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On Monday transgender people will be allowed to enlist in the military. Aaron Belkin of The Palm Center tells guest host Lauren Frayer about new guidelines issued for how to treat potential enlistees.

Carson's doctoral dissertation, a 34-track rap album, went viral. This fall, he'll teach hip-hop history and composition in the hope of giving his students tools to engage in difficult conversations.

Manning pleaded guilty to 10 smaller charges. He is still expected to be tried for the charge of aiding the enemy. During the hearing, the Army private also provided the first detailed explanation of why he perpetrated the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history.

Today marks 50 years since civil rights activist Medgar Evers was gunned down in his driveway in Jackson, Mississippi by white supremacist Byron De La…

It's been 48 years since Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first black Supreme Court justice. Author Wil Haygood talks about the fight for that confirmation and how it shaped American history.

Asians are the fastest growing group of immigrants, outpacing Hispanics. NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro talks to professor and author Erika Lee about America's shifting demographics.

More than 80 years before Photoshop was introduced, a clever photographer doctored this picture — and tampered with history.

Collectors, scholars and everyday people got the chance to peruse the Durham, N.C., home of the late John Hope Franklin, a world-renowned scholar of African-American history who died in 2009.

The quiet Wyoming town of Riverton -- population 10,000 -- got a shock recently: their town was about to become the headquarters of the World Church of the Creator, a group associated with white supremacy and racial violence. NPR's Howard Berkes reports on how the town is responding to the move, and how it's confronting its own history of intolerance. Listen to an extended interview with church "hastus primus" Tomas Kroenke.

A prominent activist and former lobbyist for Kentucky’s chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is running for the state legislature.