Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode Changing Our Minds. How can we have more productive conversations with people we vehemently disagree with? Civil rights activist Loretta J. Ross gives us the tools to call people in — instead of calling them out. About Loretta J. Ross Loretta J. ...

A nurse administers a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine during a City of Long Beach Public Health mobile vaccination clinic at the California State University, Long Beach campus.Patrick T. Fallon | AFP via Getty Images This week, Wesleyan University in Connecticut held its first booster vaccine clinic on campus. ...

LA Johnson | NPR At age 9, Mahoro Amani got their period for the first time. At home, their mother talked openly about everything they needed to know. But, their mom told them, never mention this at school. "I was told to basically keep it a secret," says Amani, who's ...

These are the rules for the NPR Student Podcast Challenge: College Edition, if you're looking for the 5th-12th grade competition rules click here. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. OPEN TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE FIFTY (50) UNITED STATES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, AGE EIGHTEEN (18) OR OVER. ...

LA Johnson If you're looking for the 5th-12th grade contest, it opens on January 1, 2022 and you can find more info here. Submissions close February 28, 2021 at 11:59PM EST Step 1: Read the entry requirements. Podcasts must be between three and eight minutes long. Read more here. Step ...

LA Johnson A year ago, when we asked students across the U.S., "What does college sound like?" the responses did not disappoint. A postcard to a dorm room and its previous residents, sound design that took us inside the head of a concussed student dealing with online learning. So many ...

Hollins University was founded in 1842 on the principle that "young women require the same thorough and rigid training as that afforded to young men."Melissa Block/NPR Toward the end of Kendall Sanders' first year at Hollins University, a historically women's college in Roanoke, Va., the sociology major had a realization. ...

Sam Rowe for NPR Two weeks' notice: Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools in North Carolina voted on Oct. 28 to close schools on Nov. 12 for a "day of kindness, community and connection." Five days' notice: On the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 17, Ann Arbor Public Schools in Michigan announced that schools ...

An aerial view of The Oval on the campus of the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.Terry Gilliam | AP Ohio State University has launched an ambitious, 10-year plan to raise $800 million to eliminate all loans from financial aid packages given to undergraduates. "It's not free college, it's not ...

Nikole Hannah-Jones won a MacArthur "Genius" Grant in 2017. She is a tenured faculty member at Howard University.The New York Times As a child, journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones didn't hear much in school about the role of Black people in U.S. history. "Black people are largely treated as an asterisk in ...