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The composer, whose music fused many styles with a singular voice, constantly broke new ground. He was the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize for music.

A new television series explores the 2012 killing of the 17-year-old in Sanford, Fla., and the subsequent trial that sparked the Black Lives Matter movement.

A U.S. Marshals probe of the Cuyahoga County jail uncovered conditions so severe that they put the safety of staff and inmates at risk, according to a report released Wednesday morning. Among the Marshals’ findings were that the jail used food as a form of punishment, that meals failed to meet nutritional standards, that inmates received inadequate medical care and that defendants awaiting court were placed in cells without working toilets or running water.

Trump says asylum-seekers must remain in Mexico while their claims are processed. Rachel Martin talks to Theresa Cardinal Brown of the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

Later this month, Sierra Day and Deonte Lewis will be sentenced after a jury convicted them last week on aggravated murder and other charges in the death of four-year-old Aniya Day-Garrett. She died one year ago this week, after what prosecutors say was years of abuse at the hands of her mother and her mother’s boyfriend. A state investigation into Aniya’s death concluded the Cuyahoga County Division of Children and Family Services failed to properly follow procedures in the case.

There’s movement at the Statehouse to re-think Ohio's process of taking over failing schools. House Bill 70 was pushed through in one day in 2015, and local school officials have been pushing back ever since, saying state-run Academic Distress Commissions and the CEOs they hire are undemocratic, circumventing elected school boards. Now, there are signs at the state level that politicians and education leaders are hearing, and acting upon, these concerns. Ideastream’s Darrielle Snipes joins me.

In his new book, the literary scholar presents an absorbing, necessary look at the "Redemption" era, in which the hard-fought gains of African-Americans were rolled back by embittered Southern whites.

Carter had a late-career renaissance when she performed for New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center in 1992. Critic Kevin Whitehead says the recording showcases how much feeling Carter put in her singing.

Staff at Boston's Logan International informed customers of prolonged delays Wednesday night — only to eventually board the waiting Wow aircraft themselves and shut the door.

In Lagos, street vendors say that they touch and grab their female customers to drum up sales. A group called Market March Movement has formed to protest against the street harassment.