How Many Of America's One Million COVID Death...

It's Juneteenth – the holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. The team at NPR's Code Switch team has been looking at a question tied to this day: Who actually gets compensated when the government wrongs them?NPR's Gene Demby joins host Ailsa Chang to discuss that ...  Show more

The landscape of Montgomery, Alabama is a monument to Civil Rights, but is America losing touch with the lessons of that movement?Montgomery, Alabama was the setting for much of the battle for Civil Rights. As the country celebrates its 250 anniversary, NPR’s Debbie Elliot went t ...  Show more

Unvaccinated Americans filling hospital as dangerous COVID surge takes hold; Pop Star Olivia Rodrigo promotes vaccine at white house; Tennessee stops all vaccine outreach to children, including COVID-19 shots; CDC: Delta variant rises to 58 percent of United States cases; United ...  Show more

For six months, people across the country have been waiting for the same lifeline: a vaccine for the coronavirus. The U.S. government has pledged $10 billion to help drug makers develop and distribute a vaccine in record time through “Operation Warp Speed.”

But the emp ...

The United States has 4% of the world’s population but 16% of COVID-19 deaths. This series investigates the failures by federal agencies that led to over 1 million Americans dying from COVID-19 and what that tells us about the nation’s ability to fight the next pandemic. Epide ...

Two years after COVID came to this country and shut it — and the world — down, Americans are eager to move on from this historic and devastating pandemic. The United States alone has lost close to one million people and nearly 80-million Americans have been infected with the viru ...  Show more