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Though it’s far removed from the major battlegrounds for women’s suffrage, a Black west Kentucky native left their mark in the fight for women’s voting rights in rural Iowa.

In 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump claimed he could shoot someone and not lose any voters. Now, he faces criminal charges in three separate indictments, and voters continue to support "Teflon Don."

By celebrating those who applied the substance as a drug, Walter A. Brown aims to raise awareness — and to demolish what remains of the myth that scientific progress is driven by rigorous dispassion.

The novelist and poet Sinan Antoon, raised in Iraq and now living in New York, returned home following the 2003 U.S. occupation. That experience inspired his new work of fiction.

While the prolific Hollywood writer's career is well-documented, his personal history has been a mystery. His memoir is painful and inspiring, infuriating and full of hope, humorous and depressing.

In her new book, Sarah Lohman says that even though America is culturally and ethnically diverse, its food is united by a handful of tastes that have permeated the nation's cuisine for centuries.

Ken Stein, who worked with the president at the Carter Center, says Carter's book Palestine Peace Not Apartheid allows "opinion to get in the way of facts" and is less critical of Palestinians than Israel.

Did President Obama overstep his bounds when he stepped into the debate over Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s altercation with police at Gates' Cambridge, Mass., home? NPR news analyst Juan Williams tells host Scott Simon that Obama's handling of the controversy has hurt the president in the eyes of the nation.

One word has become unavoidable on the campaign trail — woke. But what does it really mean and where does it come from? The word has a long and serious history in Black culture.

Jiang Rong's life has spanned the history of the People's Republic of China. The 63-year-old writer of the acclaimed novel Wolf Totem is a democracy activist who has spent time in prison, as well as an old-school intellectual in the tradition of the classical scholar. He sees his role as speaking out against wrongdoing and injustice, whatever the cost.