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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Texas Republicans have unveiled a proposed redraw of the state's congressional map that is likely to help the party pick up additional seats.
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The National Transportation Safety Board opened a three-day investigative hearing Wednesday on the January midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, which killed 67 people.
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Some of the same podcasters who backed President Trump last November have grown frustrated over the handling of the Epstein case, saying officials haven't keep their word to make more details public.
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with David Milliband, head of the International Rescue Committee, about his call to allow more aid to enter Gaza amid a food crisis on the verge of famine.
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NPR's Juana Summers talks with Rax King about her new collection of essays, Sloppy. King is now three years sober from alcohol and cocaine, and the book documents her journey getting clean.
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One of the nation's oldest Civil Rights organization warns the Trump administration's policies have thrust the country into a "state of emergency" for antidiscrimination policies, personal freedoms and black economic advancement.
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President Trump's nomination of Emil Bove to the federal bench exposes a rift in the conservative legal movement.
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A burial site with about 100 mostly unmarked graves has existed for over a century in a Maryland field — most likely the resting place of Black boys confined in a segregated detention center.
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Tom Michael, general manager of Boise State Public Radio, about what the cuts to federal public media funding mean for his station.
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Nike is dropping three of its most popular basketball silhouettes just in time for the WNBA All-Star Weekend in Indianapolis — including New York Liberty star Sabrina Ionescu's Sabrina 3s.