NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Emily Watson and Olivia Williams, who play the leads in the HBO prequel series "Dune: ...

After the Civil War, Black voters faced danger and violence—and they fought for political power against all odds.

Alfred Blalock is a name known to every medical student, doctor and parent of a baby with Tetralogy of Fallot. Christiaan Barnard became a worldwide celebrity after performing the first human heart ...

At the start of her career, a senior colleague told her: "Just because of who you are, you will have to work harder than most people in the kitchen, because you are female, because you are black ...

As Americans have flocked south and west, more people have been exposed to the ... that maintains weather data and collects climate change information. At the U.N. climate conference in Azerbaijan ...

Oil prices are worth a focus this morning after the rises of last week. A barrel of Brent is down by more than 1% in early trading to stand at $78. There is a mire of conflicting factors driving ...

If we asked who the wealthiest person in the world was in the first half of the 19th century, many would likely think of ...