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Liberal arts colleges are trying hard to attract minority students and faculty. But what happens when they get on campus? Host Michel Martin talks to the dean and chief diversity officer of Middlebury College, Shirley Collado, and her former student Sheyenne Brown, about initiatives to make schools more inclusive for people of color.

Laura Dern stars in a new TV movie on HBO called The Tale. It follows a documentary filmmaker who realizes in her 40s that an experience she thought was a romance when she was 13 was actually sexual abuse.

More people have died from unsafe use of generators after hurricanes than storm surge since 2017. The National Hurricane Center wants to focus attention on generator safety.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Dr. Laura Riley, OBGYN-in-Chief at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center, about the recent rise in maternal mortality among Black women.

New Jersey has banned drivers from pumping their own gas since 1949. But high gas prices and a shortage of station attendants have renewed calls to lift the ban.

NPR's Lynn Neary taps three book critics — Laura Miller, Ron Charles and Rigoberto Gonzalez — to get their picks for the best summer reading.

Hurricane Helene interrupted the famous Ginger Bread House competition in Asheville this year, but the enthusiastic cookie home builders are getting a chance to show off their creations around town.

SCOTT TALKS WITH PETER GURALNICK, AUTHOR OF "LAST TRAIN TO MEMPHIS--THE RISE OF ELVIS PRESLEY" (LITTLE BROWN). THE BOOK TRACES THE FIRST 24 YEARS OF PRESLEY'S LIFE.

WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT -- AND A SPECIAL GUEST -- TELL US WHY THE PENDING MOVE OF THE CLEVELAND BROWNS TO BALTIMORE LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER NEGATIVE WATERSHED IN MAJOR LEAGUE SPORTS.

SCOTT TALKS WITH SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT ABOUT THE DEAL THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE STRUCK WITH THE CITY OF CLEVELAND. THE BROWNS ARE LEAVING THE CITY AND THE LEAGUE IS COMPENSATING CLEVELAND FOR ITS LOSS.