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NPR's Michel Martin talks to Dee Barnes, who chronicled the rise of hip-hop in the 1990s on the influential TV show Pump It Up!

President Trump isn't the first politician to call for the end of the penny — but getting rid of it may not be easy. The value of the 1-cent coin has been debated for decades.

One year after the #MeToo movement took off, new NPR-Ipsos polls show the nation deeply divided on the issue of sexual assault and harassment. The fissures run more along party lines than gender.

Kids – even some young kids – are being exposed to an unprecedented amount of pornography online and a lot of it is violent and misogynistic. There are tools parents can use to block this content.

Last year, the video game industry generated around $190 BILLION in revenue. More than the music and film industry combined. How did this medium go from the arcade into a global juggernaut? That's the subject of a new podcast series called Hidden Levels.

NPR economics, science and politics correspondents relay the latest in the response to the coronavirus epidemic in the United States.

We know you want to be the best you in 2022, so we're offering a curated selection of excerpts from 2021 Life Kit episodes to help you do just that. Here's how to go on a "social media diet."

A family in Houston and a plumber in Maryland couldn't afford rent, which pushed them into crowded living quarters. During the COVID-19 pandemic, that common predicament has increased viral spread.

For the first time, a wolf wearing a radio collar traveled south of Interstate-90 into Washington’s Southern Cascade Mountains. In addition, conservation groups raise concerns about the lethal removal of a gray wolf in Washington, and ranchers worry about a lack of range riders.

It started when Moustapha Sané lost his wallet in Dakar. He created the Facebook page "Trouvés ou Perdus" (French for found or lost). It often leads to a reunion, though some pigeons are still M.I.A.