Juana Summers
Juana Summers is a political reporter for NPR covering demographics and culture. 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. Summers is also a competitive pinball player and sits on the board of the International Flipper Pinball Association (IFPA), the governing body for competitive pinball events around the world.
She is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism and a native of Kansas City, Mo.
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An NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll shows 1 in 4 Black people do not plan to get vaccinated. Despite the attention on concern among Blacks, nearly 30% of whites feel the same way.
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"This pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they're doing," Obama told students from historically black colleges and universities.
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As organizers across the country are delaying or scrapping large events due to the coronavirus, Democrats are actively weighing contingency plans for their August convention.
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The president has offered no evidence that the Chinese were responsible for the pandemic, and conceded, "If it was a mistake, a mistake is a mistake."
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Surgeon General Jerome Adams made a personal appeal to communities of color, hit hard by coronavirus, to follow the White House task force recommendations. Watch his remarks.