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The esteemed Hopkins historian chronicles the extraordinary Black women who've led the 200-year struggle for equality and voting rights in America.

Today it's another edition of our monthly series called Living Questions – a series produced in collaboration with the ICJS, the Institute for Islamic,…

British biologist John Bradshaw has spent the last 30 years studying animal behavior, specifically that of the cat. He is the author of "Cat Sense: How…

A recent CBS News story brought attention to problems with funding and facilities in Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPS). Tom talks with education experts and a BCPS leader about the challenge and plans for the future.

Essential Tremors talks to musicians and other creative people about the music that shaped them. In the debut episode, hosts Matt Byars and Lee Gardner…

Daniel talks to Norman Mailer, author of "Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery." Mailer had access to the KGB documents on Lee Harvey Oswald's time in the Soviet Union, and he talked to many of the people there who knew Oswald.

It was forty years ago today that "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini," sung by Brian Hyland, written by Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss, topped the charts.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Jon Lee Anderson, a reporter for the New Yorker. Anderson talks about what he's seen in Baghdad today.

Among the recipients of the nation's highest civilian honor is Opal Lee, who led the effort to get Juneteenth recognized as a national holiday.

Batman creator BOB KANE. In his autobiography, Batman & Me, KANE tells how he came up with the idea for the caped crusader, and what influence he had on the TV series and previous Batman movies. Kane drew Batman from its inception in 1939 to the late 60s. DC Comic still publishes Batman in a monthly and quarterly form. (REBROADCAST FROM 3/23/90)The creator of such Marvel comic book superheroes as Spiderman, The Incredible Hulk, and The Fantastic Four - cartoonist STAN LEE. He joined Marvel comic books at the age of 16, more than 30 years ago. LEE is currently launching Excelsior Comics, an independent comic book division of Marvel Entertainment. He is also co-executive producer of several top rated television series including "X-Men." (REBROADCAST FROM 10/

Michelle Lee, a Safeway cashier, wishes customers would be more patient about shortages. "They can't understand why they keep coming back and we don't have" items such as toilet paper, she says.

Yanghee Lee, the U.N.'s human rights special rapporteur to Myanmar, was told that she will not be allowed to enter the country for the rest of her term. Lee had been scheduled to visit in January.

Several big school districts like New York and Los Angeles have blocked access to a new chat bot that uses artificial intelligence to produce essays and poetry that seem like a human wrote them.

Several big school districts such as New York and Los Angeles have blocked access to a new chatbot that uses artificial intelligence to produce essays. One student has a new tool to help.

South Korea's military said it detected some 260 balloons which were floated over the border from North Korea, loaded with trash. It represents an escalation in a battle of balloons between the two.

Chang-Rae Lee is an award-winning author best known for his novels Native Speaker and The Surrendered. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Lee about his latest book On Such a Full Sea, a futuristic dystopian novel set in a declining America that's been repopulated by Chinese immigrant workers.

The New Jersey governor has said neither he nor his staff were involved in the closing of some key lanes leading onto the George Washington Bridge into New York. Democrats have said the governor's office may have been trying to punish the mayor of Fort Lee, N.J., for not supporting Christie's re-election bid.

The National Public Housing Museum opened April 4 in Chicago, with installations and exhibits as well as intimate individual, family, and community stories of living in public housing.

Tuesday's appellate court reinstatement of Syed's 2000 murder conviction, four months after it was vacated by another judge, has raised new questions about the case, and how justice is being served. Legal scholar David Jaros shares his insight.

Looking at Edgar Allen Poe's work through a LGBT lens. Maryland Morning theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck brings us her review of Iron Crow Theatre Company's…