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For five years running, 100 percent of the graduating seniors at Urban Prep Academies have won admission to four-year colleges. The schools work to promote positive examples of black masculinity.

Music journalist Ashley Kahn talks about the life and musical legacy of jazz singer Billie Holiday, who would have turned 90 this year. To mark the occasion, Universal Music has released Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection, a boxed set of Holiday's music for which Kahn wrote the liner notes.

British paleontologist David Hone set out to write a book that stresses what isn't yet known about dinosaurs — as much as what is known.

Scott Simon talks with Lily Tuck about her new novel, "The Rest is Memory." Based on a real photograph, she imagines the life of a Polish girl killed at Auschwitz concentration camp.

New music from the city looks to the past for ways forward — but the patina of artistic fertility around "New Detroit" isn't all-inclusive.

Harvard professors wanted to flood social media with evidence-based information about conditions like anxiety and depression. So they turned to the people who already know how to go viral.

It was supposed to be a straightforward training exercise. Instead, Sgt. John Skipper cut the parachute strings to three Humvees and they were demolished as they hit the ground.

JONESBORO – Arkansas Delta Byways will present the annual Delta Awards ceremony, recognizing tourism achievement in Eastern Arkansas, during festivities...

A district attorney says the two inmates may have used power tools left behind by maintenance contractors at the Clinton Correctional Facility.

Who is the American flag for? And what does it mean when people of color choose to wave it — or not wave it? Gene and Adrian dig in.