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Two leading community activists discuss changes at the city's innovative youth development agency.

On Midday today, we're marking the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday by meeting some local examplars of the MLK Day of Service ethic, who've taken the…

The election comes about two months after President Yoon Suk Yeol was removed from office following his impeachment for declaring martial law in the country.

One of the most popular writers of the legal thriller genre, John Grisham, talks to Terry about writing and law. His new book is called The Summons. It's about two brothers, their recently deceased father, and a mysterious stash of $3 million. Grisham is the author of Skipping Christmas, A Painted House, The Brethren, The Testament, The Street Lawyer, The Partner, The Runaway Jury, The Rainmaker, The Chamber, The Client, The Pelican Brief, The Firm, and A Time to Kill. Rebroadcast from Feb. 27, 1997.

Lisa talks with photographer, musician and music collector John Cohen about his new CD called There Is No Eye: Music for Photographs. The CD includes 23 recordings of musicians Cohen has photographed since 1952. Cohen has recorded and photographed, among others, Doc Watson, Bob Dylan, Roscoe Holcomb and Alan Lomax. The Corcoran gallery in Washington D.C. is currently hosting an exhibition of his photographs that are also collected in a new book called, There Is No Eye. (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)

Decades after the war, four black veterans return to Vietnam to recover a stash of buried gold. The timely film is a critique of the U.S.' long, shameful history of devaluing its black soldiers.

Also: J.K. Rowling says her mother never knew about Harry Potter, and George R.R. Martin on drones.

Her debut cookbook "The Korean Vegan Cookbook: Reflections and Recipes from Omma's Kitchen" has been nominated for a James Beard award for Best Vegetable-Focused cookbook.

Comedian John Early (Search Party) discusses playing narcissistic characters and officiating Amy Schumer's wedding. Then, he plays a game combining Hollywood Squares and Brady Bunch trivia.

1 in 68 U.S. children have an Autism Spectrum Disorder. In Maryland, 1 in 60 children are on the Spectrum.These statistics were released last month in a…

Secretary of State John Kerry raises a flag at the reopened U.S. Embassy in Havana on Friday, marking a change in relations between the Cold War era foes.

John Lasseter, Executive Vice President of Creative for Pixar, Inc. Lasseter was one of the founding members of the computer animated filmmaking company. He served as Director and Animator of the feature films Toy Story, Toy Story 2 and A Bugs Life. He was also Executive Producer of Monsters, Inc. Toy Story was the first computer-animated feature film. Lasseter also directed a number of shorts for Pixar, including Tin Toy, Reds Dream and Luxo, Jr. Tin Toy won an Oscar in 1988 for Best Animated Short Film. Lasseter joined Lucasfilms Computer Division in 1984, and then helped create Pixar in 1986. He previously worked as an animator for Walt Disney.

In 2012 and 2013, then Maryland Morning Producer Lawrence Lanahan, WYPR’s Sheilah Kast, Tom Hall and other members of the Maryland Morning team produced a…

The author's lawyer says a contract bars the producers of a high-profile stage adaptation from departing "in any manner" from the spirit of the classic novel.

In the new biopic "Lee," Kate Winslet stars as pioneering World War II-era photojournalist Lee Miller.

Author Harper Lee's estate is suing Aaron Sorkin over editorial liberties Sorkin took when turning the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird into a Broadway production.

KUER's Saige Miller discusses Utah's election results.

It looks like spring break could be on the chopping block for Baltimore County school students during the 2017-2018 school year. WYPR’s John Lee joins…

NPR's Sarah McCammon talks to Amy Lee, the co-founder and singer of Evanescence, about her band's first new album of original material in nearly a decade.

The planned removal of Charlottesville, Va.'s statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee stirred local controversy before fueling national flames.