Juana Summers

NPR's Juana Summers talks with author Jas Hammond about their book, We Deserve Monuments. It's a young adult love story and a family mystery that explores intergenerational trauma and racism.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with former NFL star Doug Williams, the first Black quarterback to start in the Super Bowl, about the first Super Bowl to feature two Black quarterbacks.

The company behind Dungeons and Dragons is looking to change its copyright license. Leaked drafts showed a clamp-down on fan made content, and fans launched a campaign against it. So far, they've won.

The Welsh-born artist, a co-founder of The Velvet Underground, has been relentlessly creating for nearly 60 years. On his new album, he sounds as alive as ever.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Malcolm-Jamal Warner about his Grammy nomination for best spoken word poetry album and the inspiration behind it.

As the U.S. creeps towards its debt ceiling and a political standoff takes shape, NPR's Juana Summers speaks with two of the negotiators who helped broker a deal to raise the debt limit in 2011.

In her new book You Just Need To Lose Weight and 19 Other Myths About Fat People, Aubrey Gordon tackles the biases and myths that she says keep fat people on the margins of society.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Geoff Freeman, president and CEO for the U.S. Travel Association, which advocates for the travel industry. He explains why air travel has been so disrupted lately.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Scott Safechuck, a Santa Barbara County Fire Department official, on the cleanup underway as the county recovers from days of brutal storms and prepares for more ahead.

Grant Wahl's death at the Qatar World Cup set off conspiracy theories that persisted long after they were disproven.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with author Kashana Cauley about her debut novel The Survivalists and putting her comedy background to work in writing about the unexplored perspective of Black survivalism.

Dr. Céline Gounder speaks out against disinformation after her husband Grant Wahl's sudden death was seized on by anti-vaccination conspiracy theorists.

Cinderella stories never happen in college football. But Monday night's CFP title game may actually produce one. NPR's Juana Summers talks to Holly Anderson of the Shutdown Fullcast for a preview.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Aubrey Gordon about her new book "You Just Need To Lose Weight and 19 Other Myths About Fat People."

Pundits, politicians and journalists are apt to call this chaotic congressional moment unprecedented. NPR's Juana Summers speaks with historian John Farrell about whether that is true.

After the shocking cardiac arrest of Damar Hamlin on Monday, the NFL will try and play games this weekend, but will not finish the game in which he collapsed.

You've likely heard lots this week about how rare the repeated failed Speaker votes have been. But is this a new level of dysfunction for Congress?

A group of video game testers has formed Microsoft's first labor union in the U.S. NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Nicole Carpenter, senior reporter at Polygon, about the rise of video game unions.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Representative-elect Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., about the ongoing votes for House speakership as he waits to be sworn in.

Mortgage rates above seven percent and a low supply of homes for sale has made home ownership feel out of reach for many Americans. Yet it remains an important way to build wealth in the U.S.