Juana Summers
Juana Summers is a political correspondent for NPR covering race, justice and politics. She has covered politics since 2010 for publications including Politico, CNN and The Associated Press. She got her start in public radio at KBIA in Columbia, Mo., and also previously covered Congress for NPR.
She appears regularly on television and radio outlets to discuss national politics. In 2016, Summers was a fellow at Georgetown University's Institute of Politics and Public Service.
She is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism and is originally from Kansas City, Mo.
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Paul Rusesabagina, whose life inspired the movie Hotel Rwanda, and his daughter, Anaïse Kanimba, have been vocal critics of Rwanda's current president, Paul Kagame.
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It's been 30 years since the Rwandan genocide. In some places today, survivors live side-by-side with perpetrators in so-called reconciliation villages.
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The Nkamira Transit Center is home to thousands of refugees who fled violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The decades-long conflict is a legacy of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
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Young Black voters were a key part of the coalition that sent Joe Biden to the White House in 2020. Yet recent polls suggest some of that support has eroded.
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Emily Nagoski is a sex educator and author of a bestseller on enhancing your sex life. The book did so well that it got in the way of her own.
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Kimberly Mata-Rubios about the Department of Justice report released today on their findings of the Uvalde school shooting. Her daughter Lexi was one of the 19 students
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A group of fishermen asked the Supreme Court to gut a nearly 40 year old case that could weaken federal regulations on the environment, health care and food safety.
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Julie K. Brown's reporting for the Miami Herald in 2017 and 2018 led to more charges for Epstein and identified nearly 80 of his victims.
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Medicare now covers therapy appointments with licensed marriage and family counselors, and licensed professional counselors.
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A new law will allow more mental health providers to accept Medicare patients. Could this help close the mental health gap for millions of older Americans?