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Musician Tony Trischka knows there's more to banjo than The Beverly Hillbillies. He has explored the banjo and its rich history, from African melodies to jazz fusion and classical arrangements.

Martin Luther King Jr. was in Memphis in 1968 rallying for fair treatment and pay of African-American sanitation workers when he was assassinated. American history professor Michael Honey joins Fresh Air to discuss his book on the labor campaign King was leading at the time of his death.

Noted historian and pioneering Duke University Professor John Hope Franklin died yesterday at the age of 94. The legendary educator was widely respected for chronicling the African-American experience. Franklin's friends discuss his lasting legacy.

Forty years ago tonight, the Peanuts gang made Halloween history with the first broadcast of It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!. The show's producer, and the actor who played Charlie, look back.

German photographer Sascha Fonseca set out bait-free camera traps three years ago to capture the ever-elusive snow leopard in the Indian Himalayas.

For three of the teams, it is the first time in school history their men's basketball teams have been to the Final Four.

The man convicted of killing 11 worshipers and wounding six others at the Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018 could face the death penalty. The attack is the deadliest antisemitic assault in U.S. history.

Listeners sent in their thoughts in response to a review of the highs and lows of the Bush presidency.

There have been 40 consecutive drawings since the last time someone won Powerball's top prize on New Year's Day. The jackpot ranks as the eighth largest in U.S. lottery history.

In a new book, Policing Pregnant Bodies, author Kathleen Crowther grapples with how very old ideas – some of them misogynistic – shape how we think about pregnancy and abortion today.