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NPR's Michel Martin talks with radio documentarian Eve Abrams about her podcast "Unprisoned," which explores issues around the criminal legal system in New Orleans.

Host Michel Martin talks to Jason Williams, who was just elected to become district attorney for Orleans Parish in Louisiana.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with law professor Edward Foley about the Electoral College process and the long-term ramifications of Republican efforts to overturn the election results.

Pfizer may now start shipping the inoculation to hospitals across the country. Health care workers and people in nursing homes and assisted living centers will be given priority for the vaccine.

Dr. Chizoba Barbara Wonodi of Johns Hopkins University explains why a strategy to vaccinate everyone may not be the best approach to fighting the virus in lower-income countries such as Nigeria.

Canada joins the United Kingdom and the United States as the first Western countries to provide the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, as the coronavirus pandemic rages toward winter.

"Our war against the virus is not over yet, but this week we're taking a major step toward our eventual victory," Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said.

As the pandemic has forced many to work from home, some are starting to feel as if they are living at work, putting in more hours and being stressed more than they want to be.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with the Rev. William Lamar IV of Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, D.C., about the church's legacy of affirming Black lives following a weekend of vandalism.

People being unable to gather or see the bodies of people who died of COVID-19 is having profound psychological effects that will last for years, says psychologist Christy Denckla of Harvard.