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5 days ago | tpr.org | Christina Cala |B.A. Parker |Gene Demby |Xavier Lopez |Xavier López

As the Trump administration targets the Smithsonian Institute for "divisive narratives" and "improper ideology," it got us thinking about how we preserve our history and everything that builds it, like language. So we're revisiting an episode from last year from the Lakota Nation in South Dakota over language — who preserves it, who has the right to the stories told in it, and who (literally) owns it. Copyright 2025 NPR Education Top StoriesNational StoriesNative Americans

6 days ago | tpr.org | Yvette Benavides

When the novel The Imagined Life opens, Steven Mills is recalling something that happened when he was an adolescent. On the surface, it was something fairly mundane. Steven witnesses his parents—and their behavior isn’t that unexpected or unusual. They are drinking by the pool with their friends. They jump in the pool. Music plays. Classic movies are projected on a screen. The partygoers are loud and seem to be enjoying themselves. But then one day, Steven sees something through the window of his room.

6 days ago | tpr.org | Aaron Bolton

When L tells the story of her mom — and how she's stuck in a repetitive cycle of mental health crises and bouts of homelessness — she refers to a thick stack of papers and notes she's accumulated along the way. L has spent more than a year trying to navigate Montana's mental health system, searching for anyone who could help her mom manage her symptoms and achieve enough stability to get off the streets and into a permanent home.

6 days ago | tpr.org | Norma Martinez |Norma Martínez |Marian Navarro

Despite a lack of representation, women of color have long blazed trails in the world of ballet. Janet Collins and Maria Tallchief became the first Black and Native American prima ballerinas, respectively, in the mid-20th century. Decades later in 2015, Misty Copeland became the first Black principal dancer at the American Ballet Theater. Dancer Steena Hernandez started ballet in West Texas when she was just three years old and was often one of the few Latina dancers in her classes.

1 week ago | tpr.org | Brian Kirkpatrick

Lee esta historia en inglés. El impulso económico proporcionado a San Antonio por la afluencia de compradores mexicanos durante la Semana de Pascua es equivalente a una "tercera semana de vacaciones de primavera" para la ciudad, informó Visit San Antonio, el brazo turístico de la ciudad.