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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Michael R. Jackson, a composer, playwright and lyricist who won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for his musical A Strange Loop. The musical is opening on Broadway Tuesday.

Harvard University has committed $100 million to redress its ties to slavery. The University says the wealth used to found the school came from wealthy slave owners.

Pfizer and BioNTech are poised to formally ask the Food and Drug Administration to authorize the first COVID booster shot for kids ages 5 to 11.

Liberal activists are hoping to use part of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution to keep Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene off the ballot in Georgia. We look at the history of the provision.

On Wednesday, SpaceX launches the next NASA astronauts to the International Space Station — including Jessica Watkins, who is to become the first Black woman on a long-duration mission.

The Trump-era policy required asylum seekers to wait for their immigration hearing in Mexico. The Biden administration suspended the program, but was blocked by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Danica Roem is a trailblazing figure as the first openly trans person elected to a state legislature in the U.S. Her new "memoir-meets-manifesto" explores her personal and political journey.

In Atlanta, leaders are working to build a memorial at an old brick factory site to honor victims of convict leasing. After the Civil War, thousands of Black men were forced to work at the factory.

The rusty patched bumble bee is endangered and losing some of its last habitat, an Illinois prairie. A multi-million dollar airport expansion is stalled because of a last-minutes sighting of the bees.