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A worker at the Wupperthal Original Rooibos Co-operative's processing facility carries a bag of freshly harvested rooibos to the processing area. The country's rooibos tea exports have skyrocketed from barely 500 tons in 1996 to nearly 9,000 tons today — enough to fill 3.6 billion teabags. But indigenous farmers were long cut out of the revenues, until a ground-breaking agreement was forged.

Trendy rooibos tea finally brings revenues to Indigenous South African farmers

For generations, the Khoisan people harvested the rooibos plant to make tea. As this caffeine-free drink has grown widely popular around the world, they've been cut out of revenues. Until now.

South African actress Khanyi Mbau, one of the stars of Netflix's new original reality show set in Africa, <em>Young, Famous & African. </em>

Opinion: 5 Things I'd change about Netflix's 'Young, Famous & African'

If Dr. Ifeanyi Nsofor could have a hand in creating another season of the reality show, he'd ditch the 'Real Housewives' drama and get the cast to talk about COVID vaccines.

Drag artist Vidalia Anne Gentry speaks during a Feb. 14 news conference held by the Human Rights Campaign to draw attention to anti-drag bills in the Tennessee legislature.

A federal judge rejects Tennessee's anti-drag law as too broad and vague

U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker says the first-in-the-nation law designed to place strict limits on drag shows is unconstitutional.

New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan seen on Oct. 11 and Don Bolduc, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire, seen on Oct. 5.

Rising costs and abortion access top voter concerns in key New Hampshire Senate race

In a race that could decide the fate of the Senate, Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan is facing retired Army Brig. Gen. Don Bolduc, a Republican who falsely claimed the 2020 election was stolen.

Assalah Shikhani in front of her collapsed home in Antakya, Turkey in February.

An update from a Syrian teacher who lost her home and loved ones in the earthquakes

After three weeks, NPR's Leila Fadel speaks again with Assalah Shikhani, a Syrian refugee who lost family members and her home when an earthquake shattered parts of Turkey and Syria.

Stand-up comic Akau Jambo, 25, remembers a fellow comedian saying, "Dang, I never knew people were laughing in South Sudan." Jambo is out to prove him wrong.

So a South Sudanese comic put on a comedy fest in a land of 'suffering.' How'd it go?

Akau Jambo just staged the first international comedy festival in a country that the U.N. calls a place of suffering. Talking about the role of laughter, he says, "Life doesn't stop – we keep living."

Cyclone Freddy shattered records. People lost everything. How does the healing begin?

The countries hit by this unprecedented storm now must help survivors who may have lost nearly everything. We talk to an aid worker on the ground in Mozambique for insights.

President Joe Biden listens as he meets with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif., to discuss the debt limit in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, May 22, 2023, in Washington.

More than 6 in 10 say Biden's mental fitness to be president is a concern, poll finds

As President Joe Biden seeks a second term in office, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll shows that a majority of Americans are concerned about his mental fitness.

Wanda Sykes performs at the Miller Theater in Philadelphia during her Netflix special<em> I'm an Entertainer.</em>

Wanda Sykes stands in solidarity with Hollywood writers: 'We can't back down'

As a member of the Writers Guild of America, Sykes is fully supportive of the current strike; she says the survival of the craft is at stake. Her new Netflix special is I'm an Entertainer.

Hollywood star and blacklist victim Marsha Hunt dies at 104

Hunt was one of the last surviving actors from Hollywood's Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s. Her career was disrupted for a time by the McCarthy-era blacklist.

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