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It's been a historic week with President Obama nominating Judge Sonya Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. Sotomayor is the first Hispanic Supreme Court nominee and if confirmed, would be only the third woman to serve on the nation's highest court.

A new art installation will be unveiled this month in Detroit in remembrance of those lost to or impacted by COVID-19. Artist Sonya Clark explains the meaning of The Healing Memorial.

Chancellor Sonya Christian of the California Community College system talks about the impact of funding cuts for students.

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Sonya Kitchell is just 17, but her voice and lyrics are drawing comparisons to Joni Mitchell and Norah Jones. Rolling Stone says her music belies her age. Kitchell tells Howard Berkes how a young woman from Massachusetts "gets" the blues.

Entergy failed to rebuild a stronger system after hurricanes repeatedly damaged its electric grid. Then Hurricane Ida knocked out power for more than a week in the middle of a heat wave.

When President Obama introduced his Supreme Court nominee Tuesday, he spoke at length about her personal story. Ed Whelan, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and Kenji Yoshino, a professor of constitutional law, talk about Sonya Sotomayor's long record as a lawyer and judge.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Illinois State Representative Sonya Harper about George E. Johnson, the entrepreneur who invented Afro Sheen and other Black hair care products, who died last week.

A federal judge in Texas dismissed a lawsuit by a group of Republicans seeking to invalidate more than 100,000 votes in Harris County, Texas. The Texas Supreme Court earlier denied a similar petition.

Emily Bernard was recovering from a knife attack — a "bizarre act of violence" — when she decided to write a book of essays rooted, autobiographically, in the blackness of her own body.