Juana Summers

NPR Ed

Juana Summers appears in the following:

Democratic Rep. Cori Bush on her memoir and her 'politivist' approach to Congress

Tuesday, October 04, 2022

Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., talks with NPR's Juana Summers about her memoir, The Forerunner. It details the sometimes harrowing struggles that shaped her political rise.

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Players on Spain's women soccer team say they won't play until changes are made

Friday, September 30, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Barcelona-based reporter Alan Ruiz-Terol about 15 women soccer players renouncing to play for the Spanish national team.

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The history of Iran's so-called morality police

Friday, September 30, 2022

Iran's Guidance Patrol is under fire after protests across the country. NPR's Juana Summers speaks with an Iranian scholar Roxane Farmanfarmaian about the history of the controversial institution.

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A view of Hurricane Ian's impact in South Carolina

Friday, September 30, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Amanda Bryan, who lives in the coastal city of Myrtle Beach, S.C., a little over 30 miles north of where the center of the storm passed.

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Ginger Root's Cameron Lew wants his new EP to showcase city pop as familiar yet fresh

Thursday, September 29, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Cameron Lew of the band Ginger Root about his new EP Nisemono and the vintage Japanese pop that inspires his sound.

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Fort Myers resident documents the hurricane damage

Thursday, September 29, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Fort Myers, Fla., resident Bobby Pratt about the damage Hurricane Ian had on his town.

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Cherokee Nation campaigns for a U.S. House seat

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Kim Teehee, the Cherokee Nation's Delegate-Designee, about the Cherokee Nation's campaign to seat her in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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The death of a boy fractures a family in Namwali Serpell's 2nd novel 'The Furrows'

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Namwali Serpell about her new novel — The Furrows: An Elegy.

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Journalists are being trained to gather evidence of war crimes — starting in Ukraine

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

For years, the coverage of war crimes by journalists wasn't used in criminal trials. The Reckoning Project is an educational program that aims to change that, starting with Ukraine.

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Flooding, wind damage and power outages are among Tampa Mayor's hurricane concerns

Monday, September 26, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Tampa Mayor Jane Castor about how her city is preparing for Hurricane Ian.

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Remembering saxophone icon Pharoah Sanders, dead at 81

Monday, September 26, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with music historian Ayana Contreras about the death of musician Pharoah Sanders and the legacy he leaves behind.

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How a group of journalists is documenting war crimes in Ukraine

Monday, September 26, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers talks with war correspondent Janine Di Giovanni about the Reckoning Project, which trains journalists in Ukraine to collect evidence of war crimes to use in international court.

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Scandals? What scandals? Here's why fans are still watching the NFL

Friday, September 23, 2022

No matter the scandal, fans cannot quit the NFL. NPR's Juana Summers talks with Kevin Draper, sports reporter for The New York Times about why.

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Terri Lyne Carrington addresses women's omission from jazz canon with 'New Standards'

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

After finding an abysmally low number of women artists' work within jazz's unoffical book of standards, Carrington set out to fix the problem with a book of her own.

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Adnan Syed's lawyer reacts to overturned conviction

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Erica Suter, lawyer for Serial subject Adnan Syed, about the overturning of Syed's conviction in the murder of Hae Min Lee.

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The infrastructure law is meant to help with crises like Jackson's water problems

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Mitch Landrieu, who oversees the implementation of the infrastructure package, about how this law will help with crises like the lack of water in Jackson, Miss.

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Billions of dollars went to repair Puerto Rico's electric grid, but it still failed

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Sergio Marxuach, public policy director at the Center for a New Economy in Puerto Rico, about the island's frail power grid.

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Jamaica is reevaluating its relationship with the British monarchy

Monday, September 19, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Lisa Hanna, a member of Jamaica's parliament, about how Jamaica's relationship with the monarchy may change after Queen Elizabeth II's death.

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The migrants flown to Martha's Vineyard have left, but their stories continue

Friday, September 16, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Oren Sellstrom, litigation director at Lawyers for Civil Rights, about what's next for the nearly 50 migrants that were flown to Martha's Vineyard from Texas.

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On debut solo album, Marcus Mumford explores healing, mercy and forgiveness

Friday, September 16, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers chats with Marcus Mumford about his debut solo album, Self-Titled, which is a deeply personal exploration of healing, mercy and forgiveness.

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