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William Harvey, president of Hampton University, says the season premiere of BET's new show The Quad was a "bogus representation" of historically black colleges and universities.

Commander William Marks, a spokesperson for the U.S. 7th Fleet, describes the ongoing search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. The U.S. Navy is lending a hand in the efforts to find it.

In secretly-recorded comments released Monday, GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney referred to some 47 percent of Americans who pay no income tax, are dependent on the federal government for assistance, and will vote for President Obama no matter what. Something near 47 percent falls in each category, but they are three distinct groups.

Today, digital maps are a big business, and Google has become nearly everyone's go-to cartographer. But there are challengers out there — and you might be surprised by some of the competition.

In a career spanning seven decades, Wallach appeared in over 200 films, plays and TV shows. His roles ranged from Mr. Freeze on TV's Batman to Kilroy in Tennessee William's Camino Real on Broadway.

In fiction, Karen Thompson Walker's sci-fi debut and Vladimir Nabokov's unfinished final novel arrive in paperback. In softcover nonfiction, Toby Wilkinson reviews Egypt's political past; Alec Wilkinson surveys 19th-century polar exploration; and William Broad probes the science of yoga.

In the late 1960s, Elizabeth Coffey-Williams' family kicked her out after she told them that she was transgender — before many knew what that meant. A little brother's embrace welcomed her back.

Marchers are walking 120 miles from Ferguson to the governor's mansion in Jefferson City to ask for improvements to policing policies. Melissa Block talks to NAACP President Cornell William Brooks.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Connecticut Attorney General William Tong about his opposition to a settlement with Purdue Pharma, which would help the company restructure into a non-profit entity.

Last week Congress delayed an upgrade of codes that govern the U.S. health system. Some say this will waste millions of dollars and make cost-saving and life-saving research more difficult.

Michelle Williams tackles screen icon Marilyn Monroe in a movie about moviemaking — she's filming a comedy with Laurence Olivier, and it's not going well.

In honor of Jazz Appreciation Month, here's a playlist showcasing some of the Jazz Night team's favorite Tiny Desk concerts.

Slate contributor Timothy Noah shares an essay about his experiences representing his deceased wife, journalist Marjorie Williams, on a book tour. Williams wrote for Vanity Fair and The Washington Post for many years. Her last book, The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, And Fate, is an essay collection of her observations about life in Washington, D.C.

"It was written for the masses," says the director of a New York organization raising money to bring Shakespeare's work to new audiences.

On his new album, the violinist completely rethinks The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams, and leans into old folk songs with the help of Sam Amidon.

The story of William Rehnquist's marriage proposal to Sandra Day O'Connor, his Stanford Law School classmate, in the early 1950s has been unknown even to friends, colleagues and family — until now.

Airline veteran and writer William McGee says airlines' aggressive cost-cutting hasn't just added fees and hassles. He says they're taking steps that compromise safety — and regulators are letting it happen.

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist William Kennedy says his best writing features his New York hometown. His latest book, Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes, is no exception. "There's a richness of Albany that I couldn't possibly exhaust," says Kennedy, who is now 83.

This week in fiction, an unlikely English love story reveals class and racial tensions in an English village, while in nonfiction, two postwar pop-culture icons share their life stories, and two respected journalists tackle the financial crisis and the rise of Dubai.

Residents of tiny Conklin, New York, are surprised the teen accused of a mass shooting in Buffalo came from their community. People of color in the nearby city of Binghamton have a different view.