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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Fulton County Commissioner Khadijah Abdur-Rahman, who supports a boycott of businesses in Georgia over new voting restrictions.

Franklin's gospel recordings presented black life itself as a sacred practice. On albums like Amazing Grace, she is less individual genius than willing instrument of the world that created her.

NPR's Felix Contreras brings us the latest music from Alt Latino.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Kevin Cook, the author of The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA's Challenger Disaster. The space shuttle exploded after launch 35 years ago.

This group of gray whales seems to have figured out a new feeding strategy. To fatten up as they migrate from Baja to the Arctic, they take a detour to Puget Sound.

The GOP-majority state legislature has adopted Republican-drawn district maps along party lines.

The vote now leaves it up to the Justice Department to decide whether it will pursue criminal charges against the former White House chief of staff.

Various music styles, from singer-songwriters to dance music to hip-hop, emerged over the many years of Fidel Castro's rule in Cuba.

This week's entries include comforting songs for trying times, narrative guitar shredding and more. And if you're an unsigned artist who planned to perform at SXSW, the Contest wants to hear from you!

COVID cases and deaths are rising again in nursing homes across the country due to the highly contagious omicron variant. Staffing shortages are adding to strain and workers report "moral distress."

A poor reader, Matthew Reeves is intellectually disabled and wasn't capable of making a decision on the method of execution without assistance, his lawyers argued.

The House committee investigating the Capitol attack had threatened Meadows with a criminal contempt referral because he had previously refused to cooperate.

The 35-year-old from Trinidad and Tobago plays Amanda Sinclair on the CBS show "The Young and the Restless."

Ed Gordon talks smooth jazz with one of the biggest names in the genre, saxophonist Kim Waters. His new CD is All for Love.

More than a 100 million people in the U.S. are burdened by medical debt. An investigation by NPR and Kaiser Health shows the painful sacrifices many are making to pay their medical and dental bills.

The address followed recent mass shootings in New York, Texas and Oklahoma. Biden said the measures aren't about taking away rights, but about protecting Americans.

After Charlie Parker returned to New York in 1947, he would finally find fame. Ever the innovator, he sought to expand upon his bebop breakthrough for the rest of his musical career.

By the early 1930s, Louis Armstrong had already revolutionized jazz. Through the next four decades, he would continue to reinvent himself. Along the way, he produced landmarks of the 20th century in American music and entertainment.

The singer, formerly known as Cat Stevens, tackles weighty existential questions by looking backward, using the blues to unlock buried memories.

Fans and detractors of jazz fusion cite Miles Davis as the one who led the way to a new direction in jazz in the late 1960s and early '70s. The sessions for In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew not only bred a new style, but also helped identify the pioneers who would help define rock-influenced jazz. Hear five classic examples.