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Georgetown University owes its survival to slavery. A new album by Carlos Simon, an assistant professor at the school, unflinchingly confronts that legacy.

In the first test of its kind since the Dobbs ruling, Kansas voters have decided not to amend the state constitution, keeping abortion legal in the state — for now.

Warner Bros. Discovery has shelved production of its film Batgirl. It's a good time to recall her path to this point.

La Borinqueña and the A La Brava are new superheroes whose creators hope will influence change.

This month marks one year since Megan Piphus Peace joined the cast. She praises how the show discusses topics like race for children — and she herself is being inspired for a new chapter.

Closing arguments in the lawsuit challenging New York City's stop-and-frisk policy begin Monday in federal court. The plaintiffs in the class action trial claim police officers were pressured to stop, question and frisk hundreds of thousands of people each year — even establishing quotas.

Young's latest album with Crazy Horse, Americana, features songs many of us learned as children, like "Oh Susannah" and "Clementine."

Abortion rights advocates in Michigan are hoping a wave of newly-motivated activists will turn out this year to override an abortion ban and put broad reproductive rights in the state constitution.

Who wrote music for kids' cartoons in the Soviet Union? Would you have guessed — Dmitri Shostakovich? A Brooklyn Philharmonic concert prompts a new look at this classic animation.

The Ohio Democratic Party is the latest group to blast Attorney General Dave Yost, a Republican, over the comments he made about a story involving a 10-year-old pregnant girl who had been raped and went to Indiana to get an abortion.