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NPR's Kelsey Snell speaks with Dr. Rhea Boyd about some of the misconceptions around unvaccinated Americans and her effort to reach them in underserved communities.

Toots Hibbert, the co-founder and lead singer of Toots and the Maytals, was one of the most distinctive and important voices of reggae and one of its founding fathers.

Jason Jones is a barber in New Orleans. He shares his worries about the coronavirus outbreak.

President Obama issued a proclamation making April 12 "Equal Pay Day." NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Harvard economics professor Claudia Goldin about what's behind the pay gap between men and women.

Author Elliot Ackerman is a veteran, and his latest novel is about an injured soldier just regaining consciousness. But it's really about something else. "This book really isn't about war," he says.

This week has seen outrage over children being separated from parents at the border, and confusion over congressional immigration proposals. To help sort through all of it, Michel Martin speaks with former INS commissioner Doris Meissner; Annaluisa Padilla, President at the American Immigration Lawyers Association; and Julian Aguilar, immigration reporter Texas Tribune.

Campaigning with the pandemic as a backdrop shows how both presidential candidates are getting their messages to voters, with one spinning his handling of the coronavirus and the other condemning it.

The Philpotts of Lake Oswego, Ore. have three kids with dyslexia and one with ADHD. For our Learning Curve series, Jenna Philpott explains how wildfires interrupted their first week of remote school.

Becky Mayo plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

California is looking at what it has in the toolbox to reduce fire danger and severity, from forest management to zoning and building codes and inspections.