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With "To Be Young, Gifted and Black," Simone aimed to capture joy in black identity amid bloody civil rights struggle. The song was addressed to children, but adults caught on, too.

The Senate's Republican and Democratic leaders disagree about including witnesses in an impeachment trial of President Trump. But each has flipped his stance since Bill Clinton's 1999 acquittal.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with House Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel about State Department officials being blocked from testifying in the House impeachment inquiry.

Two head-turning collaborations dominate this week's playlist, but we also have a bit of Latin jazz and something new from Cuban hip-hop pioneer X Alfonso.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains, made in the early 1980s, inspired many of the early members of the underground feminist punk movement.

Progressive activists see 2020 as a chance to take control of the Democratic Party. They don't agree on who the best leader would be, but fear the former vice president would fail to excite voters.

Jimmie Fails plays a man who continues to visit the old Victorian house he grew up in — even though his family no longer owns it — in this comic fable about the toll of gentrification.

Lawmakers are expected to vote Tuesday after months of political and legal disputes with the executive branch. Here's how we got here, what it means and what's coming next.

He committed himself to improving conditions for African Americans saying "I saw myself as a kind of lead pipe in the hands of people who did not otherwise have a weapon to counter such things."

Personal injury law firms are using location-based mobile ads to target people as they enter emergency rooms. The trend is raising concerns among patients and health privacy experts.