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Ayesha Rascoe

@ayesharascoe.bsky.social

Host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday, Editor and Author of HBCU Made, Mother of 3, Proud Howard U graduate

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07.12.2025 11:49 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Kids are highly supervised in physical spaces, but not online. Here's what that does NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to researcher Eli Stark-Elster about the imbalance of how adults supervise children in physical spaces versus digitally.

I was interviewed this week by @ayesharascoe.bsky.social on @npr.org about the evolution of play and what it tells us about how kids are using digital spaces. Here's the link!

www.npr.org/2025/11/23/n...

23.11.2025 14:36 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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This week on Explain It to Me: the future of housing. We talk to @ayesharascoe.bsky.social about buying a house with her bestie, @rcobooth.bsky.social about the new options out there, and @jerusalem.bsky.social on why homeownership just might be overrated. open.spotify.com/episode/1JUU...

16.11.2025 14:30 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
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Hey friends, grab a cup of coffee and listen to @patrickhorvath.bsky.social talk with NPR's @ayesharascoe.bsky.social about Beneath the Tress Where Nobody Sees.

www.npr.org/2025/11/16/n...

16.11.2025 18:39 — 👍 48    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 1

Certainly, I think food banks are in desperate need of help right now. They just can’t provide the level they of benefits provided by the government.

02.11.2025 15:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m sorry to hear that, hope you can receive the help you need.

02.11.2025 15:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Charities cannot fill the gap left by the disruption in SNAP benefits!

02.11.2025 15:22 — 👍 78    🔁 39    💬 1    📌 5
Ayesha Rascoe: "One thing you think about, it's like, is this really a problem?"

Ayesha Rascoe: "One thing you think about, it's like, is this really a problem?"

Ayesha Rascoe: "Okay, well, eventually maybe nothing will be left, but maybe that's what the Lord intended."

Ayesha Rascoe: "Okay, well, eventually maybe nothing will be left, but maybe that's what the Lord intended."

@ayesharascoe.bsky.social dropping truth bombs on the pending global population collapse on @npr.org this morning! 🙂

Ayesha Rascoe: "One thing you think about, it's like, is this really a problem?

"Okay, well, eventually maybe nothing will be left, but maybe that's what the Lord intended."

02.11.2025 12:31 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Is the Future of Domestic Happiness Buying a House With Your Best Friend? Six months ago, best friends Ayesha Rascoe and Jasmin Melvin, both divorced single moms, bought a house together. Here’s how it’s going.

I bought a house with my bestie and I talked to @thecut.com about it!

www.thecut.com/article/broo...

11.10.2025 16:45 — 👍 37    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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On Oct. 1st NPR and public media lost its federal funding. But, we still here!

05.10.2025 15:35 — 👍 85    🔁 30    💬 3    📌 1
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I’ve had 3 kids, so I know how challenging pregnancy can be. So it was really important for me to have Dr. Judette Louis on Weekend Edition Sunday to explain what the actual science is about the risks of Tylenol during pregnancy. Spoiler alert: it’s safe, but always talk to your doctor.

28.09.2025 11:53 — 👍 38    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Earlybirds Club DC was lit for this elderly millennial!

21.09.2025 17:14 — 👍 48    🔁 1    💬 6    📌 0
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Sunday Puzzle: First and last initials NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WRVO listener Stephanie O'Neil, of Jamesville, New York, along with Weekend Edition Puzzle Master Will Shortz.

NPR's @ayesharascoe.bsky.social plays the puzzle with WRVO listener Stephanie O'Neil, of Jamesville, New York, along with Weekend Edition Puzzle Master Will Shortz.

21.09.2025 16:43 — 👍 48    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks! I love doing the puzzle!

17.09.2025 12:09 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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DC Mayor Bowser changes her tone on Trump as crackdown ramps up | CNN Politics After Donald Trump won the presidential election, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser flew to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate to see him.

Mayor Bowser’s response to the federalization of the DC police illustrate how she’s often trying to communicate multiple messages at once as she faces perhaps the biggest test to date of her leadership.

Our latest 👇🏾

www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/p...

13.08.2025 11:25 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Hosted Weekend Edition with help from bestselling author, J.B. Fletcher, this morning!

18.05.2025 14:13 — 👍 42    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Growing up, I never imagined I would be the voice of anything, much less the voice of the White House Correspondents Dinner! But, look at God! So grateful to be part of journalism’s big night. ✨✨

27.04.2025 13:36 — 👍 63    🔁 1    💬 4    📌 0

It did. Just a quick segment.

23.04.2025 22:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Serving looks and analysis today on CNN

23.04.2025 16:36 — 👍 99    🔁 4    💬 4    📌 1
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Tracy Chapman on re-releasing her self-titled 1988 debut album on vinyl NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Tracy Chapman about standing the test of time and the re-release on vinyl of her self-titled 1988 debut album.

Tracy Chapman is grateful so many find inspiration in her music. And you can play her songs at protests, but she's so much more than a "protest singer." She spoke to @ayesharascoe.bsky.social for the re-release of her debut album and told her why she still has hope.

www.npr.org/2025/04/06/n...

06.04.2025 12:52 — 👍 42    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 1
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A Home But Not A Cure : Up First from NPR Thirty years ago, housing activists began an unusual experiment to help people struggling with homelessness and chronic addiction. They decided to get people into housing first and then try to help th...

I talked with @ayesharascoe.bsky.social of @npr.org to try to infuse some detail into the debate about Housing First.

I used Seattle as a lens into Housing First's past, present, and future.

You can listen here:
www.npr.org/2025/02/16/1...

18.02.2025 23:17 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Had some special guests with me at CNN today! My girls!

17.02.2025 17:57 — 👍 94    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0
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A new documentary seeks to give singing great Luther Vandross his due NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with director Dawn Porter. Her new documentary, "Luther: Never Too Much," tracks the life and music of the singing great Luther Vandross.

Really love hearing @ayesharascoe.bsky.social with powerhouse film director Dawn Porter, talking about her new documentary, "Luther: Never Too Much” www.npr.org/2025/02/09/n...

09.02.2025 14:06 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Day 1 of #BlackHistoryMonth and im snuggled on the sofa reading HBCU Made by @ayesharascoe.bsky.social with a belly full.

01.02.2025 19:43 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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On Inside Politics today and it’s also the pub day for the paperback edition of my book, HBCU Made!!

21.01.2025 17:16 — 👍 59    🔁 4    💬 5    📌 0
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Why critics say Meta's chatbot is 'digital blackface' NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Karen Attiah of the Washington Post about her experience with Meta's new AI chatbot "Liv," and what she calls "digital blackface."

I spoke to @ayesharascoe.bsky.social for @npr.org about Meta’s digital blackface bot, Liv.

We probably haven’t seen the last of her!

Why critics say Meta's chatbot is 'digital blackface'

www.npr.org/2025/01/12/n...

13.01.2025 22:16 — 👍 104    🔁 28    💬 6    📌 1
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I’m excited that my book, HBCU Made, is coming out in paperback on January 21st! To celebrate, I get to chat with my dear friend @delecewrites.bsky.social at Politics and Prose in Union Market in DC!

06.01.2025 22:40 — 👍 34    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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Was honored to host the WABJ Gala last weekend with the incomparable Guy Lambert. So many wonderful friends and colleagues were honored!

11.12.2024 14:31 — 👍 18    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Awww, thanks Ryan!

10.12.2024 01:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nick Frost is an absolutely lovely man. You can hear him chat with @ayesharascoe.bsky.social about his bizarre, bloody new horror comedy GET AWAY this Sunday on @npr.org 's Weekend Edition. It's a real treat!

04.12.2024 18:29 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

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