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Former basketball star and ESPN reporter Jay Williams has a new podcast with NPR. It's about getting beyond a successful person's resume and learning about their motivations and back stories.

In a speech delivered Wednesday, the attorney general said the Justice Department "will follow the facts wherever they lead. ...The actions we have taken thus far will not be our last."

A new book explores the life of Justice John Marshall Harlan, who wrote the dissenting opinion in the Supreme Court case that upheld the principle of racial segregation.

Nottage, the only woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice, has a new play on Broadway, an opera at Lincoln Center Theater and a Michael Jackson musical opening soon.

Baranski started her career in theater and now co-stars in The Gilded Age on HBO. "I was a passionate acting student and nothing was going to stop me," she says. Originally broadcast June 25, 2020.

A University of Alabama building will share the names of a Klan leader and its first Black student

On the new album Pushin' Against a Stone, the Tennessean surveys a spectrum of her home state's signature sounds. She tells NPR's Audie Cornish that she got over old anxieties about her singing voice by embracing it as a storytelling tool.

Put up to protect buildings from civil unrest, the boards have become vehicles of expression for devastated and angry Minnesotans.

Young will take over as the next director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in January. He tells NPR, "We're in this really exciting Black renaissance."

A visitor to the Metropolitan Museum Of Art in New York — where Lawrence's series, Struggle, is currently on view — helped identify a missing painting by the Modernist master.