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There are as many opinions on what's "appropriate" as there are threads hanging from those forbidden cutoffs.

Thousands of civil rights activists descended upon Mississippi in 1964 to help register African-American voters. For many, the first stop was intensive training — including how to take a beating.

As testing for doping in sports becomes more sophisticated, so do the drugs. Looking at the recent history of cycling can make you wonder how many cheaters continue to slip by undetected.

Residents of two regions of eastern Ukraine voted in a controversial referendum over sovereignty from the central government in Kiev. Meanwhile, clashes with government forces continued.

Albarn recently stopped by WFUV's studio in the Bronx, where he and his band the Heavy Seas were joined by New York's Scorchio Quartet. Watch them perform "Lonely Press Play" together.

Simon Singh spotted the equation on a Homer Simpson blackboard. Had Homer just solved one of the toughest puzzles in math? His solution, crazily, seemed "valid" — so Singh checked Homer's numbers.

"I began to see myself as a combination of all the song structures that have come into my life for the last 50 years," Amos says of writing her new album, Unrepentant Geraldines.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Walter Martin, former member of The Walkmen, about his new family album, We're All Young Together.

After Sam was drafted by the Rams, he celebrated by kissing his boyfriend. Sam will become the first openly gay player in the NFL.

Pro-Moscow separatists hold their unofficial referendum on independence for eastern Ukraine on Sunday. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to correspondents Corey Flintoff and Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson.