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Each year, the Tiny Desk Contest attracts thousands of impressive unsigned artists from across the country — including Z The Author, who sent in a song inspired by 2020's Black Lives Matter protests.

One of the world's largest regattas, the Barcolana in Trieste, Italy, held its 69th race this week. It is a time to celebrate the good life.

WBEZ's segregation and inequality reporter Natalie Moore remembers Chicago activist and historian Timuel Black, who died this week at the age of 102.

The town of Taft, Calif. celebrates its oil drilling heritage every five years with a festival called Oildorado. Among the events, an "oil field skills" competition to find the best roustabout.

There is misery in Ethiopia as the civil war there continues and the U.N warns of famine.

A high-stakes legal back-and-forth is playing out over Texas' restrictive new abortion law.

In a lawsuit, more than a dozen women say Liberty University put them at risk in part because of its code of conduct emphasizing sexual purity. Their lawyer says more women are coming forward.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has become the poster child of a new generation of corporate executives willing to leverage their status to wade into high-profile social issues.

An FDA advisory committee recommends people who received the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine be given a booster shot.

In Rutherford, Tenn. fallout continues after a Nashville Public Radio and Propublica investigation found the juvenile justice system detained kids at a rate ten times higher than the state average.