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Composers like Harry T. Burleigh, Nathaniel Dett and William Dawson, who applied Western classical music training to the traditional spiritual and created a new repertoire for the concert stage.

The Baltimore Sun was bought last month by David D. Smith, a media executive known for his conservative political advocacy. He's already changing the nearly 200-year-old newspaper.

Inspired by his son, Brent, who has Williams syndrome, Dick Sesler founded the Camp Blue Skies Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 2009. Camp Blue Skies provides 5-day, 4-night camps for adults ages 21 and up with developmental disabilities including Down syndrome and mild to moderate Autism. Services and support for persons with intellectual disabilities drop off dramatically when they reach the age of 21. Blue Skies campers can challenge themselves in a safe environment to enhance their interests and abilities while developing social skills, confidence and independence. Parents and caregivers earn a well-deserved respite while their campers attend Camp Blue Skies.

Walter Ray Watson is a senior producer for NPR News.

Barbara Bradley Hagerty is the religion correspondent for NPR, reporting on the intersection of faith and politics, law, science and culture. Her New York Times best-selling book, "Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality," was published by Riverhead/Penguin Group in May 2009. Among others, Barb has received the American Women in Radio and Television Award, the Headliners Award and the Religion Newswriters Association Award for radio reporting.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Emily Watson and Olivia Williams, who play the leads in the HBO prequel series "Dune: Prophecy." The season premiere airs on Max on November 17.

The podcast The Last Ride examines systemic problems in media and policing and illuminates the deep wounds that are left when no one is held accountable.

The director Harold Ramis didn't intend for his movie Groundhog Day to be heralded by religious thinkers as an example of how to live life, but that's exactly what happened after it was released in 1993. Salon reporter Mary Elizabeth Williams tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly that after fighting cancer, she has come to understand the movie's universal message.

A study from the Governors Highway Safety Association finds that not wearing a helmet and alcohol consumption are big factors in the deaths.

N.C. House District 73 is central and northeastern Cabarrus County. There are nearly 60,000 registered voters in District 73. Of that total, 30% are registered Democrats, 33% are registered Republicans and 36% are unaffiliated voters. Incumbent Democrat Diamond Staton-Williams is seeking her second term. In 2020, approximately 44,000 voters cast ballots for the presidential election. At that time, 53% voted for Trump and 45% voted for Biden.

The Washington Post reports on what led to the sudden resignation of NPR's former top news executive, Ellen Weiss, in early January. While Weiss wasn't an…

North Carolina's Court of Appeals says a prisoner convicted of killing a pair of brothers in Charlotte must have the chance to be released one day because…

Jim Williams never met a piece of electronics he didn't like. The Silicon Valley electrical engineer collects and cherishes what few of us notice: the inner workings of modern machines. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports.

When a suicide bomber killed himself in downtown Nashville on Christmas morning, it damaged dozens of buildings in a historic area. As the rebuilding begins, questions remain about how to proceed.

67 Orange Street makes do with take-out and outdoor service while waiting for a decision on inside dining in NYC.

After closing its doors in March and laying off hundreds of workers, the Kennedy Center held its first concert Saturday night (9/26). Renee Fleming and Vanessa Williams performed for an audience of about 40 people. NPR's Elizabeth Blair was there.

Three sailors were killed during last week's shooting at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla. One was Airman Mohammed Sameh Haitham, a track star at his high school in St. Petersburg.

Fred Thompson's withdrawal from the Republican presidential race ends a White House bid that never really took off. The former Tennessee senator's relaxed leadership style failed to ignite meaningful support from voters.

They're partying inside Buckingham Palace Friday evening. Prince William and Kate Middleton, now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, were married Friday.

So many people caught the omicron variant over the winter that almost 60% of everyone in the U.S. — including most children — now have antibodies to the virus in their blood, the CDC said Tuesday.