Noah Caldwell

How to craft a narrative from a monumental congressional investigation

Noah Caldwell

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Philip Zelikow, who was behind the 9/11 Commission's report, as the Jan. 6 committee prepares to release its report.

100 years ago, 'Carol of the Bells' came to America — from Ukraine

Noah Caldwell

"Carol of the Bells" is a Christmas staple in the U.S., but it was written by a Ukrainian composer and first came to the U.S. 100 years ago — when Ukrainians were fighting for freedom.

Encore: Drummer Terri Lyne Carrington on her book, 'New Standards'

Noah Caldwell

NPR's Juana Summers talks with drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, who compiled a book of lead sheets by women composers after she couldn't find one herself. Her book is called "New Standards."

Bluegrass icon Billy Strings (right) recorded his new album <em>Me/And/Dad</em> with his stepdad, Terry Barber. The album features songs that Strings learned from Barber during his childhood.

Bluegrass icon Billy Strings brings it back home on new album with his dad

Ailsa Chang

Celebrated bluegrass musician Billy Strings has a new album out, which he made with his dad, Terry Barber.

Bluegrass icon Billy Strings recorded his new album with his dad

Noah Caldwell

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with bluegrass musician Billy Strings and his dad who taught him how to play guitar, Terry Barber, about their new album, "Me/And/Dad."

Sadio Konte Dior, 20, on the farm where he works outside of Dakar on October 4. He came to Senegal from Mali. On these small farms just outside of the capital, men and women who have migrated regionally grow lettuce and other vegetables.

What a lettuce farm in Senegal reveals about climate-driven migration in Africa

Ari Shapiro

People from all over West Africa come to Rufisque in western Senegal to labor in the lettuce fields – planting seeds and harvesting vegetables.

Babacar Niang, known as Matador, raps at a recording studio at one of Africulturban's facilities in Pikine, Senegal on April 26, 2018.

How Senegal's artists are changing the system with a mic and spray paint

Ari Shapiro

A cultural center in Senegal is creating a safe space where artists can use their platform to speak about climate change while also finding opportunities in the art and music scene.

Yaram Fall makes tea in her home in Guet N'dar, Senegal on October 6. She is the head of an economic interest group for women who preserve fish. She represents hundreds of Senegalese women who do her kind of work, and she discourages youth from taking the boat to Europe clandestinely.

'Stay here, work here, succeed here': Why this Senegalese woman is against migration

Ari Shapiro

Yaram Fall is staunchly against people leaving Africa to build their lives elsewhere. "The development of Africa comes from its own people," she says.

Mamadou Niang at his home in Gandiol, Senegal, on Oct. 6. Mamadou's father worked their family farmland until he died in 2006, and Mamadou would have liked to follow in his footsteps. But he can't, he says, because rising seas are pushing salt water into the fields.

He has attempted the journey to Europe three times, and refuses to give up

Ari Shapiro

Mamadou Niang has decided he has no choice but to leave his native Senegal. Salinization has made it impossible to farm his family's land.

Pape Dieye in Guet N'dar, Senegal on October 7.

People smugglers keep trying to recruit this boat captain. He keeps refusing

Ari Shapiro

Years of captaining a boat have shaped Pape Dieye's calm and reassuring presence in Senegal. These qualities have also caught the eye of people hoping to make the dangerous journey to Europe.