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A house ball or Harlem ball is where drag queens, transgender, and gender nonconforming people dress up and dance or walk the floor. It's named after the…

Mary Louise Kelly talks with Mayor Derrick Freeman of Port Arthur, Texas, which is east of Houston and has experienced flooding as well.

(MPRN-Detroit) Lawyers for Iraqi immigrants facing deportation say the detainees are being subjected to abuse and intimidation. The case played out…

When her newborn daughter was placed in her arms, Carolyn Walker sensed right away that something was wrong. But in the next instant Walker found that she…

For Labor Day we get you ready to go back to school with two previously aired segments. We hear from a journalism professor and two students about taking…

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Celia Perez about her book, The First Rule of Punk for middle-grade readers. The first rule? Be yourself.

Regina Thorne-DuBois is a Houston drag queen who held a series of Facebook Live fundraisers for local community health organizations in the wake of Harvey. She joins NPR's Scott Simon.

More than 100 high school football games in Texas have been canceled following Harvey. Scott Simon talks with Angel Verdejo, who covered football for the Houston Chronicle and now works in education.

Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks...Treats For Growling Tummies, Fruity Bears, Cold Hard Fact

Terrence Veal, his wife, and his six children left New Orleans on the eve of Katrina's landfall. Now, 12 years later, they've had to evacuate their Houston home in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.