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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with core members of the influential spoken-word music group, Abiodun Oyewole and Umar Bin Hassan, about their new album Transcending Toxic Times.

Indians, along with the Nepalese, Pakistanis and many others, have been cooking with it for centuries. As Americans now embrace this ingredient with gusto, will its culinary heritage get blurred?

Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with indie rock singer and songwriter Lucy Dacus about her song "My Mother And I."

It was a warm, wet winter this year across much of the U.S., which means more snakes and a higher risk of bites. Here are some tips for avoiding vipers and their venom.

A 1970s ban on nunchucks was lifted in Arizona on Friday. Nunchucks were taken off the state's list of deadly weapons, making it no longer a felony risk to carry them in public.

Begaye was one of hundreds of Navajos recruited to develop a miltary code based on their native language during World War II.

We read listener responses to our call out: What do you really want for Mother's Day?

NPR's Michel Martin talks with Jose Montes de Oca, co-organizer of Code for Venezuela, an organization of tech workers who organize "hackathons" to help solve some of the country's problems.

In the series' penultimate episode, the quality of mercy gets seriously strained. And stabbed. And set aflame. And razed. And several characters meet their final fates.

A flashlight, a flower and a "lady farmer" are a few of the symbols on the ballot. They were originally meant to help illiterate voters. New symbols reflect urbanized, modern India.