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National News from NPR
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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with the singer-songwriter Bill Callahan about his new album My Days of 58.
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Older residents of Kyiv's many high-rises are learning to live with intermittent heat and electricity, cut off by Russian attacks.
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The official memorials for Jesse Jackson began this week. The late civil rights leader is lying in repose at his Rainbow-Push Coalition headquarters in Chicago Thursday and Friday.
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In 1946, Orson Welles vowed to solve a shocking crime on his radio show on ABC: the beating of a Black soldier who was returning from service after Word War 2. Radio Diaries recalls the story.
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Beyond the Ozarks
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A preview of the Feb. 7 symposium from the Black History Commission of Arkansas in Little Rock, as historian Ralph Wilcox explains the origins, reach and fragile legacy of Rosenwald schools across the South.
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Arkansas lawmakers raised concerns over a DHS proposal to shift Medicaid in-home personal care eligibility decisions to physicians. Officials agreed to pull the rule and rework it.
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Local Music News from KUAF
- Calvin Arsenia on the harp, a memoir, a listening room
- Singer-songwriter Nick Shoulders on newest album, ‘Refugia Blues’
- Talkin’ Tunes with Kyle, Sophia and Wai-Kay
- Ramblin’ Road listening series brings Australian-singer to Fayetteville
- Talkin’ Tunes with Kyle Kellams
- Soul Merchant revival brings 11-piece funk band to George’s