Juana Summers is an education reporter at NPR
Juana Summers appears in the following:
Animals are stressed during eclipses. But not for the reason you think
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
NPR's Juana Summers talks with biologist Adam Hartstone-Rose about his study into why animals are so stressed out during an eclipse.
Emily Henry on 'embarrassing, giddy, freefall' of writing, reading and being in love
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Emily Henry about her new book FUNNY STORY and the difficulty of writing a genuinely nice person while also creating obstacles in getting two people together.
Columbia University's student radio is on air nonstop covering campus protests
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Columbia University's student radio station WKCR has been transformed into a bustling newsroom by the protests that have roiled campus for the past week.
The prosecution's case in Donald Trump's hush money trial
Monday, April 22, 2024
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Dan Horowitz, former prosecutor of white collar crimes in the Manhattan DA's office, about the unprecedented hush money case against Donald Trump.
Passover arrives at a tense time on Columbia's campus amid pro-Palestine protests
Monday, April 22, 2024
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Rabbi Yuda Drizin, director of Chabad at Columbia University, about the wave of protests on campus over Israel's war in Gaza.
A chef in Rwanda wants to create a revolution in African cuisine
Friday, April 19, 2024
Meza Malonga, a restaurant in Rwanda's capital Kigali, serves innovative Afro-fusion cuisine. Chef Dieuvel Malonga opened it in 2020, after years of working in high-end European restaurants.
30 years ago, this Rwandan woman saved a dozen neighbors from the genocide
Friday, April 12, 2024
Josephine Dusabimana's story of being a helper, though those she helped worried for her safety. A Hutu, she was nearby when soldiers burned Tuti houses — and people needed rescue.
Rwanda's president is lauded for transforming the country. But he's also criticized
Friday, April 12, 2024
Rwanda has experienced considerable economic growth in the 30 years since the genocide. But some critics say it's come at the cost of certain freedoms.
In Rwanda, a new sound blends rap beats with traditional music
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Loud Sound Studios is home to two of Rwanda's up-and-coming hip-hop acts: Pro-Zed and Kenny K-Shot.
The balance between tourism and conservation at a Rwandan national park
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Akagera National Park in eastern Rwanda was hard hit by the violence of the country's genocide. For a time, the park floundered — but it's now flourishing.
Paul Rusesabagina of 'Hotel Rwanda' fame and his daughter criticize the government
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Paul Rusesabagina, whose life inspired the movie Hotel Rwanda, and his daughter, Anaise Kanimba, have been vocal critics of Rwanda's current president, Paul Kagame.
Basketball takes hold in Rwanda, a country dominated by soccer
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Basketball is gaining popularity in Rwanda. We chat with a few players and fans to learn why.
Rwanda's youth have grown in genocide's shadow. Here are their hopes for the future
Tuesday, April 09, 2024
Three Rwandans under the age of 25 — Ornella Ineza, Kelvin Rwihimba, and Crispin Iradukunda — reflect on what it's like to grow up in a country that's been shaped by a genocide.
Remembrance and reconciliation, 30 years after the Rwandan genocide began
Monday, April 08, 2024
It's been 30 years since the Rwandan genocide began in 1994. In some places today, survivors of the genocide live side-by-side with perpetrators, so-called reconciliation villages.
30 years on, legacy of genocide haunts Rwandans
Sunday, April 07, 2024
Decades after a genocide that killed nearly 1 million Rwandans, NPR visits a church that was the site of a massacre where 7,000 people were killed, and talk to one man who perpetrated crimes there.
Black girls have the spotlight in horror anthology 'The Black Girl Survives This One'
Tuesday, April 02, 2024
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Desiree Evans and Saraciea Fennell about their anthology of horror stories from Black writers with the racial and gender representation they've longed for in the genre.
Violence in eastern Congo has displaced millions of people. Some end up at this camp
Monday, April 01, 2024
The Nkamira Transit Camp is home to more than 6,000 refugees fleeing violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The decades-long conflict is a legacy of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
A preview of NPR's reporting from Rwanda as it nears 30 years since genocide
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Thirty years ago, Rwanda experienced one of the worst genocides of the 20th century. NPR's Juana Summers reports from Rwanda about how the country has changed in the years since.
How the Underground Railroad got its name
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with journalist Scott Shane, who traced the naming of the Underground Railroad back to the writings of the little-known 19th century abolitionist Thomas Smallwood.
The mayor of Kansas City recounts the shooting at a Super Bowl celebration
Thursday, February 15, 2024
NPR's Juana Summers talks to Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas about the shooting at a Super Bowl celebration Wednesday that killed one person and injured more than 20 others.