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As NPR celebrates 50 years on the air, host Scott Simon reflects on how the network has grown, and his time travelling the world, covering wars, famines, elections and more.

Bill Siemering, NPR's first director of programming, recognized the network's potential and offered core values that would eventually compose the mission statement.

All Things Considered listener Joel Abrams shares how a story about Haitian farmworkers has stuck with him since it aired on the show in 1991.

In the 1950s, the city of Compton was nearly all-white. But by the 1970s, it had turned majority Black — in part due to a state-sanctioned predatory real estate practice called blockbusting.

Fifty years ago, a chance encounter at a table-tennis tournament opened the door for warmer relations between the U.S. and China, back when China was mostly isolated from the West.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with writer Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor about the racist real estate practices that ensured wealth accumulated along racial lines, even after housing discrimination became illegal.

In the 50 years that NPR has been around, the journalistic landscape has changed massively. We explore these changes and what role the network

The Capitol breach changed journalist vocabulary

Maddox be part of the NPR Training team and her first day is February 1.

A public radio initiative to bolster local reporting paid off in dividends