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NIL contracts are changing the landscape of all collegiate sports

Array — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 21:27:00 +0000

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Stewart Mandel, editor-in-chief for college football at The Athletic, about how Name, Image and Likeness contracts are changing the landscape of all collegiate sports.

What’s really behind America’s ‘free speech problem’

Mon, 28 Mar 2022 21:15:58 +0000

A New York Times op-ed recently reigned a debate over the right to free speech. But, critics quickly debunked the real problem happening.

Listen: How One D.C. Library Has Fared Throughout The Pandemic

Amanda Michelle Gomez, Kayla Hewitt — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 21:08:06 +0000

The Shaw library has become a one stop shop for COVID-19 tests and information on the virus.

Shanghai is on lockdown under China’s ‘zero COVID’ policy

John Ruwitch — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 20:41:00 +0000

As omicron spreads in China, one of its largest cities — Shanghai — has been placed on lockdown under the government's "zero COVID" policy.

Mothers of Gynecology honored in Black maternal health conference in Montgomery

Cristela Guerra — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 20:41:00 +0000

Artist Michelle Browder's sculpture of enslaved women who were experimented on by "father of gynecology" Dr. Sims was highlighted in a conference on Black women and maternal health in Montgomery, Ala.

Operation Lone Star touts big numbers. But are they real?

Array — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 20:41:00 +0000

It's been a year since Texas launched Operation Lone Star, Gov. Greg Abbott's hardline border crackdown on undocumented immigration. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with reporter Lomi Kriel about the project.

Florida Gov. DeSantis has signed ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill

Greg Allen — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 20:41:00 +0000

Florida's governor signed a bill that bans instruction dealing with sexual orientation kindergarten through third grade. Dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by critics, it was ridiculed at the Oscars.

Former tour guide in Lviv starts over in Germany

Array — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 20:41:00 +0000

NPR's Ailsa Chang follows up with Ivanka Gonak who was a tour guide in Lviv, Ukraine, before the Russian invasion, and has now fled to Germany.

Examining the marine heatwave experience last year in the Gulf of Maine

Fred Bever — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 18:42:00 +0000

New research finds the Gulf of Maine hit record hot temperatures in 2021. It's warming three times faster than the world's oceans, and is already seeing major disruption to its ocean ecosystems.

In Case You Missed It: Civic Education 101

Mon, 28 Mar 2022 18:28:32 +0000

We talk with experts about the state of civic education — and bring you a 101 lesson about the tenets of civic life.