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Charenée Wade performs the Mary Lou Williams composition "What's Your Story Morning Glory?" during the 2019 NPR Music Turning the Tables opening concert at Lincoln Center.

North Carolina NAACP President William Barber is standing by his characterization of the U.S. Senate’s only African-American Republican as a…

NPR discusses Attorney General William Barr's tenure and his actions as President Trump refuses to concede the election.

The singer was 84. The cause of death, his family says, was bladder cancer.

Diana's two sons blamed the BBC for its role in their mother's death. They say Diana's life was irrevocably damaged by an interview she gave in 1995.

Surya, a Georgia home furnishings company is buying Taylorsville-based Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams. The furniture maker closed its locations in August and filed for bankruptcy.

The legendary pastor of Glide Church died this week at the age of 94. He was known as a champion of racial equality, LGBTQ rights and San Francisco's most impoverished residents.

The novelist died from cancer on Thursday. Blatty was best known for writing the best-selling 1971 horror fiction about a 12-year-old girl, possessed by the devil, before the 1973 film became a hit.

Surrounding the Americana Honors & Awards Show, AMERICANAFEST 2022 will be broadcasting their live performances, beginning Wednesday, Sept 14.

Melissa Block speaks with Sports Illustrated senior writer Jon Wertheim about rising tennis star Sloane Stephens, the 19-year-old who beat superstar Serena Williams at the Australian Open.

to three Gulf Arab states to secure support for continued military and economic pressures against Iraq.

Before settling in Harlem, Mary Lou Williams traveled the country playing with big bands. The road shaped her sound, and her theory of black music as "the greatest and only true art in the world."

Williams was exonerated after 36 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Now he's fulfilling a lifelong dream on the stage of New York's Apollo Theater.

Judy Williams, who turned the pain of losing her goddaughter into a Charlotte nonprofit aimed at preventing violence and helping families of homicide victims through grief, died Saturday after battling lung cancer.

As the U.S. Open began Monday in New York, tennis fans tuned into what could be Serena Williams' final matches. The tennis icon hinted she might retire after this year's tournament.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with CIA Director William Burns at the Aspen Security Forum about Russian attacks on Ukrainian port cities and about Ukraine using U.S.-supplied cluster bombs.

Porsha Williams is an activist, author, entrepreneur and the realest of the Real Housewives. But, what does she know about the fake housewives of classic TV sitcoms?

Abortion opponents are both excited and sobered at possibly overturning Roe v. Wade. They say they welcome a new national conversation and want to wage the next battles in blue states as well as red.

Abortion rights opponents are both excited and sobered at the prospect that the Supreme Court could overturn Roe v. Wade, saying they are ready to wage the next battles in both blue and red states.

This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with special guest Michelle Williams and panelists Alonzo Bodden, Paula Poundstone, and Helen Hong