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For musicians like Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer, trying to break down doors in the folk and country music scenes has been a long road. A festival in Durham this weekend aims to remedy that.

When Democrat Val Demings served in congress alongside Republican Ted Yoho, the pair did not get along. Demings and Yoho recently sat down for a StoryCorps One Small Step conversation.

Russia launched a deadly strike on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. Trump says he wants peace quickly. And, NPR looks inside Sudan's capital city of Khartoum after two years of war.

After much volatility because of Trump's trade war, the stock markets responded positively to a softened tone toward both China and the Fed chair. This, plus four more takeaways from this week.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Tina Knowles, the mother of artists Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and Solange Knowles, about her new memoir, "Matriarch."

Rockledge Hospital closed this week leaving the community without its emergency department. While ICE enforcement and immigration reform are at the forefront of Florida policies, we visit classes where thousands of Central Floridians prep for their high-stakes U.S. citizenship test and interview. Two former members of Congress, Democrat Val Demings and Republican Ted Yoho, sit down for a One Small Step conversation. We learn how a group of Black artists known for their depictions of Florida landscapes in the 1950s is inspiring artwork being done by students across Central Florida today.

The city of Orlando turns 150 years old in July and a celebration is underway in the form of an exhibit at the Orlando County Regional History Center, Orlando Collected.

Hope Florida is currently facing scrutiny over its funding including an inquiry by the Florida House.

The pre-dawn sky will feature a glowing crescent moon, joined by planets Mercury, Venus and Saturn.

Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi and Will Poulter star in the drama On Swift Horses, while Ben Affleck reprises his role as a money-laundering expert in the action thriller The Accountant 2.