Kelly Mcevers
Simona Mangiante is defending her future husband, George Papadopoulos, and is telling a much different story than the one coming from the White House and from allies of President Trump.
High school students in Iowa might have to take one more exam before receiving their diplomas — a civic test. It’s the same test administered by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to those looking to become U.S. citizens. That’s part of a new bill introduced in the Iowa legislature. NPR’s Kelly McEvers speaks with Rep. Walt Rogers, R-Iowa, about his bill.
The rapper tells stories of loss, love and violence on his new debut album. He speaks with Kelly McEvers about his childhood in Chicago and how he views his responsibility to the city today.
Key’s new Netflix show is about how even in your 40s, you can still make mistakes. The actor tells NPR he never expected to make it in the entertainment industry: “I stumbled up into this,” he says.
Fair warning: There are no actual jazz chickens in Eddie Izzard’s new Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens. But it does provide insight into what makes the acclaimed comedian tick.
The Mexico City singer-songwriter talks to NPR’s Kelly McEvers about her growing pride in her heritage and the importance of introducing younger listeners to Latin American musical history.
When Wenner started Rolling Stone, he says, other publications weren’t taking rock and roll seriously. Since then, the magazine has documented five decades of music, politics and culture.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus says growing up in Washington, D.C., and later living in Los Angeles helped her prepare for her role in the HBO comedy. “You’re selling a brand of yourself,” she says.
The singer-songwriter’s music has long been characterized as melancholy. For her album Mental Illness, she leaned into that stereotype, writing songs that empathize with other people’s struggles.
In the 1990s, Tejano music singer Selena Quintanilla Perez made a rare crossover to mainstream American audiences. The movie Selena debuted two years after her murder.
20 years ago, a low-budget film with a great soundtrack became a huge hit. Now, director Danny Boyle is getting the old (much older, in fact) Trainspotting gang back together for a sequel.
RuPaul is the most recognizable drag queen in America. His hit show, RuPaul’s Drag Race is up for two Emmy Awards as it begins filming its ninth season. But drag, he says, will never be mainstream.
Amanda Chicago Lewis investigated the effect of the War on Drugs on black entrepreneurship in the legal pot industry for six months. NPR’s Kelly McEvers talks to her about what is keeping black people from entering the lucrative legal pot industry.
U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon is urging both sides in the South Sudanese civil war to resolve their differences. In the meantime, some 2 million people are living in limbo in the brutalized nation.
In the latest step toward peace to end South Sudan’s civil war, Vice President Riek Machar agreed to return to the country as long as he’s allowed to bring his own troops to the capital.
Dr. Osama Abo El Ezz is a general surgeon at a hospital in Aleppo, Syria. He says the humanitarian situation is grim and doesn’t believe the cease fire will change anything. Nevertheless, he says he will keep working in Aleppo.
NPR’s Kelly McEvers talks to author Sayed Kashua, an Israeli-Palestinian whose satirical weekly columns in Haaretz newspaper are collected in his new book called Native.
NPR’s Kelly McEvers talks with Brian Katulis, a senior fellow for Middle East policy at the Center for American Progress, about negotiations for helping civilians caught up in the violence in Syria. He says Russia has in effect created a no-fly zone for themselves there, which has made it almost impossible to do anything without Russia’s cooperation.