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The Apollo's talent competition helped launch the careers of Billie Holiday, Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5, Lauryn Hill, D'Angelo and Machine Gun Kelly.

The film culls thousands of hours of videos from protestors and police body cams as well as archived audio to tell the story of the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Afghanistan's economy is in a dangerous downward spiral — pushing millions closer and closer to starvation.

As Americans view volcanic activity at Mount St. Helens with awe and unease, tourists are flocking to Indonesia and the site of one of history's most spectacular volcanic blasts. Hear NPR's Michael Sullivan.

The Queen is back.

Author Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. thinks future business leaders can learn something from literary classics. His book Questions of Character offers lessons from eight major works.

In just six months, YouTube boomed from a start-up video site to a Web phenomenon. The site serves up pop culture classics along with amateur video clips uploaded by anybody with a digital camcorder -- and time to burn.

Pentagon officials now say Abu Musab al-Zarqawi briefly survived the U.S. air strike that flattened his hideout. Briefing reporters from Baghdad, Maj. Gen. Bill Caldwell said that Iraqi police reached Zarqawi after the attack. When U.S. forces entered the area, they found that Zarqawi was on a makeshift stretcher.

A high school with students who will graduate at age 20 -- after sharing classrooms with confirmed trouble-makers -- in inner city Detroit would seem to be a recipe for academic disaster. But one high school is beating the odds, and even attracings students to apply or transfer.

January should be national couch potato month. Check out our guide to the premieres of 24 and American Idol (with a tip o' the mic to Whitney Houston's melisma), our exclusive preview of Little Mosque on the Prairie and reviews of a stomping dance movie and an idiocratic DVD.

For 18 years, Alan Greenspan chaired the Federal Reserve Board, steering U.S. monetary policy. His pronouncements were read like tea leaves for clues to his thoughts on the economy's health. Now he's put those thoughts on paper in a memoir.

Photographer Mark Edward Harris traveled to North Korea for the mass gymnastic games and gathered vivid snapshots throughout the country. His photographs are collected in a new book, Inside North Korea.