Wild pigs are a nuisance in Texas. There are more than 1.5 million that roam the state and do a lot of damage to crops. One company has come up with one way to try to eliminate some hogs: shooting them from helicopters.

Helicopter Hog Hunting Takes Off To Eliminate A Texas Nuisance

In Texas, where half of all public school students are Latino, the State Board of Education (SBOE) is in the process of approving a controversial new Mexican American studies textbook.

Mexican American Textbook Wars in Texas

Do you know that feeling when a song moves you so much, you just feel like you have to add your own voice? Mexican culture has an answer to that: a cathartic, joyous yell called a grito.

In Mariachi music, a distinctive yell that speaks to the soul.

A Stanford computer science major developed a free tool to help Americans take Equifax to small claims court.

The Robot Lawyer

Laura Smith writes women have been an integral part of white supremacist movements throughout history.

Women's Role in White Supremacy

After Tropical Storm Allison devastated the Houston Medical Center in 2001, the area’s 21 hospitals banded together to make sure it never happens again.

The Technology Keeping the Houston Medical Center Dry

A study found adults see black girls as ‘less innocent,’ Jonita Davis says that’s shocking everyone but black moms

Why are Black Girls Seen as Less Innocent?

Match highlights at Wimbledon are selected and assembled by robots. Artificial intelligence is used to pick the most dramatic moments, making those judgments by crowd noise and facial expressions.

Wimbledon, Steeped In Tradition, Embraces Artificial Intelligence

London is at the center of a very loud mystery. A colony of feral parakeets has taken over the British capital. Nobody knows how the small, green birds originating from South Asia and Central Africa came to be in the capital city. While some Londoners consider the foreign birds to be a threat to native birds, others have adopted the colorful parakeet as an unofficial city mascot.

A colony of feral parakeets has invaded London

Airports can be really overwhelming with people with autism. In the U.K, Gatwick Airport travel more comfortable for people with hidden disabilities.

Gatwick Airport's Sensory Room

When you’re sixteen or seventeen do you really think about what you’re doing and who you’re doing it with? Sometimes, sure. But not all the time. There’s science to show that teens don’t think like adults. Their brains aren’t fully developed. That means two things. First that they didn’t have the same ability as an adult to consider the consequences of their actions, and second, that in time, when their brain does become fully developed, they can be rehabilitated.

For these and many reasons, the US Supreme Court issued a series of decisions that teens can’t be sentenced to death and they can’t be given an automatic life sentence without the possibility of parole. But what does that mean? How long can a state send a teen to prison before they have a chance at parole?  

If you break the law and are sent to prison as a teen, how long do we wait to give you another chance? This week on Life of the Law, Reporter Brenda Salinas is going to tell us about Ashley Ervin.

Life Of The Law - Kids Behind Bars

Greg Glassman, the outspoken founder and CEO of CrossFit, resigned Tuesday, days after he made inflammatory remarks about the nationwide protests in support of Black Lives Matter. Athletes, gyms, Reebok and other athletic companies have been distancing themselves from the CrossFit brand over the controversy.

Crossfit Ceo Steps Down After His Racial Remarks Led Reebok, Others To Cut Ties

It was a joy to produce this little audio postcard for The Takeaway about a socially distant dance party happening in my neighborhood in Brooklyn.

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The Takeaway: Finding Joy in Brooklyn

I'm Brenda Patricia Salinas Baker. I'm a trilingual public radio producer living in New York. I was awarded the highly competitive Kroc Fellowship at NPR in 2012. Since then I have reported pieces for NPR's flagship programs, Marketplace and PRI's The World as well as a number of podcasts including Life of the Law. I have a B.A. in Economics from Columbia University and I'm pursing my MFA in Creative Writing from The Writer's Foundry. I was one of the founding producers of the Texas Standard, a daily news magazine show that broadcasts state-wide from KUT in Austin. I helped re-launch NPR's Latino USA as a full-hour show and have reported original stories for the show as a freelancer. I was a founding producer of the personalized radio start-up 60dB where I reported original stories and helped publishers bring their print-pieces to audio life. I'm now working at Google where my team is re-imagining the future of radio.

I'm committed to building a media landscape where every woman of color has the power to tell her story. I am proud to be an NPR Next Generation mentor, a board member on the Association of Independents in Radio, an Advisory Council member of the PRX/PRI Podcast Creators’ Program and a coach to young woman breaking into the world of public radio. The world needs our stories.

Brenda Salinas Baker

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