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For 34 years, the William Grant Still Arts Center in Los Angeles has showcased diverse dolls for children. This year's theme, Jazz Superheroes, incorporates Marvel characters and musical giants.

The queen will reportedly host Prince Harry, Prince Charles and Prince William at her country estate on Monday to discuss the couple's plans to "step back as 'senior' members of the Royal Family."

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor about the impacts and strategies involving Russia's latest offensive on northeastern Ukraine.

The four had traveled together from the Carolinas so one of them could get a tummy tuck surgery in Matamoros, where Friday’s kidnapping took place, officials said. One of the survivors was identified as a North Carolina man.

We mark the life of Lewis, who died Oct. 28, by listening to archival interviews with his sister, pianist/singer Linda Gail Lewis, and with Myra Lewis Williams, who married Jerry Lee when she was 13.

Laura Sydell fell in love with the intimate storytelling qualities of radio, which combined her passion for theatre and writing with her addiction to news. Over her career she has covered politics, arts, media, religion, and entrepreneurship. Currently Sydell is the Digital Culture Correspondent for NPR's All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, and NPR.org.

U.S. Capitol Police Officer William "Billy" Evans was mourned by President Biden and congressional leaders Tuesday in the Capitol Rotunda.

Bill Hawkins was Cleveland’s first black disc jockey. He was known for a jiving, rhyming style that had influence throught the industry and earned him many imitators. He also had a son he never knew. Lost and Found Sound sends that son -- William Allen Taylor -- back to Cleveland to find out more about his father.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has arrested a third person in connection with the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. Authorities arrested William "Roddie" Bryan Jr., the man who filmed the altercation.

In Our Daily Breather, we ask artists to recommend ways to find calm in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. Ella O'Connor Williams, aka Squirrel Flower, is imagining a more just future.

Several hundred people gathered in uptown's Marshall Park Saturday night for a peaceful vigil following last weekend's unrest in Charlottesville,…

Rayquan Borum, the man accused of fatally shooting Justin Carr during protests after the fatal police shooting of Keith Scott last year, has a new…

The 16-year-old secretly videotaped her 2004 beating. When she posted it on YouTube last year, there was outrage. Her father, Aransas County Judge William Adams was suspended. But too much time has passed to bring criminal charges.

A new study finds that African Americans generally tip their waiters less than white diners, often because blacks are less familiar with the custom of tipping 15 to 20 percent. And restaurant workers of all races dislike waiting on black people because they assume the tips will be less, NPR's Juan Williams reports. Read the study, and suggestions for closing the disparity.

In 2016, a video of Pharrell Williams being floored by one of Rogers' demos went viral. She tells Lulu Garcia-Navarro how she arrived at a sound that marries acoustic folk to electronic production.

It's an intriguing finding that suggests life as we know it may have been seeded by asteroids and meteors.

Admiral William Crowe, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has died. He was 82. No cause of death was released. He served as the nation's top-ranking military officer under President Reagan during the waning days of the Cold War.

The Harlem Hellfighters, who became legends for their service during World War I, were honored this week with a Congressional Gold Medal.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with the Rev. William Lamar IV of Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, D.C., about the church's legacy of affirming Black lives following a weekend of vandalism.

More than one third of inmates at California's overcrowded San Quentin prison have tested positive for COVID-19, in what some are calling the state's biggest prison health catastrophe in history.