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#NPRreads: Wealthier Grays And The Intersection Of Race And Guns

This week's selection of articles and essays covers a surprising economic fact about seniors, the psychological damage done to juveniles in solitary and a look at the South Carolina church shooting.

The Department of Justice headquarters building in Washington.

Settlement Reached To Overhaul Mississippi Juvenile Courts

The Justice Department deal follows a scathing report that uncovered systemic violations of due process rights of young people.

DDTD founder Marco Biomonte stands in one of the laboratories of the San Diego biotech company Nanocomposix on June 2, 2015. He holds his company's first product: a test that can determine if someone is infected with worms.

Fledgling San Diego Biotech Pledges Not To Make Money

Drugs & Diagnostics For Tropical Diseases, or DDTD, develops tests that detect whether someone is infected with worms.

Oil trains sit idle on the BNSF Railway's tracks in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

Battle Over New Oil Train Standards Pits Safety Against Cost

Against the backdrop of several fiery derailments, safety advocates are questioning whether new federal rules meant to prevent incidents go far enough. Opponents say the new rules are too costly.

Bishop Cornelius Bowser remembers the day he gave up gang banging and turned his life over to God: Dec. 5, 1984. He gave it up for good, moving to Santee where he could make a clean break and afford to open his own church.

San Diego Faith Leaders React To Charleston Shooting

Pastors urge San Diegans to think beyond race following the shooting death of parishioners at one of the nation's oldest black churches.

Justices Give Officials More Say On Cars' Plates, Less On Roadside Signs

Justices on Thursday upheld the right of Texas to ban the Confederate battle flag from official license plates, but struck down the regulations an Arizona town imposed on churches' road signs.

Graeme McDowell, of Northern Ireland, watches his tee shot on the sixth hole during the first round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Chambers Bay. The brown grass may seem unusual to some American golf fans.

Here's Why The Grass Isn't Greener At This Year's U.S. Open

The Chambers Bay Golf Course in Washington State is almost all drought-resistant fescue grass, which is supposed to be brown in hot months.

An overall view of the San Diego Chargers playing against the Oakland Raiders at Qualcomm Stadium, Nov. 16, 2014.

'We're Out Of Time' — So Says Chargers Stadium Spokesman

Mark Fabiani made the remarks on KPBS Midday Edition

In The Name Of Love: A Mixtape For LGBT Pride Month

Alt.Latino asks one of its favorite guest DJs, Oscar Nñ, to curate a pride-friendly playlist.

An image of Europa released by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., in 1996 by the Galileo spacecraft. NASA says a new probe dedicated to studying the Jovian moon, is going into the development phase.

NASA: Europa Spacecraft Goes Into Development Phase

The probe would make dozens of flybys of the Jovian moon in an effort to study its vast subterranean ocean that could harbor life.

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