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Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., chaired a hearing on new laws that restrict classroom discussion of gender, sexual orientation and race. Students, parents and teachers are among those who spoke.

Novelist Susan Straight's new novel, A Million Nightingales, was shaped by historical documents that showed a South Carolina owned her own child in the 1800s.

As summer dwindles away and back-to-school time approaches, an exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum looks at life around the schoolhouse in the 19th century.

A new documentary takes a loving look at the Silver Belles, a leggy troupe of dancers who drew crowds to famous nightclubs and theatres during the height of the Harlem Renaissance. Decades later, the women are still dancing, and still drawing the crowds.

The World Trade Organization put an end to five years of international trade talks after they failed to resolve disputes over farm aid. Adam Davidson, NPR's international business reporter, puts the events into perspective.

Each Thursday we read from listeners' emails. Pluto's demotion from full-fledged planet to "dwarf planet" has brought in a lot of letters. We hear your creative suggestion of a new status for Pluto. Also, comments on a mixup in a cemetery, and new lyrics for the old musical "The Fantasticks".

Tom Verlaine's rock band Television came of age alongside peers like the Talking Heads and Patti Smith. But for years, Verlaine has been an elusive presence on the music scene — his recent release of two CDs is his first public work in 14 years.

The international AIDS conference in Toronto is looking at the public's continuing fear of being tested -- one of the main barriers to treatment around the world and in the United States. In Houston, for example, African Americans live in denial of HIV, even though many of them may have the disease without knowing it.

Troops of baboons are ransacking homes and frightening residents in small towns along the South African coast. Some humans are fighting back by killing the animals. Conservationists say the baboons cannot survive a war with humans, but many locals say they're fed up.

Atlanta University Center's Woodruff Library will be the custodian of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s papers. Local donors joined forces to avoid a public auction that might have sent the documents to another city.