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NPR political correspondent Sarah McCammon grew up in a deeply evangelical family near Kansas City in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Later on, when she was assigned to cover Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign, her life experiences helped inform her professional career. In conversation before a live audience in STLPR’s Community Room, Jason Rosenbaum talks with McCammon about her new book, "The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church."

Fifty years after his death, Bruce Lee’s status as one of the world’s most influential martial artists endures through his work as an actor and his philosophical teachings. In her 2020 book “Be Water, My Friend,” Lee’s daughter Shannon Lee speaks to principles that guided her father’s life as well as her own. She joined host Elaine Cha for a conversation before a live audience, taped in March 2024 at the Duane Reed Gallery in St. Louis.

Black American activists have expressed solidarity with Palestinian activists in the months since the war in Gaza began in October of 2023. In St. Louis, the relationship between Black and Palestinian American activists strengthened notably in 2014, after Michael Brown, Jr. — a Black teenager — was fatally shot in Ferguson, Missouri by then-Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. But the connection between the two marginalized groups started well before then — and has evolved over the decades. St. Louis University Professor Chris Tinson shares the long history of Black and Palestinian solidarity alongside St. Louis activists Ohun Ashe and Omar Badran.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, women ventured to Egypt’s deserts as writers, excavators and collectors. They were foundational to the study of ancient Egypt, but their contributions were intentionally marginalized. Missouri S&T historian Kathleen Sheppard uplifts the women who shaped the field in her forthcoming book “Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age.”

Dive into a good beach read this summer with recommendations from St. Louis librarians Tammy Albohaire and Ted Reidy.

When House Minority Leader Crystal Quade first won election to her Springfield-based seat in 2016, her fellow Democrats suffered catastrophic losses for state legislative and statewide posts. After eight years of near total GOP control of Missouri state government, Quade believes the state’s voters are ready to move on and place Democrats like her in the governor’s mansion. She joins the Politically Speaking Hour on St. Louis on the Air to discuss her candidacy ahead of the Aug. 6 primary.