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Uncovering the layers of weirdness in the many fights over the ways music was employed as theater during this week's Republican national convention.

We asked writers in the LGBTQ+ community to reflect on the relationship between Pride, music and LGBTQ+ activism. Gerrick D. Kennedy shares songs that help him stand in his power as a Black queer man.

With the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, Minnesota will be one of the states where abortion remains legally protected. But legal doesn't necessarily mean accessible, advocates warn.

Trump's Cabinet is less academic, less government-centric, and less diverse than those of his predecessors.

Heidi Waleson has been the opera critic for The Wall Street Journal for 25 years. Her new book, Mad Scenes and Exit Arias, gives an overview of the New…

Michael Stipe and Mike Mills share some of the stories behind the band's landmark album and how it became an unlikely hit.

In the first half of the 20th century, American eugenicists used forced sterilization to "breed out" traits they considered undesirable. Adam Cohen tells the story in his new book, Imbeciles.

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.

The group's 1993 debut was the opening shot of an audacious plan to open the music industry to hip-hop made way outside the mainstream.

Born as a children's song, transformed by the civil rights movement into an anthem, "This Little Light of Mine" works by letting the singer control their own story.