Ayana Archie

3 days ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Ayana Archie

Basketball legend Michael Jordan is taking his talents to television. NBC Sports announced Monday he will be joining its programming as a contributor when the upcoming NBA season starts in October. "I am so excited to see the NBA back on NBC," Jordan said in a statement released by the network. "The NBA on NBC was a meaningful part of my career, and I'm excited about being a special contributor to the project.

6 days ago | nhpr.org | Juliana Kim |Ayana Archie

Updated May 9, 2025 at 8:15 AM EDTAbout 1.4 billion Catholics worldwide have a new spiritual leader: Pope Leo XIV. The election of Robert Francis Prevost, who chose the name Leo XIV, as the 267th leader of the Roman Catholic Church marks two historic firsts. Leo is the first-ever U.S.-born pope to lead the church and the first pope from the Augustinian order. On Thursday, the new pope appeared on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica and delivered a short speech.

1 week ago | opb.org | Ayana Archie

Brittany McKewn, of Asheville, N.C., wears a hat shaped like a rose before the 148th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs Saturday, May 7, 2022, in Louisville, Ky.As thousands of visitors enter Churchill Downs Saturday for the 151st Kentucky Derby, they will be met with manicured lawns, a rainbow of dresses, suits and hats and thoroughbreds ready to race. Don’t have a ticket? Well, here’s a look inside the glitz and glamor of the big day.

3 weeks ago | mprnews.org | Ayana Archie

The Trump administration is considering eliminating funding for the Head Start program, which is dedicated to free early child care services — a move that one advocate says would be "catastrophic.""This proposal does not reflect fiscal responsibility — it reflects a disinvestment in our future," Yasmina Vinci, the executive director of the National Head Start Association (NHSA), said in a statement Thursday. "Eliminating funding for Head Start would be catastrophic.

1 month ago | wgbh.org | Ayana Archie

A pair of Western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoises, who are estimated to be around a century old, have become parents for the first time at the Philadelphia Zoo. The arrival of four hatchlings to “Mommy” and “Abrazzo” is a “first” in the zoo’s 150-year-old history, contributing to the population of a critically endangered species.