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Since the Harlem Renaissance, African-American musicians have portrayed black history as extended musical works. Jazz is full of such long-form compositions. Hear five examples from composers such as Oliver Nelson, Wynton Marsalis and Duke Ellington.

Volunteers for the trial put an arm over a box with hundreds of mosquitoes carrying a genetically modified malaria parasite. Here's why they did it that way — and why the trial holds promise.

It was a banner year for the acoustic guitar. NPR Music partner Folk Alley presents the best the genre had to offer.

Heat waves today are not the same as 60 years ago. The warming climate is making them more intense and they're lasting longer. Here are five ways you can beat the heat and stay cool.

Pop musician and reality dating series host Betty Who answers your questions on finding love, keeping love and knowing when to walk away.

Hundreds of people applauded as Greenwood, Miss., unveiled a larger-than-life statue of Emmett Till on Friday, not far from where white men kidnapped and killed the Black teen in 1955.

Following the resignation of Liz Truss as Britain's fourth prime minister in a little over six years, her Conservative Party — in power since 2010 — is racing to select a replacement.

At the center of two cases to be argued over two days is Section 230, which provides tech companies a legal shield over what users post online.

Iola May Creamer got her first ipad when she was 98 - a Mother’s Day gift from her daughter. Now, at 103-years-old, she’s on her second iPad and has accumulated over eleven hundred friends on Facebook, where this spunky centenarian shares reflections on her life growing up and living in Greene County. Renee Wilde visited Iola May whose family calls her "Iolamazing" - at her home in Jamestown, Ohio.

Sheryl Lee Ralph opens up about how she rediscovered her ability later in life, playing Barbara Howard in Abbott Elementary, and how she thinks about her success later in her life.