Media
Lulu Garcia-Navarro leaves Weekend Edition
October 17, 2021
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro bids Weekend Edition listeners a fond farewell after 17 years at the network.
Media
Looking back on Lulu Garcia-Navarro's long career at NPR
October 17, 2021
An appreciation of NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro, who's leaving the network after 17 years.
Music Interviews
Joy Crookes' first album embraces power, heartbreak and racial justice
October 17, 2021
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with singer and songwriter Joy Crookes about her debut album, Skin.
Movie Interviews
How writer Nicole Holofcener told the true tale of 'The Last Duel'
October 17, 2021
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to writer Nicole Holofcener about her new movie, The Last Duel.
World
Haiti's kidnapping crisis is plunging the country even further into turmoil
October 17, 2021
Seventeen missionaries were kidnapped by an armed gang in Haiti on Saturday. It was the latest in what experts are calling a kidnapping crisis in the country — a crisis largely driven by one gang.
Race
Minnesota based moccasin company apologizes for profiting off Native American culture
October 17, 2021
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with artist Adrienne Benjamin about her new role as "reconciliation advisor" to Minnetonka Moccasins, following the company's apology for appropriating Native culture.
Middle East
How newly elected Alaa al-Rikabi wants to reform Iraq
October 17, 2021
Following last week's elections, an Iraqi reformer finds himself in the parliament now - and talks about his plans to fight corruption and brave the dangers that brings.
National Security
The Biden administration announced the DHS will halt workplace raids
October 17, 2021
NPR's Lulu Garcia Navarro talks to Marielena Hincapie, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, about a new DHS memo that aims to end workplace raids on immigrant workers.
Space
China achieves another milestone in its space program
October 17, 2021
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Jim Head, Professor Emeritus of the Geological Sciences at Brown University, about China's new space station and the country's rapidly advancing space program.
Times Square's first fountain is covered in acrylic fingernails
October 17, 2021
This week, Times Square got its very first public fountain. Fashioned by Pamela Council, "A Fountain for Survivors" is 18 feet tall and encased with some 400,000 colorful acrylic fingernails.