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Journalist Jim Newton's new book, Justice For All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made, looks at the life of the Supreme Court Justice who presided over such landmark decisions as Brown v. Board of Education. Newton is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, sharing in the awards given to the Los Angeles Times for coverage of the Los Angeles riots in 1992 and the 1994 earthquake.

Roots co-founder Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson shares his Christmas playlist, which includes songs by DRAM, James Brown, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. Originally broadcast Dec. 21, 2022.

Taxidermists, muralists and a crew of others have spent years sprucing up the Hall of North American Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. On Saturday, the hall reopens to the public. Weekend Edition host Scott Simon talks with curator Ross MacPhee about the project.

Florida International University's medical school has made community-based health care a central part of its curriculum. With home visits and a mobile health clinic, students connect with families in neighborhoods where medical care is scarce.

Actor Chadwick Boseman has died of cancer. He played James Brown, Jackie Robinson and Thurgood Marshall, but may have been best known for starring in Marvel's Black Panther.

The helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant and eight others in January has highlighted a decades-old problem in aviation: pilots continuing flights into bad weather rather than landing.

In Youngstown, Ohio, The Vindicator stops publication on Saturday after 150 years, signaling one more gut punch to a struggling city. With a news desert, who will guard the civic henhouse?

A battle is being fought over who owns viral dance moves on Internet video apps. Black and Brown creators on Dubsmash say TikTok creators are profiting off their dance moves.

It's been three years since the shooting on an unarmed black teen sparked protests in Ferguson, Mo. We hear from a young activist in St. Louis who was a student back then, how she feels things have changed today.

During an informational forum Monday in Newburgh about PFOS contamination found in the city’s drinking water supply, federal, state and local officials…