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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with former U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings about President Biden's plan for tuition-free community college.

A new anime series on Netflix brings a little-known figure from Japanese feudal history to the small screen: Yasuke. A Black samurai portrayed as an aging, stoic loner reflecting on his past.

Firefighters in some major cities aren't being vaccinated at the rate of other essential workers. But Los Angeles has managed to reach one of the highest rates in the U.S. due to targeted outreach.

The CDC's relaxed mask guidance is a major pandemic milestone. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Dr. Barbara Ducatman of Michigan's Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak about how the pandemic looks there.

Parents who have enrolled their children in these studies say the risk is worth it for the greater good.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Los Angeles Times correspondent Nabih Bulos in Amman, Jordan, about the authorities' claim of a plot to destabilize the kingdom.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Adriana Beltrán about what lessons the Biden administration can take from past US attempts to slow migration from Central America.

Poet Franny Choi tells NPR's Michel Martin about some of her favorite listener submitted poems for National Poetry Month.

Multiple people are dead after a boat carrying dozens of migrants capsized and broke up off the coast of San Diego Sunday. Incidents like this are on the rise since construction of the border wall.

To mark the 50th anniversary of All Things Considered, NPR special correspondent Susan Stamberg recalls a moment from the program's first decade.

In honor of NPR's 50th birthday, we asked listeners who reached that milestone for some life advice. Hundreds answered.