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In Orlando, Vice President Harris rejected Gov. Ron DeSantis' invitation for a discussion about the state's new curriculum on slavery, calling it an "unnecessary" debate.

Wegner would be the first woman to win the Academy Award for cinematography. She says a highlight of the project was filming the lead actor as he improvised a key emotional moment in the story.

Ken Tucker reviews Robert McCormick's Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey, and Robert Mugge's Notes from the Road: A Filmmaker's Journey Through American Music.

Black smokers make up menthol tobacco's largest market, and have the highest rates of lung cancer. But the fight over banning menthol is a complex and divisive issue in the Black community.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Maud Newton about her book Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation, a memoir that explores her family history of racist violence.

Austin Carter speaks to Alissa Keller, executive director of the Museums of Historic Hopkinsville-Christian County, about her history series with the Hoptown Chronicle.

NPR's Miles Parks talks to Reuters editor Tom Lasseter about a project highlighting how many people in power in the U.S. today have ancestors who enslaved people.

In a New Year's Day post on Truth Social, President-elect Trump touted the benefits of tariffs, pointing to the Gilded Age. But economists found tariffs did not make American manufacturing great.

"We've been programmed to say great stuff comes from Europe and not from Africa," Samuelsson says. The chef's new book, The Rise, is a celebration of Black excellence in the culinary world.

To mark 25 years of Vladimir Putin's leadership of Russia, NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Russia expert Keir Giles of Chatham House about three key moments in which Putin has exerted power.