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  • Art Thicke (right) says the current farm subsidy system encourages farmers to grow crops that damage the environment. Also pictured: Tex Hawkins (left), of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Chad Crowley (center), who works on Thicke's farm.
    Calls Grow to Subsidize Green Farming
    The federal government is expected to pay $24 billion in farm subsidies this year. Critics, including quite a few farmers, say taxpayers shouldn't pay for corn or cotton surpluses. Instead, they say the funds should go toward things that benefit the public, such as cleaner water and a healthier environment.
  • Evelyn Cruz, a DSP, direct support professional leads a chant as she and other group home workers strike near one of their group homes on October 12, 2021 in Columbia, Connecticut.
    Connecticut group home workers call strike, demand more state funding to lift them out of poverty
    The strike is scheduled to begin Wednesday, May 24, at six agencies around the state.
  • House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., leaves after a closed House Republican election meeting to pick the next GOP House speaker nominee on Thursday in Washington, D.C.
    Kevin McCarthy Gone, In 60 Seconds
    After McCarthy dropped out of the House speakership race, there was a chaotic outpouring of reaction from Republicans. Listen in like a fly on the wall in that Capitol Hill hallway.
  • Folk Show Playlist 9.20.15
    Song/ Artist/ Album/ LabelMy America/ Erik Balkey/ Everything is Great/ Erik BalkeyGold Watch & Chain;Gospel Ship/ Harvey Reid/ The Autoharp Waltz/…
  • 'Revenant,' 'Martian' Take Top Honors At Golden Globe Awards
    At the Golden Globe awards Sunday night, The Revenant won for best drama film and The Martian won for best comedy. Those were just two of the awards handed out during a ceremony in Beverly Hills.
  • NHPR Folk Show Playlist 6.28.15
    Title/ Artist/ Album/ LabelDjango and Jimmie/ Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard/ Django and Jimmie/ LegacyMy Rough And Rowdy Ways/ Jimmie Rodgers/ On The Way…
  • Common Lead Test Can Give False Results, FDA Warns
    Common blood tests for lead can give falsely-low results in certain cases, according to a new warning from the Food and Drug Administration.
  • NHPR Folk Show Playlist 9.11.6
    Title/ Artist/ Album/ LabelMolly May/ Claire Lynch/ North by South/ Compass RecordsWhiskey 'Fore Breakfast ; Sailor's Bonnet/ Mike Cross/ Best of the…
  • NHPR Folk Show Playlist 8.28.16
    Title/ Artist/ Album/ LabelC-H-I-C-K-E-N/ Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur/ Penny's Farm/ Kingswood RecordsLittle Birdie/ Daniel Koulack & Karnnel Sawitsky/…
  • Five members of the Friendship Nine — Willie Thomas Massey (from left), Willie McCleod, James Wells, Clarence Graham and David Williamson Jr. — sit at the counter of the Five & Dine restaurant in Rock Hill, S.C., on Dec. 17. A judge in South Carolina has thrown out the convictions of the nine black men who integrated a whites-only lunch counter in 1961.
    Judge Throws Out Friendship 9's Civil Rights-Era Conviction
    The nine men integrated a whites-only lunch counter in Rock Hill, S.C., in 1961, and refused to pay a fine. Their "jail, no bail" strategy became a rallying cry against Jim Crow.
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