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Remember that scene where Dorothy and Toto realize they're not in Kansas anymore? That same combined sensation of awe, homesickness and hallucination probably described the people in the crowd at the Museum of Modern Art in 1976, as they stood before William Eggleston's color photography exhibit for the first time.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with former Mississippi Gov. William Winter. During his years in office, from 1980 to 1984, Gov. Winter overhauled an impoverished state's educational system and addressed desegregation.

Political music is most commonly thought of in terms of lyricism: artists saying something. But some of the most powerful music comes from a sound of political fervor and change that transcends words. Hear five of hip-hop poet Saul Williams' favorite songs — tracks in which the music itself calls for change.

The win for Venus and Serena Williams in women's doubles could be the least surprising outcome of the Games, as The Guardian notes. They are that dominate.

Hear the singer-songwriter lead an all-star West Virginian rock band for a Mountain Stage set, composed mostly of tunes from his album Strange Constellations.

Williams's catalog has, across more than a dozen albums, shaped Americana. Here's a map of her career's many high points.

Charlotte's J.T. Williams neighborhood was located off Statesville Road in Charlotte. It was purchased by investors in 2022 and rebranded as Julia Apartments.

At 27, Serena Williams has won every major title in tennis — but she made headlines this year for her bad behavior at the U.S. Open. In her new book, On The Line, Williams describes her life in the sport. In an interview, she discusses that infamous match — and playing against her sister.

On Flowers for Vases / descansos, recorded at home during quarantine, Hayley Williams blurs the lines between mythology and reality to offer a new language to cope with grief.

The singer/poet/actor/activist's newest opus is another slice of genre-agnostic, cultural agitprop inspired by a fictional miner-turned-hacker in the African nation of Burundi.

President-elect Donald Trump has promised mass deportations when he steps into the White House. Many in Charlotte’s immigrant community are bracing for deportations.

Langewiesche is a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, and he is the author of a number of books including Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight. His new book is The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos and Crime. It's about the unregulated world of the open sea where some 40,000 ships travel carrying raw materials and products. Their crews are often poorly trained and poorly paid. The ships are vulnerable to accidents, piracy and terrorists.

That's right...Mr. "Naked Lunch," Beat Generation survivor...is a painter and collagist. He's been doing this quietly for nearly half a century. Using cutup newspapers and magazines, paint and photography, his goal is to create a new, visual language with his art in the same way he tried to create a kind of random storytelling in the pages of his books. Burroughs also works in a medium that brought him a certain notoriety in the 1950's - guns - specifically, shotgun-blasted boards (they're painted too). The first-ever retrospective of Burroughs' visual art is now at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports.

What does it mean when you wear a really unusual hat to the Grammy Awards? Well, a lot, actually.

The world's tennis greats are facing off at Wimbledon. Howard Bryant of ESPN is there and tells NPR's Eric Westervelt what's been happening on the grass courts.

His parents were blind, but he grew up with music everywhere. And after years as a mental health therapist, he's returned to the aesthetic of his mother's favorite folk records. Fitzsimmons discusses the music and heartache of his latest album.

Former Mecklenburg County Manager Harry Jones passed away from pancreatic cancer Wednesday. He helped steer the county for more than a decade and, in…

Mecklenburg Republican Commissioner Bill James, who lost a re-election bid Tuesday, has told colleagues that he won't attend any more meetings before new…

NPR correspondent Juan Williams talks about his conversation with President Bush, the president's first broadcast interview since last Tuesday's State of the Union Address.