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Janet Brown and Maren Engel sit down with Lori Walsh for a live broadcast from the 2024 South Dakota Arts Conference. They visit about art advocacy and finding a sense of place in the arts world.

Caroline Davis was about to make a mistake that could have severely damaged her car. Then a stranger stepped in, with an offer of help that brought her to tears.

A brave hummingbird does what she can to fight a fire in Sascha Alper's new book. It was one of the last projects illustrator Jerry Pinkney worked on before he died. His son Brian finished it for him.

Author Mitchell S. Jackson trains his formidable linguistic skills on his turbulent youth growing up in a poor black community in Portland, Ore., one of the whitest cities in the country.

Spaghetti Westerns, Philadelphia soul, opera and the Wu-Tang Clan all come together in the music of Adrian Younge. He has produced and composed two new albums — one with William Hart, the lead singer of The Delfonics, and another with rapper Ghostface Killah.

John Simko is on a short list of South Dakota High School multi-sport athletes. He was a four-sport athlete in high school and college. Simko joins Craig Mattick on this edition of In Play.

Jackie Cruz plays a convict in the series Orange Is the New Black, but she's also a singer. She talks to NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about her debut album, Hija de Chavez.

For Ahmad Chahabi, reaching the safety of Germany was only the first step. Today he's drawing from his own experience to help the newly arrived.

More than 600,000 Rohingya have fled from Burma into Bangladesh since the end of August. David Greene talks to Simon Henshaw, one of the first U.S. diplomats to see the refugee situation first-hand.

It might feel like the world is always on the brink of disaster, but Gregg Easterbrook says we're better off than we think. NPR's Sarah McCammon asks him about his new book, It's Better Than It Looks.