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Geena Davis attends the Emmy Awards in Sept. 2022. This month, she spoke with NPR's <em>Morning Edition</em> about her movie career and upcoming memoir.

These are the life lessons Geena Davis learned from 3 of her most famous movies

Geena Davis' new memoir, Dying of Politeness, looks back on her life and career. In a conversation with NPR's Morning Edition, she reflects on some of those iconic roles and how they shaped her.

Penelope Wingard of Charlotte, N.C., has survived breast cancer, a brain aneurysm and surgery on both eyes. For the past eight years, she's also been battling tens of thousands of dollars in medical debt.

Medical debt ruined her credit. 'It's like you're being punished for being sick'

New policies to keep medical bills from sinking credit ratings sound good but will likely fall short for many hit hardest by debt — especially Black Americans in the South, such as Penelope Wingard.

Justice Department's Civil Rights Division announced a new initiative to combat unlawful acts of hate in the Western District of New York. Here, a memorial for the supermarket shooting victims is set up outside the Tops Friendly Market on Thursday, July 14, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y.

After a deadly mass shooting, the DOJ is launching an anti-hate initiative in Buffalo

The new initiative is a broader effort by the Justice Department that it plans to launch across all 94 United States attorneys' offices over the next year.

<em>Component System</em> is a record that makes a case for the past as a continuously changing and evolving presence, not a trapped-in-amber escape route.

Open Mike Eagle makes himself a mixtape

The referential artist discusses hip-hop's repurposing spirit, reconciling zonal versions of himself, making sense of rap's "golden era" and his new album, Component System with the Auto Reverse.

Marzia Mohammadi, left, and Hajar Mohammadi were best friends and cousins who died in a suicide bombing at a learning center in Kabul. Marzia's diary captures both the hopes and fears of young Afghan women, particularly Hazaras, under Taliban rule.

The diary of an Afghan girl killed in bombing reveals a list of unfulfilled dreams

Ride a bike. Learn the guitar. Continue studying. All of this came to a violent end for 16-year-old Marzia Mohammadi. Her diary lays bare the struggles of Afghan girls since the Taliban takeover.

Special Interest, 'Foul'

The New Orleans punk band buzzes with the energy of a fly trapped in a jar, as shouted complaints ping against the glass with no resolution in sight.

Trump requests the Supreme Court to resolve the Mar-a-Lago document dispute

The legal battle over documents seized from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in August continues with the former president requesting the Supreme Court intervene in the case.

News brief: OPEC meeting, Trump document dispute, U.S. balancing act in Iran

OPEC mulls a cut in oil production. The fight over Mar-a-Lago documents goes to the Supreme Court. And the U.S. tries to support Iranian protesters while striking a nuclear deal with their government.

The Flint water plant tower is seen on Jan. 6, 2022, in Flint, Mich.

A Michigan judge drops felony charges against 7 people in Flint water scandal

The dismissal for 7 people was significant but not a surprise after the Michigan Supreme Court earlier said a different judge acting as a one-person grand jury had no authority to issue indictments.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case involving the Voting Rights Act.

Supreme Court conservatives may strike another blow to landmark Voting Rights Act

At issue in Tuesday's case was Alabama's congressional redistricting plan, adopted by the Republican state legislature after the 2020 Census.

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