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Christopher Emdin, author of <em>For the White Folks Who Teach in the Hood ... and the Rest of Y'all Too.</em>

Want To Teach In Urban Schools? Get To Know The Neighborhood

Many teachers in urban schools don't understand their students or the places they live, says author and educator Christopher Emdin.

Safe Streets outreach coordinator Dante Barksdale says right after a shooting, the injured almost always talk. "Some of them want revenge, right then and there," he says. "Some of them are afraid. They're thinking about their brother or their homeboy. 'Is my man all right? He was with me!' They're real vulnerable. They got questions."

Baltimore Sees Hospitals As Key To Breaking A Cycle Of Violence

The city's health department wants to send ex-offenders who are trained to be "violence interrupters" to hospitals to talk with victims. Chicago has found such a program prevents repeat injuries.

Leticia Martinez helps herself at lunch where the discussion centered on voting in Watts, Feb. 10, 2016.

California Counts: As June Primary Nears, Latina Influence Could Be Key To Turnout

As candidates and advocacy groups ramp up their get-out-the-vote efforts, it turns out one group could prove persuasive in Latino families.

Hillary Rodham Clinton back in 1996 talking to reporters outside the U.S. District Court in Washington after testifying before a grand jury investigating Whitewater.

This 20-Year-Old Clinton Interview About Goldwater, Whitewater Echoes Today

In 1996, NPR's Scott Simon interviewed first lady Hillary Clinton about her battles with Republicans and her own time as a young booster of Barry Goldwater.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaking in Washington, D.C. earlier this week.

LISTEN: Trump Foreign Policy Adviser Hopes To Talk Him Out Of Torture

Trump is calling for torture "because we are in a political season," Walid Phares said, but in the White House "he's going to be tasking experts to answer that question."

Donald Trump waves Monday after addressing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's policy conference in Washington, D.C.

No, The Terrorist Attacks In Belgium Don't Mean Donald Trump Will Be President

Trump once again turned to protectionism as a way of dealing with the world, but it won't necessarily mean it will launch him to the White House.

No, The Terrorist Attacks In Belgium Don't Mean Donald Trump Will Be President

Trump once again turned to protectionism as a way of dealing with the world, but it won't necessarily mean it will launch him to the White House.

Health workers collect the body of a cholera victim in Petionville, Haiti, in February 2011. The disease first appeared on the island in October 2010, likely introduced by U.N. peacekeepers from Nepal, possibly a single individual.

Why The U.N. Is Being Sued Over Haiti's Cholera Epidemic

The demands: a U.N. apology for bringing the disease to the island, reparations for victims, repairs to the water system. Meanwhile, a study shows the toll is far worse than previously thought.

Jeremy Strong as Vinnie Daniel, Rafe Spall as Danny Moses, Hamish Linklater as Porter Collins, Steve Carell as Mark Baum, Jeffry Griffin as Chris and Ryan Gosling as Jared Vennett in "The Big Short."

Cinema Under The Stars Presents 'The Big Short'

Oscar-winning film screens at outdoor venue

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy are sworn in to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing in Washington on Thursday.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder Testifies On The Flint Water Crisis

"Let me be blunt," Gov. Rick Snyder told a House panel. "This was a failure of government at all levels. Local, state and federal officials — we all failed the families of Flint."

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