Month: February 2025

NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with KPCC listener Seth Bowling of Long Beach, Calif., and puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

Black history happens every day, and the stories from NPR listeners are good examples of that. From becoming the first Black mayor of a town to singing music about change, these stories matter.

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This year brings memoirs from more than a dozen famous names — from Brooke Shields and Dawn Staley to Bill Belichick and Lionel Ritchie.

Why is it that a list of young A-list stars contains so few Black actors?

This week, we celebrate one last President’s Day with special guests Mark Ronson, Billy Porter, Tara Dower, John Leguizamo, and James Marsden

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Indigenous fire stewardship practices have existed for millennia in California. A new art exhibition in Los Angeles challenges visitors to rethink their own relationships with fire.

Each episode of the new Max series covers one hour in a single day in a busy emergency department. The show manages to feel sympathetic to the hospital staff and to the patients in their care.

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Students in an elementary school broadcasting club in California are among the youngest winners of NPR’s Student Podcast Challenge.

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This week, we celebrate one last President’s Day with special guests Mark Ronson, Billy Porter, Tara Dower, John Leguizamo, and James Marsden

(Image credit: Dimitrios Kambouris)