Hobbs signs executive orders protecting and expanding access for LGBTQ+ Arizonans
The two executive orders will bar state resources from being used to support conversion therapy and protect access to gender-affirming care for state employees.
Sierra Vista Celebrates Juneteenth
The 8th annual event was hosted by the Sierra Vista African American Community Coalition
Breaking Barriers: how Tucson's Juneteenth created community since before statehood
As Tucson's official Juneteenth festival marks 53 years, historians look back on a celebration that dates back to the late 1800s.
Airplane Crash from 1948 is Revisited and Researched
A professor and author is trying to find the families of all 32 victims.
"Billie! Backstage with Lady Day" at Invisible Theatre.
Also on Arizona Spotlight: Revisiting a cookbook that represents Tucson's Black community; remembering the last of the Universal Monster performers, Ricou Browning; and a poem about what a kit a cat can be by Rick Wamer.
Meet a Sierra Vista civil rights pioneer
For Dorothy Coston-Tompkins, it’s about service, investing in people, and creating spaces and opportunities for everyone to have their voices heard.
Sierra Vista school district honors longtime member, educator for decades of service
Connie Johnson has been a schools and civil rights leader in the area since the late 1960s.
Transgender youth face fewer rights in the new year
The new laws will take affect Jan. 1 and include restrictions on issues like gender-affirming care.
Yamiche Alcindor receives the 2022 Zenger Award for Press Freedom from the UA School of Journalism.
Also on Arizona Spotlight: Adiba Nelson talks with the founders of the new African American Museum of Southern Arizona at the University of Arizona
Nogales-born Tuskeegee Airman George Biggs honored at Davis Monthan Air Force Base
Major Biggs, also the son of Buffalo Soldier Levi Biggs, flew combat missions in Korea and Vietnam
Local Holocaust survivors share their message for the next generation
Also on Arizona Spotlight: A conversation with the director of Arizona Theatre Company's "Nina Simone: 4 Women"; and conversations with Pam Fessler and Henry Barajas, who will be featured at the Tucson Festival of Books.
Return to "The Princess Bride" 35 years later, with actor Cary Elwes.
Also on Arizona Spotlight: Adiba Nelson leads a roundtable discussion with three Black women artists, and "Stories That Soar!" tells of a boy's difficult journey to see his father.
Legal settlement is a win for Pascua Yaqui voting rights.
Also on Arizona Spotlight: Understanding Lewy Body Dementia; and remembering NPR broadcaster Neal Conan through his love of comic books.
Report: ICE Detainees On Hunger Strikes Subject To Force-Feeding
The report, released by the advocacy groups Physicians for Human Rights and the ACLU, uses more than 10,000 pages of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
The NPR Student Podcast Challenge searches for the voices of tomorrow.
Also on Arizona Spotlight: Brenna Wynn Greer follows the history of Black image makers in her book "Represented"; and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks reflects on her novel of life during the bubonic plague, called "Year of Wonders".
