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Two lawsuits recently filed in Ohio are taking on the 2023 voter-approved constitutional amendment that guaranteed reproductive rights and abortion access.

Following star-making roles in Broadway's Kinky Boots and FX's Pose, Billy Porter has released an original album that plays out like mini-autobiographies: Black Mona Lisa.

A rocket belonging to Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin exploded during a test at the launch pad Thursday night, ahead of a satellite launch planned for next week.

Music historian James Karst explains his recent research into the early life of the legendary Louis Armstrong.

Three staffers from NPR Music tell Audie Cornish about a futurist Congolese band, a couple of house-music Kiwis in London and the unreleased recordings of a pianist who dated Doris Duke.

On their debut album, the improvisational supergroup — singer Arooj Aftab, pianist Vijay Iyer and bassist Shahzad Ismaily — try to answer a musical riddle: What does listening sound like?

"Rough. Funny. Expansive." That's how critic Greil Marcus described The Clash's album on our program in 1980. We brought him back to ask if he stands by his original review.

More than a decade after winning marriage equality at the Supreme Court, Jim Obergefell says the country is moving in the wrong direction on LGBTQ rights.

The Beatles' final song could never live up to the body of work that precedes it. But it could never diminish it, either.

Author Rabih Alameddine won for his novel The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother). Other winners include a book for young people about orphans on the run in Iran during World War II.