The Pink Tax: What you need, they mark up More than half of the population spends an absurd amount of money every year on products that they need. Think tampons and other menstrual products. What’s worse is that institutionally, these products are considered luxury items and marked up as such. Antonio Nevarez
Toni Morrison Remembered By Poet Kwame Alexander Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison has died. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks to Morning Edition contributor Kwame Alexander about how she will be remembered.
'I Have Had Sex ... And Jesus Still Loves Me': 'Bachelorette' Stands Firm In Her Faith Hannah Brown, the lead on this season of The Bachelorette, recently sparked a conversation about sex and morality. "I have an audience of one, and that's the Lord," she says. Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Toni Morrison, Whose Soaring Novels Were Rooted In Black Lives, Dies At 88 Morrison was the author of Beloved, Song of Solomon and The Bluest Eye. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Karen Grigsby Bates
Two podcasts to listen to this week: 'Hot & Bothered' and 'Overheard at National Geographic' Do you love podcasts, but don’t know how to find new shows? Are you new to podcasts, and don't know where to start? Clare McGrane
The Wild book club: Eager readers become beaver believers In the month of July, listeners of our podcast "The Wild" were challenged to read Ben Gold Kara McDermott
Poppy, Chef Jerry Traunfeld's final Seattle sensation, is closing. Now what to do with all these cookbooks? Jerry Traunfeld, one of Seattle’s influential chefs, is calling it quits. His popular restaurant Poppy will close Sunday after 11 years. He recently sold the restaurant and plans to move to Palm Springs, California later this year. Ruby de Luna
Charles And Ray Eames Made Life Better By Design; Their Home Was No Exception Built in 1949 in the Pacific Palisades, the Eames House is considered among the most important post-war residences in the U.S. Now, the family is working to preserve the home for generations to come. Mandalit del Barco
Seattle Art Fair is the shiny new kid on the block this weekend The Blue Angels roared into Seattle this week, ushering in the 70th annual Seafair weekend. But for the past four years Seafair has shared the civic celebration spotlight with the shiny new kid on the block: the Seattle Art Fair, the brainchild of the late philanthropist, Paul Allen. Marcie Sillman
Sailing Takes Me Away The words from Yacht Rock classics, soft rock singles with nautical references, are rewritten to be about real and fictional boats.
