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Frank discussions on race continue in our country with the focus often on the black American male. Black men have sometimes been demonized, marginalized…

President Trump wants to do away with the filibuster in order to pass the Save America Act. But many Senate Republicans are reluctant, wary of what it would mean if they were to lose their majority.

Through WFAE's partnership with Novant Health Foundation, "Advancing Maternal Health Equity" will explore all aspects of birth equity and talk about what needs to be done to improve infant and maternal health.

Brakkton Booker is a National Desk reporter based in Washington, DC.

The Boston band Kingsley Flood has spent the last few years polishing, refining and expanding its folk-rock sound, in the process incorporating horns, more strings and ever-brighter production.

Fulks continues to explore the subversive side of bluegrass and country on his latest album, Upland Stories. Hear him perform live in Lexington, Ky.

Watch the Cleveland duo's latest over-the-top video, which draws inspiration from the surrealist work of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and Alien artist H.R. Giger.

The best things our team in Austin saw, heard and recorded on the first day of SXSW Music, including a late-night lullaby by one of our favorite musicians.

Weeks of rain have brought on mudslides throughout Central America. Guatemala is the hardest hit country with more than 600 people dead and hundreds more missing.

Marisa Peñaloza is a senior producer on the National Desk.

Severe storms and tornadoes tore through several states overnight Friday. In London, Ky., the mayor says more than 20 people died.

The prolific author, poet, cultural critic, feminist and professor, who wrote more than three dozen wide-ranging books, died Wednesday at her home in Berea, Ky.

While the rancor facing our democracy did not begin with Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death — or even with the Trump presidency — having these events coincide has deepened the shadows on the road ahead.

Up until 1984, the Motion Picture Association of America rated films G, PG, R or X. But that same year some gory scenes in PG-rated movies — including Indiana Jonesand Gremlins — raised concerns.

The R&B goliath caps off our Black Music Month celebration, highlighting a catalog chock-full of hits spanning 25 years.

The Davidson College Union Board is virtually hosting Patrisse Cullors in conversation with Dr. Laurian Bowles, professor of Anthropology at Davidson College on November 10th at 7:30pm. Artist, activist, educator, public speaker, and Los Angeles-native Patrisse Cullors is the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network and Founder of the Los Angeles-based grassroots organization Dignity and Power Now. For the last 20 years, Patrisse has been on the frontlines of criminal justice reform and led Reform LA Jails’ “Yes on R” campaign, a ballot initiative that passed by a 71% landslide victory in March 2020. Patrisse co-founded the global Black Lives Matter movement in 2013 after sparking the viral Twitter hashtag. The movement has since expanded into an international organization with dozens of chapters around the world campaigning against anti-black racism. Her work for the organization received recognition and was honored in TIME Magazine’s 2020 100 Women of the Year project. In January 2016, Patrisse Cullors published her memoir, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, which became an instant New York Times Bestseller.​

This weekend's Art of Cool Festival in Durham, N.C., aims to expand the audience for improvised music. So it's booked performers from modern R&B, hip-hop and beyond with deep jazz influences.

The dance-music producer experiments with what he calls R&G (Rhythm & Grime) on this seven-track EP, which features the cutting-edge singer Kelela.

The British singer's new album, Soul 2, is a collection of reimagined R&B classics from the 1960s and '70s. He says, however, that his personal definition of soul has less to do with genre than with a songwriter's intent.

More people are becoming eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, but do you have the persistence and finesse it sometimes takes to get an appointment for the shot? Local reaction to the killings this week in Atlanta. The legislature attempts to limit the governor's emergency powers, and local arrests in the riot at the Capitol.