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NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Maya Cade, who saw how hard it is to access movies by Black directors — so she created the Black Film Archive, a collection of nearly 250 films spanning seven decades.

They're often paid low wages and lack job protections. A petition to the country's supreme court to support their demands did not see success — and they are protesting.

Some experts worry that less homework could be a problem for math achievement, at a time when test scores nationwide are already at a dismal low.

NPR's Short Wave team talks about the surprising benefits of small talk, more humane ways to kill lobsters, and an ancient flood that may have helped create the Grand Canyon.

Gasoline prices have jumped about a dollar a gallon since the war with Iran began. And diesel prices are up even more. That's tough on truckers, fishermen, and just about everyone else.

Uggams performed in Beulah, Hallelujah Baby, Roots, Empire, American Fiction and the Deadpool films. She was the first Black woman to host a TV variety show. At 82, she's appearing in The Gilded Age.

As President Trump delivered his State of the Union address, reporters from across NPR's newsroom, are fact checking his speech and offer context.

NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with actor Austin Butler about the new movie "The Bikeriders," which follows a motorcycle club outside Chicago in the 1960s.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with author Leslie Jamison about her new book, The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath.

A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped to improve billions of lives — and keep us from getting lost.