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The celebrated jazz singer performs a selection of popular early jazz standards at the GB Juke Joint Studio.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Robin Toma, executive director of the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations, about a 71% increase in reported hate crimes in Los Angeles last year.

California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that Black employees at Tesla's Fremont plant in the state have faced racism and harassment.

Newly sworn-in Census Bureau Director Robert Santos told NPR it's important to make sure there are policies in place to better protect the agency from any future political interference.

Voters in rural Pennsylvania were crucial to electing President Trump. A year after he took office, they are mostly pleased with how Trump has executed his presidency.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean of Harvard Radcliffe Institute, about President Biden's historic nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Steven Reed, the first Black mayor of Montgomery, Ala.

NPR talked to people involved in the upcoming Supreme Court case about redistricting in Alabama to learn more about the battle over voting rights and gerrymandering in the state.

Curator Aaron Bryant recently spoke to NPR about his favorite images in the Smithsonian's collection. Among them is a rare album of Black soldiers from the Civil War.

NPR's Leila Fadel travels to the Polish-Ukrainian border to talk with some of the tens of thousands of Ukrainians who have fled their homes in recent days as Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine.