Debbie Elliott

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Mexican president proposes sweeping reforms increasing pensions, minimum wage

Sunday, February 11, 2024

NPR's Debbie Elliot speaks with Reforma columnist Carlos Bravo Regidor about Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's new constitutional reforms.

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Mitch McConnell's fading influence on House Republicans can be traced back to Trump

Sunday, February 11, 2024

NPR's Debbie Elliott speaks with NPR's Political Correspondent, Sue Davis, about Senator minority leader Mitch McConnell's current influence over his conference.

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'Thank You Please Come Again' is an ode to the food of Southern gas stations

Sunday, February 11, 2024

NPR's Debbie Elliott talks with photographer Kate Medley about her book, "Thank You Please Come Again," on eateries in Southern gas stations. She also speaks with Otha Campbell who helps run one.

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Politics chat: New conditions for military aid; Trump attacks NATO

Sunday, February 11, 2024

The US attaches new conditions to military aid for allies; Trump's campaign rhetoric against NATO, Democrats react to the special counsel report's characterization of Biden.

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Actor Camila Mendes on 'Upgraded', a new rom-com about a New York art intern

Sunday, February 11, 2024

NPR's Debbie Elliott speaks with actor Camila Mendes, star of the movie "Upgraded," now streaming on Amazon Prime. It's a romantic comedy about an intern at a New York art auction house.

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King cake is a Mardi Gras tradition in New Orleans. Locals voted for the best one

Sunday, February 11, 2024

NPR's Debbie Elliot speaks with Ian McNulty, a food culture writer for nola.com about Mardi Gras cakes and the first Mardi Gras king cake bracket.

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Israeli military claims an underground tunnel links Hamas with the UNRWA

Sunday, February 11, 2024

Israel's military showed journalists what it claims is a Hamas tunnel beneath the Gaza headquarters of the UN agency that assists Palestinians.

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Britti Guerin's debut album navigates the hardship and triumph of finding your voice

Sunday, February 11, 2024

NPR's Debbie Elliot speaks to singer/songwriter Britti Guerin about her debut album, "Hello I'm Britti."

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More than 5,000 Maui residents are still displaced after last summer's fires

Thursday, February 08, 2024

Maui had a housing crisis even before last summer — but the fires on Maui amplified it. As local politicians work to find longer term housing, the instability is taking a toll.

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A look from Maui six months after devastating wildfires

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

As we approach the six-month anniversary of the Maui fires, we look at the biggest issues that people on the island are still facing.

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An Alabama engineer says a major defense contractor fired him for speaking Hindi

Monday, January 29, 2024

An engineer in Huntsville, Ala. is suing the defense contractor Parsons Corporation for discrimination, arguing he was fired for speaking his native Hindi language at work.

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Alabama engineer sues major defense corporator for racial discrimination

Saturday, January 27, 2024

An engineer in Huntsville, Ala., is suing the defense contractor Parsons Corporation for discrimination, arguing he was fired for speaking his native Hindi language at work.

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NPR staffers pick their favorite food books from the 2023 Books We Love list

Saturday, January 06, 2024

From NPR's Books We Love list, our staff recommends the cookbooks "Ed Mitchell's Barbeque," "Invitation to a Banquet," "The Secret of Cooking," "The Migrant Chef," and "Asada."

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Confederate monument melted down to create new, more inclusive public art

Sunday, October 29, 2023

The statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Va. is being melted down into an inclusive art display. (This story first aired on All Things Considered on October 26, 2023.)

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Confederate monument melted down to create new, more inclusive public art

Thursday, October 26, 2023

A project in Charlottesville, Va. seeks to upend the narrative around the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was the center of deadly white nationalist protests there in 2017.

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Black residents in rural Alabama demand sanitation equity, saying 'it's a right'

Friday, October 13, 2023

A landmark environmental justice agreement is aimed at fixing longstanding sanitation issues in a rural, predominantly Black Alabama county. Residents say they've waited long enough.

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Landmark environmental justice case aims to fix an Alabama county's sewage problems

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

The Biden administration reached a landmark environmental justice agreement to fix longstanding sanitation issues in rural Lowndes County, Ala., where some homes pipe raw sewage into their yards.

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A century ago, Black WWI vets demanded better care. They got their own VA hospital

Friday, September 29, 2023

This is the centennial of the first Veterans Affairs hospital established to treat Black veterans. It opened in Tuskegee, Ala., after veterans were denied equitable health care after World War I.

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Tuskegee Veterans Affairs hospital, the first to treat Black veterans, turns 100

Thursday, September 28, 2023

Marking the centennial of the first Veterans Affairs hospital established to treat Black veterans, who protested after being denied equitable health care upon returning from WWI.

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Remembering dark chapter in civil rights history: 16th Street Baptist Church bombing

Friday, September 15, 2023

People in Birmingham, Ala., are gathering to remember the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church 60 years ago. The bombing, which killed four girls, helped to spur passage of the Civil Rights Act.

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