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NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates from the podcast Code Switch talks with journalist Linda Villarosa about how COVID exposed racial disparities in all aspects of the health care system.

Kingston Mayor Steve Noble is urging the Common Council to opt into a housing emergency declaration following the completion of a new rental vacancy study.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Keri Blakinger, author of the new memoir Corrections In Ink, which is about her path from Olympic figure skating dreams, to drug addiction, and then to prison.

Moderate Republicans are organizing in opposition to extremists gaining control of the party.

The changed relations between Putin's Russia and Europe are having ripple effects along Russia's border with the EU, including in a town that had prided itself on good relations with Russia.

Among the small army of workers rebuilding New Orleans, one group in particular stays out of sight: The Brazilians. They tend to sleep in the houses they're gutting, and they're more culturally isolated than the Hispanics. The Brazilian workers describe how multiple layers of subcontractors and "labor agents" stand between them and their American employers, who enjoy deniability about the illegal work force.

New York Times critic Elvis Mitchell talks with Scott Simon about how American movies have dealt with racial issues over the years. This year's Oscar nominee Crash expands the debate beyond black and white.

A federally subsidized telephone service uses the Internet to link deaf and hearing callers, but the service is plagued by pranksters and outright fraud. Even businesses are getting scammed.

China's policy can include imposing massive lockdowns on cities like Shanghai where outbreaks are detected.

In the 1960s, an underground network of women in Chicago called the Jane Collective helped others seeking abortions.