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Ten years ago, award-winning producer Dave Isay teamed up with LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman to create two gritty, groundbreaking portraits of urban life. Today, Isay presents the story of Yanier "Blak" Moore, a former drug dealer turned author who was first discovered by Jones and Newman during their reporting in the Chicago housing projects.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Graeme Wood, staff writer at The Atlantic, about his profile of Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.

Nearly 600 rhinos have been killed this year despite extensive efforts by South Africa and other African nations to protect the animal.

A trade deal allowing Chinese investment in more service sectors was the provocation. But the real issue is Taiwan's sense that it's losing its identity and being overwhelmed by its powerful neighbor.

As part of our ongoing coverage of the civil rights movement and the summer of 1963, NPR Music has created a stream of more than 100 songs inspired by that era.

Some economists say other figures paint a brighter picture of the British economy.

At least 12 people were killed and 55 injured in twin bombings near a revered shrine, Syrian state media reports. The Sayyida Zeinab shrine is seen as a symbolic stronghold of the regime.

NCAA spending per Division I and national championship participants was $4,285 for men and $2,588 for women in the 2018-19 season. The gap is even larger for single-gender sports, the report shows.

Paleontologists made quite a find this week in Utah: a new species of raptor dinosaur. The ancient creature, a meat-eater, was small and fast, with talon-like toes.

Announcements in three more states on Sunday brought the number of Americans who are currently under — or soon to be under — orders to stay home to more than 101 million.