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NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to University of Oklahoma professor Andrea Benjamin about why she wants the human rights commission to be reinstated. The previous commission was dissolved in 1996.

When Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, it also disrupted the education of thousands of students. While many schools remain closed, Benjamin Franklin High School is one of the few operating charter schools in New Orleans. We talk with two teachers.

After grabbing the world's attention by beheading journalists and aid workers, analysts say the execution of a Jordanian pilot could set many in the Arab world against the group.

Elizabeth Benjamin, trauma medical director at Grady Memorial hospital in Atlanta, explains the dire implications day-to-day gun violence has on public health.

Sometimes rediscovering an object from childhood can bring back a flood of memories. Jeffrey Lewis rediscovered much of his young self when he read Berlin Childhood around 1900. Has a book ever reminded you of your own early life? Tell us about it in the comments.

The late South African vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin is remembered as her country's greatest jazz singer, who brought deliberation and questions of identity to her music. But she only launched her own career, from the shadow of her famous husband Abdullah Ibrahim, after several false starts.

Laura Ziegler began her career at KCUR as a reporter more than 20 years ago. She became the news director in the mid 1980's and in 1988, went to National Public Radio in Washington, D.C. as a producer for Weekend Edition Saturday with Scott Simon.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered air strikes in Gaza. He accuses Hamas of firing on Israeli troops, Hamas denies this. The move threatens Trump's fragile ceasefire.

Reporter Barbara Bradley Hagerty and Jay Young speak with NPR's Ailsa Chang about Young's relationship with Benjamin Spencer, the man who was wrongfully imprisoned for his father's murder.

In few operas does all the mayhem express what underlies George Benjamin's Written on Skin. The work conveys a profound awareness of human cruelty and its inextricable connection to passion and art.