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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with sports journalist Bruce Schoenfeld about the history of black athletes using their platforms for political protests.

Where there are humans, there are rats. But new research says we still have a lot to learn about our furry, often reviled, companions.

The U.S. immigration policy that allows U.S. citizens and green card holders to sponsor other relatives to come to the U.S. was first introduced 50 years ago by an immigration hard liner in Congress. President Trump now wants to end "chain migration."

Levar Stoney recently began serving as mayor of Richmond, Va., at age 35. He talks with Lulu Garcia-Navarro about his challenges and plans for the city in the next year.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Tracey Baptiste about her new novel. Drawing on myths of her native Trinidad and Tobago, Baptiste tackles the history of the slave trade for young readers.

A presidential effort to revoke Harvard University's tax-exempt status could run up against a number of challenges, including violating federal law.

Award-winning author and Graves County native, Bobbi Ann Mason, will be speaking at the Murray State History Department's inaugural lecture and…

Barack Obama was always going to have a place in history as the first African-American president. That's no small feat given the nation's peculiar past. But achieving what other Democratic presidents couldn't fueled deep divisions within the country and set the table for a second term with daunting challenges.

The debate between vice presidential candidates JD Vance and Tim Walz is Tuesday. Through history, there have been times that vice presidential debates made a tangible difference in campaigns.

"Where are the Black photographers?" Deborah Willis on how she turned that question into an artistic mission.