As the Trump administration moves to quickly expand immigration detention space, a series of standoffs have emerged between ...

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WBGO's President and CEO Steven A. Williams responds to President Trump issuing an executive order seeking cessation of ...

Beloved singer and Newark native Andrew W. “Andy” Bey, who illuminated the jazz scene for five decades with his four-octave, ...

WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with Tony Award-nominated Broadway actress, singer and writer Melissa Errico about her special May 7 ...

President Trump says he is ordering federal agencies to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz — the notorious maximum security prison that closed more than 60 years ago. "I am directing the Bureau of Prisons, ...

Thirteen former employees of influential data-mining firm Palantir are condemning the company's work with the Trump administration weeks after Immigration and Customs Enforcement reached a deal to pay ...

Arturo O’Farrill was, by his own admission, a “long-haired, stoned-out freaky kid” of 19, playing piano in a small bar in upstate New York when he caught the ear of pianist and composer Carla Bley.

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. This is my first show back in about 2 1/2 weeks. Today's show is all about why. My husband, my partner of 47 years, Francis Davis, died after a long illness on ...

The letters began arriving at medical journals around the country over the last few weeks. "It has been brought to my attention that more and more journals and publications … are conceding that they ...

Pauline Lee is the daughter of immigrants who came to the United States as teenagers, with nothing. "When they came here they were dirt poor," she recalled. They worked entry-level jobs at first, ...