NPR’s Leila Fadel asks Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell how his city is coping after the massive winter storm that swept across much of the country this weekend.
In a new memoir in verse, Alora Young traces the lives of generations of Black women
She’s 19, and the current Youth Poet Laureate of the Southern United States. Her debut book Walking Gentry Home archives her family’s history – and the legacy of slavery in the American South – in the form of a memoir in verse.

