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Ken Burns shares his thoughts on the state of our country since the Civil War.

Updated 6:17 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019

A Q&A with Raina Kelley (moderator), Malcolm Jenkins, Claressa Shields, and Ken Burns.

A Tribe Called Quest frontman is the first artistic director for hip-hop culture at the Kennedy Center. He discusses the cultural levity of his appointment and the current political climate.

Here are your morning headlines for Thursday, September 7: The return of the Q deal Summit County Executive sends condolences to family of Akron man who...

The city bus is one of the few ways in or out of New York's Rikers Island jail. Conditions there have been declared a crisis. Families say the only way to check on their loved ones is in person.

Sen. Rob Portman stunned the Ohio political world Monday with his announcement that he won’t run for reelection. That leaves an open seat in 2022 as Democrats and Republicans vie for control of a closely divided Senate. It may not be long before candidates start running, according to David Cohen, the interim director of the Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron.

Senators will ask a series of questions in President Trump's impeachment trial — questions that so far have illuminated how sharply divided opinions are on how the president handled aid to Ukraine.

"I have been visibly gay my entire life," Nikos Giannopoulos told NPR.

Jo Baker's Longbourn retells the events of Pride and Prejudice from the point of view of the servants. Baker tells NPR Books editor Petra Mayer that the predicament of the Bennet sisters is well-known, so she wanted to explore the situation of the servant girls with no father, home or dowry.