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Segregation is connected to issues ranging from education to housing to health. So, it’s no coincidence that evictions disproportionately affects certain…

Water policy makers, scientists, corporate leaders and entrepreneurs are all together this week in Milwaukee. And while that’s not so unusual, given…

The new documentary painstakingly recounts the deadly 1971 prison uprising. NPR's Michel Martin talks to co-directors Stanley Nelson and Traci A. Curry.

Percussionist Bobby Sanabria grew up in the musical melting pot of the South Bronx in New York City. Now, as the leader of a big band, it's no wonder that his brand of Latin jazz mirrors a panoply of Afro-Western styles from all over the Americas.

Kristina Douglass wanted to find out the truth about how past communities adapted to environmental change. Her revelatory work has earned her a MacArthur award.

The Drug Enforcement Administration is cracking down on a plant that it says is involved in a number of deaths. Advocates say kratom can help treat opioid addiction, which is a far bigger hazard.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with Ted Benna, who created the 401(K) savings plan 20 years ago. Benna says the Internet makes it much easier for people to track their retirement savings accounts. But he advises people to ignore investment fads and day-to-day ups and downs in the market and to concentrate instead on long-term growth.

A world premiere on a slightly less grand scale opened Friday night in a space located in the historic Third Ward. MKE Carries is the work of a…

After an accidental collaboration at a shared practice space in Chinatown, NYC, Sandra Velasquez and Milwaukee native Sean Dixon formed the musical group…

Many novels begin by setting the protagonist in a brand new world. Something fundamental changes in their lives and everything that character once knew is…