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This Friday's Feature of the Week: A Singing Army: Zilphia Horton and the Highlander Folk SchoolJoe Kendrick spoke with Asheville, NC author Kim Ruehl about her new book A Singing Army: Zilphia Horton and the Highlander Folk School, which tells the story of the activist and musician who helped shape the labor and civil rights movements from the 1930s until her untimely death in the 1950s.

NPR's Scott Simon remembers children's book author Eric Carle, who died this week at the age of 91. His experiences as a teenager in Germany during World War II influenced his art.

The nation's homeless population is expected to rise in the coming months, especially if a federal eviction moratorium ends in June.

One small startup in Portland, Ore., is helping place former gang members and others involved in gun violence into well-paying green energy jobs.

When author Jewell Parker Rhodes tried to publish a novel retelling the story of the Tulsa Race Massacre, she found that not everyone was ready to reckon with the city's painful, traumatic history.

GOP politics in Ohio has changed in the Trump era. And a trip to the state reveals some mixed views among Republicans about the outsized influence Trump retains in the state.

Zakiya Dalila Harris drew on her book-world background for her new novel, about a Black woman in publishing who thinks, at first, that she has a new ally when her company hires another Black woman.

In Ben Brashares and Elizabeth Bergeland's charming new picture book, a discontented young boy finds a new way to carry on his family's legacy of awesomeness — and without hurting any bugs.

Watch the Australian singer-songwriter perform three new songs from her upcoming full-length debut, Beware of the Dogs.

In the Amazon rainforest, one species of monkey changed their territorial call to better communicate with a competing species.