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On June 18, 1983, she made history aboard the space shuttle. America's first woman in space had joined NASA after responding to a newspaper ad. "I knew that's what I wanted to do," she said.

"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before."Leonard Bernstein, November…

As a growing crop of young candidates challenge longtime Democratic incumbents, some are not just breaking through in the money race, but outraising their opponents altogether.

Haiti has been defined in the public imagination by struggle and turmoil. Now in its biggest year and first in Brooklyn, the BAYO festival looks to shift focus back toward the culture.

Ohio Republicans got their wish Wednesday — a special election in August to vote on a plan to raise the threshold for constitutional amendments to 60%. But the hard part will be convincing Ohioans to vote for it.

The new two year state budget under consideration by the Ohio Senate includes 8 billion dollars for transportation projects. Of that $8 billion, just $56 million dollars a year is dedicated to Ohio’s public transit agencies.

Author Joe Ide, a Japanese American, always felt like an outsider growing up in a primarily African-American neighborhood. But he found solace in Sherlock Holmes stories.

Playwright Tarell McCraney and filmmaker Barry Jenkins drew on their own childhood experiences in making Moonlight, a film about a boy growing up in a Miami housing project.

Iraq war veteran Angela Perkins compares her "Survivor: Ghost Island" competition to her Army experience this way: "They are two different experiences....

After nine albums, the veteran indie rock band Spoon is doing something that's become a rarity in the age of playlists: releasing a hand-picked collection of a dozen of its best-loved songs.