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NPR's Robert Siegel talks with historian Leah Wright Rigueur, whose book, The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power, explores the history of the relationship between African-Americans and the Republican Party.

When we started planning a trip to swing state Wisconsin, locals told us we had to include a visit to a supper club to experience the culture. My first question was, "What on earth is a supper club?"

Dashawn Hodge is just a normal 14-year-old boy who hates cutting the grass.“My mom told me when I get home, I gotta cut the grass,” he says. “I looked at…

COVID-19 upended how student teachers were assigned, how they taught, and how they were evaluated. And it accelerated a change already underway: the use of technology.

In order to investigate how eating fish affects our health as well as the oceans, author and fisherman Paul Greenberg spent a year eating fish every day.

In the late summer of 1982, one man worked around the clock to program the video game version of Steven Spielberg's E.T. in just five weeks. The result wasn't pretty.

The attack began when a van crossing London Bridge veered into pedestrians. Three men exited the vehicle and began a stabbing rampage in which hundreds fled for their lives.

Naturalist and author Lyanda Lynn Haupt took her research on Mozart to a whole new level when she invited a young starling into her home.

"It's a really radical and ugly, difficult process that, you know, great beauty comes from." The folk singer discusses her new album, By The Way, I Forgive You, with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly.

As our mixed-race population grows, more people are searching for ways to identify. A newly popularized term is giving people who are black and Mexican a way to connect — with themselves, and others.