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For hip-hop's not-official-but-kind-of-official 50th birthday, we dig into its many contradictions.

Watch as this fishing cat tries to teach her kittens how to catch fish.

Salt Lake City’s Japantown was once a thriving community for thousands of Japanese Americans. In 1966 city officials destroyed it for a glitzy new sports arena, one justified by an Olympic bid that ended in failure.

NPR's Andrew Limbong talks with Dionne Ford about her new book, Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing.

Today's episode is a true story that reads like a novel. In 2006, author and labor organizer Saket Soni received a call from an Indian migrant worker.

When we look at the world at the tiniest scales in the subatomic realm, things get weird – very weird.

Scientists had no idea what type of organisms the life forms of the Ediacaran were—lichen, colonies of bacteria, fungi or something else.

Dungeons & Dragons is one of the most popular tabletop role-playing games of all time. But it has also helped cement some ideas about how we create and define race in fantasy — and in the tangible world.

As the tree-climbing champ of the cat world, the margay has the ability to walk vertically down trees.

Throughout history, students have voiced their opinions on issues closest to their hearts.