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Saturday sports: UConn and S.C. in women's NCAA final; men's Final Four tonight

South Carolina and UConn face off later today in the women's NCAA basketball final. The men's contenders will be decided tonight. Plus, the men's World Cup soccer matchups.

The difficulties the superintendent of the year sees in this school year and forward

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Curtis Cain, the 2022 National Superintendent of the Year, about the challenges in the current and incoming school year.

South African actress Khanyi Mbau, one of the stars of Netflix's new original reality show set in Africa, <em>Young, Famous & African. </em>

Opinion: 5 Things I'd change about Netflix's 'Young, Famous & African'

If Dr. Ifeanyi Nsofor could have a hand in creating another season of the reality show, he'd ditch the 'Real Housewives' drama and get the cast to talk about COVID vaccines.

Ralph Lauren has released a limited fashion collection that collaborates with two leading historically Black colleges. It draws on the work of an all-Black creative team.

New Ralph Lauren collection explores collegiate style on historically Black campuses

A young Black designer got Ralph Lauren to dedicate a new limited collection to the swanky collegiate style of HBCUs.

A sign shows the price of gas outside of a gas station in Washington, D.C, on March 8. Annual inflation is likely to have hit another 40-year high in February, yet the data won't fully capture the most recent surge in energy prices after Russia invaded Ukraine.

Inflation hits another 40-year high. The war in Ukraine could make it worse

Annual inflation climbed to a new four-decade high in February, with consumer prices up 7.9% from a year ago. The increase does not reflect most of the recent jump in gasoline prices.

Those who haven't fled Ukraine hunker down in makeshift bomb shelters

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Kristina Berdynskykh, a reporter with a daily English-language news site in Kyiv, who like other Ukrainians who haven't fled the country, is sheltering underground.

In Soweto, Mandela's Childhood Home Is Site Of Celebration

The great anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela died late Friday night in Johannesburg. South Africans woke up to the news this morning and crowds gathered outside the former Mandela family home in Soweto township. This is the home where he lived before he was arrested, before he was imprisoned for those long years, before he became an icon. The mood among the hundreds of people outside the house and on the surrounding blocks was anything but somber.

A Reminder, Three-Minute Fiction Round 9 Is Open

Weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz checks back in with the winner of the last round of Three-Minute Fiction, Carrie MacKillop of Charlotte, Vt. Round 9 of the writing contest has begun and runs through next Sunday. Listeners can submit their story online at www.npr.org/threeminutefiction.

Nastia Stefanovich, a volunteer at the distribution center in Lviv for goods donated for Ukrainians in need, points out the piles of clothes that have been arriving.

Donated clothes help in Ukraine. But there's one thing aid experts like better

While welcome, some donations don't address the needs of displaced and homeless Ukrainians who've lost nearly everything they own. Several aid groups are turning to a new tactic: cash aid.

The Plague In Oregon Is Pretty Much The Same As The Medieval Version

The plague has reportedly popped up in Oregon. It's the same disease that killed millions in the Middle Ages. Only now we know how to treat it.

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