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Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn speaks with musician Leyla McCalla, who plays Twoubadou music to connect with her Haitian heritage.

Opera Philadelphia commissioned the composer to use the 1887 Frances Harper poem “Save the Boys” as opera for the Black Lives Matter movement.

Photographer Nikki Johnson got a backstage pass to roam the diseased body parts not seen by the public at the Mütter Museum.

The Reading Public Museum knows what the Ancient Egyptian woman named Nefrina looked like in 300 B.C., so it recreated her as a hologram.

Community members will have a chance to weigh in on the new name.

In this handful of names with city roots, there are stories long forgotten and glimpses of an overlooked past.

Unlike many of its kind, the Ibach was successfully extracted from Nazi Germany in 1936.

Some Republicans are arguing that Trump should not face a Senate impeachment trial because he's a private citizen. That was argued before — and rejected narrowly in 1876.

The Biden Administration will resume efforts to redesign the $20 bill to feature abolitionist Harriet Tubman, the White House said Monday.

Right-wing extremism has previously played out for the most part in isolated pockets of America and in its smaller cities.

Siberia's landscape has long been defined by ice, wind, and darkness. But underneath the region's bleak history and barren geography lives a uniquely Siberian piano culture.

Along with dystopian novels and White House tell-alls, the U.S. Constitution has been a best-seller during the Trump years.

The civil rights leader spoke to a crowd protesting segregation at Girard College.

Changes aim to strengthen the panel by giving it more independence and ensuring that the curriculum it helps develop is used more widely in New Jersey schools.

Five decades later after Martin Luther King’s assassination, the neighborhood school is fighting to provide a high-quality education.