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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with South African musician Nakhane about their new album, Bastard Jargon. Percussive and made for the dancefloor, it also probes deep cultural and political questions.

'Through Positive Eyes,' an exhibit of 145 photos, is opening in Durban as the International AIDS Conference begins.

How Sotiris Missailidis, head of R&D in Brazil's vaccine agency, used the COVID crisis to push through a game-changing effort for middle-income countries to invent their own mRNA vaccine.

A hospice in Uganda asked itself: Can we do more than ease the pain of dying? Can we actually prevent deaths from cervical and breast cancer?

The World Monuments Fund list seeks to raise awareness and funds to help preserve the sites it spotlights. Africa's Swahili Coast, Maine's lighthouses and Buddhist grottoes in China are also in peril.

The Justice Department found that the department violated the Constitution with discriminatory policing practices. It found blacks disproportionately targeted by the police and the justice system.

Facebook whistleblower testifies on Capitol Hill. A broken pipeline off California's coast spewed crude into the ocean. A huge number of children were sexually abused in the French Catholic Church.

With immunity ruling, the Supreme Court is again the focus of politics. Hurricane Beryl is so strong, in part because of record high ocean temps. Catholic Church names its first millennial saint.

Landscape architect Walter Hood transforms street corners and town squares, often in underserved communities, into spaces that honor communal histories. He is one of 26 MacArthur fellows this year.

Researchers studying the wreckage of the Clotilda, which has been buried in mud on the Alabama coast since 1860, say that most of the wooden schooner is still largely in one piece.