Juana Summers
Juana Summers is a political correspondent for NPR covering race, justice and politics. 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.
She is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism and is originally from Kansas City, Mo.
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Democrats have a deal on revised voting rights legislation, but a major roadblock remains in the evenly divided chamber with Republicans ready to halt the bill's progress. -
Thousands of activists are in Washington today for a march calling for federal action to protect voting rights. Bills in Congress are stalled as GOP-led states enact voting restrictions.
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More than 50 years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, activists are marching to fight federal legislation that they say will make it harder to vote.
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The West Virginia Democratic senator's opposition to eliminating the legislative filibuster essentially dooms Democrats' chances of passing a sweeping package on election reform and voting rights. -
Negotiators on Capitol Hill continue to work on a police overhaul bill named after Floyd, which President Biden had hoped to sign by now. -
After a year in which they were galvanized by a surge of racially motivated attacks, Asian Americans are seeking — and wielding — more political power. -
President Biden addressed how rare it is for a police officer to be convicted for killing a Black person in America, and talked about the need to overhaul the criminal justice system.
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The president prioritizes racial justice while also acting as an ally of law enforcement, and the trial's end could be the first significant flashpoint over race and policing in Biden's presidency. -
President Biden has pledged to help end the epidemic of Black men being killed by police, but also presents himself as an ally of law enforcement.
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The legislation would create a commission that would study the effects of slavery and racial discrimination, hold hearings and recommend "appropriate remedies" to Congress.
