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NPR is filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration, arguing an executive order aimed at cutting federal funding for the organization is illegal.
NPR filed a lawsuit Tuesday against President Donald Trump, arguing that an executive order aimed at cutting federal funding for the organization is illegal.
National Public Radio (NPR) is suing President Trump’s administration over his executive order targeting public broadcasting funding, alleging the move violates the outlet’s First Amendment rights.
The Trump administration is seeking to end all federal contracts with Harvard University. NBC News' Garrett Haake reports more from the White House. Host of NPR's "Morning Edition" Steve Inskeep, who ...
Billie Holiday made a single, wry nod to gospel in "God Bless the Child," an ersatz spiritual that quotes a nonexistent Bible verse. The stylized gospel-choir chorus on the 1950 Decca recording ...
On May 5th, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute held its annual fundraising gala. The event showcases ...
For a show that's never been shy about celebrating itself, Saturday Night Live was bound to lean hard into its 50th season.
Kandace Springs' ode to Billie Holiday is an introspective journey through the joy and sorrow of our experience as grown ...
Voices honoring female jazz and blues legends Billie Holiday, Phyllis Hyman, Nancy Wilson and Bessie Smith drifted through Aretha's Jazz Café, in Detroit's Music Hall Center for the Performing ...
Thornetta Davis as Bessie Smith (from left), Sky Covington as Billie Holiday, Veronique Musique as Nancy Wilson, Lady Vonne as Phyllis Hyman and Lucretia Sain as Lottie "The Body" ...