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An epidemiologist says the island has been lucky so far, but needs to stop the virus at its source — where mosquitoes breed.

In 1965, after suffering a stroke, Daisy Bates retired from national civil rights activism. In 1968, she moved into a mobile home in Mitchellville, an…

Mifflin Wistar Gibbs was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1823. In a varied career he worked as a carpenter, campaigned alongside abolitionist and…

Joseph Robert Booker was born in Helena, Arkansas, in 1893. He graduated from Arkansas Baptist College in Little Rock in 1914 and gained a law degree from…

During Reconstruction and after, when African Americans first held the right to vote, a number of African Americans were elected to the Arkansas General…

Ambivalence about refugees runs high in Denmark. Danes are critical of a new law requiring police to take cash and valuables from asylum seekers. But they're also nervous about rising refugee numbers.

NPR's David Greene offers Rachel Martin analysis on how Republican presidential hopefuls are faring in Iowa.

In 1965, the U.S. faced an epidemic of German measles that, like the Zika outbreak, was linked to birth defects. It changed the way this country talked about abortion.

A new, live TV performance of the hit musical Grease airs this weekend. Rachel Martin talks about it with Linda Holmes, host of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour.

As the presidential primaries kick off, Rachel Martin speaks with three young Republicans about what they want from the candidates in this election and for their party in the future.