victims, who were found alive after days in captivity, are back on U.S. soil. Officials said they are in the process of returning the remains of two others to the U.S.

Yale's William Nordhaus has been running the numbers on Earth's climate troubles. He says charging a fair price for any dumping of carbon dioxide into the air is a cost-effective solution. But at least half the planet must cooperate, his math suggests, or it will be all pain, no gain.