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Lois Curtis, an artist with an intellectual disability who brought a landmark civil rights lawsuit that gave people with disabilities the right to live outside of institutions, has died.

NPR's pop critic and correspondent shares her favorite albums of this year.

Producers of fantasy shows should use diversity to deepen storylines.

Angola's civil war left 1,100 active minefields. The attitude had been that clearing mines is man's work until a nonprofit stepped in. Now nearly 400 women deminers tread carefully — and courageously.

Psychologists play a critical role in K-12 schools, but there's a clear mismatch between the demographics of school psychologists and the student populations they serve.

After a year defined by emergence and creative combination, our critics zoom in on their own listening to choose one inescapable album and song each.

More protests are expected before the state funeral next week for Japan's divisive former leader. Shinzo Abe's assassination in July has highlighted the Unification Church's ties to Japanese politics.

A recent city poll of local housing developers identified some new building requirements — ranging from mandatory bicycle parking spaces to bird-safe windows — as policies the city should suspend to accelerate housing development in Portland.

This month marks the 80th anniversary of the presidential order that led to the internment of nearly 120,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II. One of those camps was just south of the Oregon border in Newell, California. It was called the Tule Lake Segregation Center. JPR’s Erik Neumann spoke with Hiroshi Shimizu who was interned there with his family.

The findings offer an early glimpse of the sheer magnitude of the learning setbacks dealt to the nation's children during the first two years of the pandemic.