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Clevelander Robert Madison got his marching orders when he was six — his mother told him he should become an architect. Three decades later, he became the first African American architect in Ohio. But, that achievement came after a hard-fought struggle against cultural forces working to keep people of color out of the profession. Madison’s new memoir, “Designing Victory,” co-written with Carlo Wolff, traces the struggle from segregated water fountains in the Jim Crow South up through building a U.S embassy in Senega

Start your summer with the first installment in a weekly Spotify playlist of Latin music, featuring new songs from reggaeton reinaIvy Queen, Cuban hip-hop gods Orishas and more.

The odds of successfully telling the origin story of the Star Wars trilogy's lovable rogue are approximately 3,720 to 1. After a sluggish start, Solo: A Star Wars Story beats those odds.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Joan Graves, ratings chair of the Motion Picture Association of America, as she prepares to retire after nearly two decades of thinking of movies in terms of ratings.

Big mainstream consumer brands, which have owned our cupboards and closets, face a turning point: a time to evolve or wither. The Internet and the echoes of the recession have changed us as shoppers.

This year, 12 women veterans are nominees for the House. Many are highlighting not only their military service, but their experiences as mothers.

The giant, U-shaped tube is designed to form a garbage-corralling barrier propelled by wind and waves. Its creator hopes to remove half the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in five years.

The Music Modernization Act, which brings laws governing music up-to-date and streamlines life for everyone involved, is just about the only thing you could expect a divided Congress to agree on.

The deputy attorney general is in a tight spot over the early phase of his tenure after a bombshell report by The New York Times. And the president has postponed the next shot in the document war.

On this month's Heavy Rotation, hear music from Raphael Saadiq, Nick Lowe, Veronica Swift and more.