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It began on the edgy margins of a mainstream festival — which it's now eclipsed. But nearly 80 years on, performers and ...
Perkins, who died in 1998, wrote "Blue Suede Shoes," the hit song sung by Elvis Presley, which became the first Sun label record to sell over a million copies. He spoke to Fresh Air in 1996.
Moore, who died in 2016, booked gigs for Presley during the early part of the musician's career and later penned the memoir, That's Alright, Elvis. He spoke in 1997 about recording "Blue Suede Shoes." ...
Scrawled in pencil on a scrap of yellow legal paper by lyricist E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, the artifact is among dozens of treasures ...
Karin Slaughter’s new book opens on a hot summer night in Georgia. It’s Madison Dalrymple’s 15th birthday and she has a big ...
The detention, which was expected, happened after Abrego Garcia walked into the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building ...
Trump threatens to send National Guard troops to Chicago, similarly to what he has done in the nation's capital. And, Trump ...
NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson about President Trump's threat to deploy the National Guard to his city.
National Guard troops and federal agents have a visible presence in Washington, D.C., and now President Trump has threatened to send them into Chicago.
The lawyer for a man wrongly deported by the Trump administration to an El Salvador prison, then returned months later, says his client faces deportation again — this time to Uganda.
At the International AIDS Society meeting this year, a young woman from South Africa spoke. She is the first Black woman from ...
This is a recurring feature in celebration of the show’s 25th anniversary. A shortened version of this episode ran earlier in ...