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People's Liberty provides funding and mentoring to local civic-minded artists, entrepreneurs and activists so they can turn their ideas to bring positive…

Poet Camille Dungy made her lawn into an eco-friendly pollinator's paradise of native plants. Her memoir links diversifying the landscape and diversifying the voices who write about the natural world.

Keyla "Nunny" Reece was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer at age 39. Photographer Angelica Edwards documented the hardships and moments of joy in Reece's experience with cancer.

We read listener-submitted poems, as NPR's Scott Detrow celebrates National Poetry Month with poet Franny Choi, author of the collection The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On.

Federal officials released prescription histories of hundreds of thousands of doctors and identified the most common and costly drugs. Medicare spent the most on a purple pill for heartburn.

The situation in Iraq poses a critical problem for the United States as the first military advisors hit the ground there; outcomes in primary races this…

A movement recast the second Monday in October as a day to appreciate the history of Indigenous communities. That visibility, say Native Americans, can help us see what else needs to change.

After Angelina Jolie disclosed her genetic predisposition for breast cancer, demand for genetic tests went up. Counselors help interpret those tests, and demand for their services has increased, too.

Health workers and other responders are threatened as often as three or four times a week in the country. And efforts to bring security are proving difficult.

People who rely on plug-in health devices or medicine that requires refrigeration are scrambling to find ways to avoid potentially life-threatening disruptions now and in future fire season shutdowns.