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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NPR's Juana Summers talks with Haili Blassingame about her debut, They All Fall in Love at the End, about a young woman navigating the chaos of recent years and her polyamorous relationships.
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A program focused on HIV prevention specifically for adolescent girls and young women ended following funding cuts by the Trump administration. What do women who benefited from DREAMS have to say?
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A medical facility run by a Catholic association from Italy offers historical perspective on the course of the AIDS epidemic in Mozambique, where over 10 percent of the population lives with HIV.
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Ras Baraka, mayor of Newark, N.J., about the protests taking place outside the Delaney Hall Detention Facility, which have grown violent in recent days.
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The band Boards of Canada has a large and dedicated community of fans. Their 13-year-long wait for a new album is now over.
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with filmmaker Spike Lee about his excitement that his favorite basketball team, the New York Knicks, making it to the NBA finals.
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NPR's Juana Summers talks with NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson about his organization's Out of Bounds campaign that draws a connection between Black student athletes and voting rights.
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In South Africa, a nonprofit organization is rebooting a popular soap opera that once dramatized and educated viewers about HIV and AIDS. It's only part of their feminist mission.
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A ProPublica investigation by Robert Faturechi says White House adviser Peter Navarro asked the Pentagon to approve a loan to a rare-earth magnet company in which Donald Trump Jr. has a stake.
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Changes to U.S. global health funding fall heavily on stigmatized and marginalized populations like sex workers in South Africa, who can no longer access clinics specifically serving them.