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With new music from Wale, Swsh, Mahalia and more, these songs of catharsis are just what you need to disconnect.

As the grandson of a slave and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall dedicated his life to the Civil Rights…

"I Am Not Your Negro" is a new documentary that turns the final 30 pages of James Baldwin's final unfinished manuscript into a film narrated by Samuel L.…

Simone Popperl is an editor for NPR's Morning Edition and Up First. She joined the network in March 2019, and since then has pitched and edited stories on everything from the legacy of burn pits in Iraq, to never-ending "infrastructure week," to California towns grappling with climate change, to American alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin's ascendance to the top of her sport. She led Noel King's reporting on the early days of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, Steve Inskeep's reporting from swing states in the lead up to the 2020 Presidential Election, and Leila Fadel's field reporting from Kentucky on the end of Roe v. Wade.

Following up on our post about pairing classical music and pets, here are a few of our favorite classically talented pets for your amusement. We've…

Watch 25 of the year's greatest, most surprising Tiny Desk performances, featuring just a sampling of the gifted artists who passed through NPR Music's office this year.

Beach House and Mitski and Spoon, oh my! Here are the tracks public radio is spinning over and over this year.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the animated film Up, directed by Pete Docter, produced by Pixar and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion…

The coming months will bring a 28 Days Later sequel and a new John Wick movie starring Ana de Armas. Midsommar's Ari Aster has a new Western thriller, and Pixar goes intergalactic.

The first thing that comes to mind when Benny Goodmans name is mentioned is his amazing Swing legacy. But no conversation about the "King of Swing" is…