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The Kendrick Lamar song turned protest chant against police violence identifies a daily balancing act: There is hope, and there is despair. There's the ideal world, and there's the real one.

NPR Music's Ann Powers and Rodney Carmichael discuss albums they're looking forward to, as well as the artists they're begging to come back.

Some 20,000 people got tickets to say farewell to NBA great Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. People without tickets were being urged to watch at home.

Musicians, fans, venue owners and employees are wondering what will become of the live music industry following the coronavirus pandemic. Bob Boilen pays tribute to the club that changed his life.

President Trump uses big rallies to reach voters. Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden prefers meeting people face-to-face. But the pandemic has moved both of their campaigns online.

Already a veteran by the time she was out of her teens, the early career of Betty Wright, who died Sunday, produced many R&B hits, including a pair of songs that would become career signatures.

Nearly 60 years ago, mental-health treatment began its move from massive warehouses like the old Massillon State Hospital to community-based care. But...

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Republicans David Podurgiel, Becky Ravenkamp and Michael Sabat about the president's immigration policies and who they think should be allowed into the country.

One of the great post-World War II conductors, Abbado had a searching musical intellect that he employed in orchestral and operatic music from Mozart to Verdi to contemporary composers.

Rather than extol Lynn in ways she rejected, we should appreciate the agency with which she so impressively crafted her identity in country music.