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PATRICK BELLEGARDE-SMITH is a professor of Africology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Today, he will place Haiti's current political situation in a historical context, explaining the history of American involvement in Haiti. BELLEGARDE-SMITH grew up in Haiti, at the height of the Duvalier dictatorship. His grandfather was Dantes Bellegarde, one of Haiti's leading social philosophers. BELLEGARDE-SMITH will talk about Haiti from a personal standpoint as well

Commentator Maureen Corrigan has a review of a new biography of a turn of the century journalist: "Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist" (Times Books).

Novelist JOYCE CAROL OATES. The prolific writer has penned 23 novels, in addition to plays, poems, short stories and criticism. Her new novel is called "Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang,"(Dutton) about a group of high school girls who form a violent gang in upstate New York during the Fifties. Their mission is violence against men. OATES is a professor of humanities at Princeton University. Her previous book is the critically acclaimed "Black Water," nominated for the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews "No Gifts from Chance (Scribners)," Shari Benstock''s new biography of writer Edith Wharton

"If we didn't lead this fight, nobody would," says a Beirut resident whose 3-year-old daughter was among the 217 killed in the blast. An official investigation has stalled. No one has been prosecuted.

A new NPR poll underscores the often-sharp differences Americans have when it comes to race, discrimination and policing — but there has been a shift over the last year.

In Miami, as vaccinations slow, officials are coming up with new ways to make them easier to get, particularly for immigrants and busy working people.

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, about schools reopening in the fall while coronavirus cases continue to rise in some areas.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks Tim Alberta of The Atlantic about the split in the Republican Party as former president Donald Trump continues to exercise his influence over it.

"The requests single out President Trump because he is a Republican and a political opponent," the former president's lawyers say in a new motion.