Tanya Ballard Brown
Tanya Ballard Brown is an editor for NPR. She joined the organization in 2008.
Projects Tanya has worked on include The War On Drugs: 50 Years Later; How Your State Wins Or Loses Power Through The Census (video); 19th Amendment: 'A Start, Not A Finish' For Suffrage (video); Being Black in America; 'They Still Take Pictures With Them As If The Person's Never Passed'; Abused and Betrayed: People With Intellectual Disabilities And An Epidemic of Sexual Assault; Months After Pulse Shooting: 'There Is A Wound On The Entire Community'; Staving Off Eviction; Stuck in the Middle: Work, Health and Happiness at Midlife; Teenage Diaries Revisited; School's Out: The Cost of Dropping Out (video); Americandy: Sweet Land Of Liberty; Living Large: Obesity In America; the Cities Project; Farm Fresh Foods; Dirty Money; Friday Night Lives, and WASP: Women With Wings In WWII.
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In the aftermath of two highly publicized police shootings and the deaths of five Dallas police officers, scenes of protest and prayer have unfolded around the country. Here is a glimpse. -
Already one of the greatest tennis players ever, Serena Williams won her seventh Wimbledon title in straight sets on Saturday. Later, she and her sister Venus won their sixth doubles championship. -
Law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation have identified the gunman killed in Dallas as Micah Xavier Johnson. The Pentagon says Johnson was a military veteran who served in Afghanistan. -
Correspondents, editors and producers from our newsroom share the pieces that have kept them reading, using the #NPRreads hashtag. Each weekend, we highlight some of the best stories. -
Ten months and 10,000 flag submissions later, New Zealanders decided to just keep what they had. -
While experts focus on trying to explain the stock market's jumps and dives, we spend a little time cutting through the bull to get some different answers.
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"When you don't reflect the real world, too much talent gets trashed," the Golden Globe winner says. Elba is scheduled to speak to senior TV executives and more than 100 members of Parliament.
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The pole went from the garden decor of two golden-age Hollywood actors to the basement of a Hawaii museum. On Thursday, it was returned to Alaska tribal members. -
The city — one of the world's most polluted — closed a major stretch of road to private cars for a few hours Thursday. Officials hope car-free days will help clean the air.
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Also this week: How Iran's supreme leader controlled domestic criticism of the nuclear deal, and the parallel to debate over the deal in the U.S.
