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With Folkways curator Dan Sheehy as a guide, Alt.Latino explores how the music of West Africa has influenced Latin America and the Caribbean.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Matthew Weiner, creator of Mad Men, AMC's new show that centers on the high-powered world of Madison Avenue advertising agencies in the 1960's.

Severe droughts have lowered the levels of waterways around the world, leading to the discovery of several artifacts and historical sites previously hidden underwater.

Seventeen-year-old Sophia Park has become the youngest person to pass the California bar exam, following in her older brother's footsteps.

The city shut down the station in 1945 on New Year's Eve. Eighty years later, it's a symbolic venue choice for the incoming mayor's private swearing-in ceremony.

The Audubon Naturalist Society is dropping the name Audubon. John James Audubon was a famous ornithologist, who was also an enslaver and a grave robber who seized the skulls of Native Americans.

In Blackouts, Justin Torres plays with fact and fiction, and calls into question whose story gets told.

In Washington, D.C., residents celebrated Indigenous People's Day by birdwatching on Roosevelt Island. Centuries before the island became a memorial to the president, it was home to Native Americans.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks to Carmelo Crisanto, executive director of the Human Rights Violations Victims' Memorial Commission, about racing to archive human rights abuses in the Philippines.

In softcover, Found creator Davy Rothbart discusses his frequent failings at love, Robert Sullivan follows the footnotes of the American Revolution Hannah Rosin heralds a new era of female dominance.