Stomp the Blues Out of Homelessness
Stomp the Blues Out of Homelessness festival celebrates 15 years of music, community and fundraising
Event founder Jim Payne stopped by the Arts News studio to discuss the milestone year for the long-running event and how it supports local community organizations while bringing nationally touring musicians to Springfield, including this year’s headliner, Anders Osborne.
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Ben Rhodes was a speechwriter and security adviser for President Obama. His book, All We Say, is a collection of 15 speeches — from Ben Franklin to Trump — about what it means to be American.
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Ricci Shryock/NPRMusic is interwoven with the sounds of daily life in this West African island nation, which hosted two international music festivals in April and has been named the African Capital of Culture for 2028.
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Eleanor Beardsley/NPRPalestinians in the West Bank live amid garbage following Israeli restrictions. Two Palestinian entrepreneurs are trying to make a change. -
Nathan Rott/NPRWhen a species is facing extinction, it takes an enormous human effort to stave it off. Case in point: the painstaking campaign to save the frosted flatwoods salamander.
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Controversial Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wins GOP nomination for U.S. Senate seat, South Carolina lawmakers reject Trump-backed redistricting plan, Trump's whiplash diplomacy on Iran continues.
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Comedian Josh Johnson, best known for his work on "The Daily Show," gets his own HBO Max standup special, "Symphony."
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The '90s PBS series "Wishbone" starred a dog who imagined himself as the main character in literary classics from "Frankenstein" to "Faust." A new documentary tells the story of the show.
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A detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" has become too expensive to maintain and may soon close.
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Record-breaking temperatures in Europe are triggering government warnings, with London hitting 95 degrees the past two days. Experts say unpredictable and extreme weather is becoming more frequent.
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After a weekend of diplomatic whiplash, uncertainty remains around where President Trump's negotiations to end the war with Iran stands.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep tal Jennifer Gavito, who served as deputy assistant secretary of state for Iran and Iraq during the Biden administration, about President Trump's negotiating tactics.
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The FBI alleged in federal court that an American journalist who worked for Chinese state media illegally acted as an agent for the Chinese government.
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Israel has punished Israeli soldiers who desecrated Christian statues in Lebanon but denies bulldozing a convent, despite satellite images indicating otherwise.
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South Carolina lawmakers rejected President Trump's call for redistricting to help the GOP hold onto the U.S. House in the midterms.
