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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to film and television critic Rebecca Theodore-Vachon about the controversy over Green Book's Oscar win for best picture.

The 1991 film earned him two Oscar nods and a spot in history as the youngest person and first African American ever nominated for best director. Singleton died in Los Angeles after a stroke.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Tyler Okeke, a youth organizer who advocates voting at 16, about how lowering the voting age could improve Generation Z's turnout at the polls.

Murray State's Cinema International program continues its Fall 2020 series on gender representation with two featured films, Girls of the Sun and The…

In a new moment of sustained racial justice protests, the participants of 1963's March on Washington reflect on what they achieved and the work that remains to be done.

Giddens explains how the new song she composed for Morning Edition's Song Project series grew from this year's extreme ups and downs.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, a professor of art history at Harvard University, about how the lack of images makes it harder to comprehend the vast lethality of the pandemic.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Myrna Pérez, director of the Brennan Center's Voting Rights and Elections Program, about the history of the Voting Rights Act — the legacy of the late Rep. John Lewis.

Hawking was a theoretical physicist who changed how scientists think about gravity. He also wrote the best-selling book A Brief History of Time and lent his machine-aided voice to TV shows. He was 76.

NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with Rutgers University professor Toby Jones, who has written about the politics behind the execution of a Shiite leader in Saudi Arabia.