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In 1957, Dorothy Counts-Scoggins integrated her school in Charlotte, N.C. Now students at her old campus unveiled a plaque to honor her.

Watfa and Jeelan are finally free of the ISIS woman who kept them captive for the past five years. But she's the only "family" they can remember and they want to go back to her.

It's the time of year when high schools are saying goodbye to its seniors. And with graduation ceremonies come commencement speeches by top students.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Carmarion D. Anderson, executive director of the Dallas-based non-profit group Black Transwomen Inc., about a string of violent attacks against trans women in Dallas.

Tim Kreider says the longest relationship of his adult life was with the stray cat. He writes about that relationship and others in his essay collection. Originally broadcast Feb. 26, 2018.

State lawmakers won’t vote on a $15 minimum wage bill until next year.Senate President David McBride (D-Hawk's Nest) says the earliest the legislation…

Springsteen's new album connects to a stream of pop balladry that emerged in tandem with Hollywood's turn in the late 1960s toward hippie antiheroes and modern masculinity's fatalistic drift.

Earlier, Secretary of State Pompeo said Iran is using "terror, bloodshed and extortion" in an attempt to pressure the U.S. to ease what he described as a "maximum pressure" campaign against Iran.

Legislation that would raise Delaware’s minimum wage to $15 an hour made it out of a Senate committee Wednesday.State Sen. Darius Brown’s bill would phase…

The loss from the 2008 Universal Studios backlot fire was thought to be a few movie sets and film duplicates. But Jody Rosen reports that it was one of the largest losses in recorded music's history.