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Birmingham, Ala., is seeing a high rate of overdose deaths and addiction among Black men. Officials blame fentanyl and a lack of addiction treatment.

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Jesse Washington of ESPN's Andscape if the NBA is entering a new era of disciplining players for bad behavior.

NPR's Rob Schmitz speaks with Jesse Rudoy, director of the documentary "Dusty & Stones," about the African country music duo of the same name.

Dungeons & Dragons is a game invented in the 1970s where people sit around a table playing characters on a fantasy adventure. But over the past decade, D&D has emerged as a popular form of spectator entertainment.

Barbie is now the highest grossing Warner Brothers movie in the studio's history. But Barbie has broken a few more records so far — at least 17 of them.

The Other Black Girl and Dreaming Whilst Black talk about race, class, gender and upward mobility in compelling ways

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Civil Rights Corps founder Alec Karakatsanis about the movement to eliminate cash bail on a national level, after Illinois abolished cash bail this week.

Azerbaijan has attacked Armenian forces as Russia, the official peacekeeper in the region, appears absorbed by its war in Ukraine.

More than 100,000 ethnic Armenians have fled from Azerbaijan to Armenia. The country is struggling with the sudden loss of the self-declared autonomous enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Juan Gabriel was one of the biggest stars of Latin pop music. A new podcast delves into his early life in Ciudad Juarez, and the taboo of queerness in Mexican culture.