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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with filmmaker Spike Lee about his excitement that his favorite basketball team, the New York Knicks, making it to the NBA finals.

Decades of disinvestment in a predominantly Black St. Louis neighborhood left the community especially vulnerable to last year's devastating tornadoes. Now, some worry homeownership rates will drop.

If you’re a San Francisco voter, you’ve probably been asked to sign a ballot initiative to “save Muni.” Today, those signatures made it to City Hall.

The upcoming FIFA World Cup is prompting the FBI to ramp up training for law enforcement on how to stop a growing threat: malicious drones in U.S. skies.

The history of a union fort in Tennessee is getting an update to include the story of the Black laborers who built it.

The U.S. plans to try to keep Ebola out by keeping citizens who were potentially exposed in Kenya. This has some in Kenya frustrated and others worried it will deter aid workers from helping.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson about his organization's Out of Bounds campaign that draws a connection between Black student athletes and voting rights.

According to a new poll from the Public Policy Institute of California a majority of California voters say they support a one-time tax on the state's billionaires.

Do new strikes affect a potential deal to end the war with Iran? NPR's Scott Detrow breaks it down with NPR International Correspondent Aya Batrawy and NPR Pentagon Correspondent Tom Bowman.

With less than a week to go before California's primary election, a new poll shows a pair of front-runners in the race for governor.

In South Africa, a nonprofit organization is rebooting a popular soap opera that once dramatized and educated viewers about HIV and AIDS. It's only part of their feminist mission.

Refugees cram roads from southern Lebanon as Israeli airstrikes target Hezbollah in the city of Tyre.