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Jean Battey Lewis reports on the career of modern dance pioneer Paul Taylor. Two of his works are to be performed tonight at the Kennedy Center in Washington.

The boxing icon, who currently serves as a senator in the Philippines, says his experience of personal hardships equip him to understand people's suffering — and fight poverty and corruption.

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Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan reviews Spike Lee's newest movie, Bamboozled. It stars Damon Wayans as a Harvard educated network television writer who's the only black writer on staff. Pushed to create a hip TV program about urban blacks or be fired, the writer comes up with Mantan, the New Millennium Minstrel Show, a demeaning program that exploits every racial stereotype imaginable. Turan says it's the harshest of Lee's films.

In their new book, Washington Post journalists Costa and Bob Woodward give the first inside look at the transition of power from former President Donald Trump to President Biden.

NPR's John Nielson reports on a groundbreaking piece of legislation the Senate just passed which could set aside more open space than ever for conservation efforts.

Watch the 19-time Grammy winner return to his lifelong passion for J.S. Bach, playing music from the Cello Suites and offering advice on the art of incremental learning.

Construction workers and others opposed to new COVID-19 vaccine rules have taken to the streets. Some allege that right-wing extremists have infiltrated the increasingly violent protests.

A TikTok challenge that encourages students to steal school property is sweeping across Oklahoma.

Oklahoma’s NPR member stations are producing a series of stories focused on infrastructure in the state. Today, extreme weather is becoming more likely in Oklahoma. February’s deep freeze is just the latest example not only of unusual weather, but of the disruption to our electric grid that can result.

Media coverage around the death of 22-year-old Gabrielle Petito looks racist to those who note that murders and disappearances of Native Americans are mostly ignored.

Lofty rhetoric about multilateralism is meeting the hard reality for President Biden at the UN General Assembly as he tries to smooth over a dispute with America's oldest ally, France.