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DOVER, Del. (AP) - Delaware public school students made little to no overall progress on state assessments this year.Test results released Wednesday by…

A new book of photographs captures a portrait of America's black farmers as their numbers dwindle. John Ficara and NPR's Juan Williams talk about the black families who still work on American family farms.

William F. Buckley Jr., the father of the modern conservative movement, died this week at age 82.

Ever wonder how a song gets stuck in your head? Neurologist Oliver Sacks explains this and other mind-music mysteries in his new book, Musicophilia.

Johan Grimonprez's film charts both the hopes and the tragedies of Africa's freedom movements in the shadow of the Cold War, as the Soviet Union and the U.S. jockey for influence in the "new world."

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with author and comedian Mike Albo about the virtues of buying holiday gifts at the absolute last minute.

When Andy Marra came out as a transgendered woman, she got lots of support from her adoptive American parents. She wanted to move forward with hormones or surgery, but not until she found her birth family in South Korea. She shared that journey in an essay titled 'The Beautiful Daughter: How My Korean Mother Gave Me the Courage to Transition.'

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with author Mia Mercado about her new book She's Nice Though, which explores why women, in particular, feel the need to perform niceness in so many situations.

Since the end of World War II, many of the world's preeminent photojournalists have become members of the international photographer's cooperative Magnum. More than 60 members of the exclusive club share their work in a new book called Magnum Stories.

When the candidate was assassinated 40 years ago, Hamill was there: He was Kennedy's friend and had helped persuade him to run for president. A journalist and author, Hamill covered the story for The Village Voice.