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NPR's Michel Martin speaks to Ivory Toldson, the NAACP's director of education innovation and research, about why some Black and Latinx parents are hesitant to send their kids back to school.

Broadway is coming roaring back on Sept. 2 and one of the musicals to open that day is Hadestown. We follow the cast and crew as they remount the show and celebrate opening night.

Fiery singer-songwriter Sinéad O'Connor became a star in the MTV era, rewriting the rules while courting controversy. Now, she reclaims an influential legacy with a new memoir, Rememberings.

A researcher recently found a decades-old recording of an Australian musk duck named Ripper. Carel Ten Cate says the duck is saying what sounds like, "You bloody fool."

Cartoonist Sam Nakahira details the history of how K-pop became a global phenomenon.

Twenty years since the attacks of Sept. 11, it is not hard to find enduring support for Osama bin Laden across Pakistan — the country where he spent his final years in hiding.

Hospitals in that part of the state are under crisis standards of care — rationing services to the most in need. The area is skeptical of COVID-19 controls and has the nation's lowest vaccination rate

Even though the limit is now three children in China, parents still carry the painful experiences they endured when officials aggressively enforced the one-child rule.

Ashley M. Jones is Alabama's youngest and first Black poet laureate. Her new book Reparations Now! discusses America's history of Black oppression, and asks for more than monetary repairs.

The Taliban's ideology has distant links to India. Scholars say Afghanistan's new leaders might listen to clerics in the birthplace of Deobandi Islam, though the clerics deny ties with the Taliban.