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For Brother Of Baton Rouge Shooting Victim, A Devastating Loss

Montrell Jackson was one of the three police officers killed in Sunday's shooting in Baton Rouge, La. His brother Kedrick Pitts speaks with NPR's Michel Martin, remembering him as his "best friend."

Michelle Zauner (L) of Japanese Breakfast performs with drummer Craig Hendrix at the Intersect music festival at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds on December 07, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

You Are What You Cook

In her memoir, Crying In H Mart, released earlier this year, author and musician Michelle Zauner explores how cooking helped her understand her identity as a Korean American after her mother's death.

A traffic jam somewhere in Washington state. In Oregon, Senate Bill 1510 aims to change the way law enforcement governs traffic stops, but also change the state’s parole and probation policies.

Oregon lawmakers take fresh look at bill to limit minor traffic stops

Senate Bill 1510 contains pieces of a farther-reaching bill that died in last year's session. Law enforcement groups say it could make roads less safe.

Sen. Anthony Broadman, D-Bend, is a key author of a proposal to disconnect Oregon's tax code from some federal changes.

Oregon Democrats float plan to reclaim state money lost to Trump tax cut bill

The proposal to disconnect from some pieces of H.R 1 is likely to generate friction in the brand-new session.

Burkhard Bilger's book 'Fatherland' explores his family's Nazi past in Germany

NPR's Scott Simon talks with author Burkhard Bilger about his new book "Fatherland" which explores his family's own Nazi past in Germany.

This time around, Oregon’s Republican lawmakers are boycotting in plain sight

In past years, many Republicans would leave the state during walkouts. This year some aren't even leaving Salem.

Ahmad Jamal, measured maestro of the jazz piano, dies at 92

The pianist's 1958 recording At The Pershing: But Not For Me spent 108 weeks on the Billboard album chart.

Author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah on his new novel 'Chain-Gang All-Stars'

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah about his new novel, "Chain-Gang All-Stars."

Ensigns Tendi (voiced by Noel Wells), Mariner (voiced by Tawny Newsome) and Boimler (voiced by Jack Quaid) do Starfleet's grunt work on <em>Star Trek: Lower Decks.</em>

With 'Star Trek: Lower Decks,' A Venerable Franchise Loosens Up

The animated series spoofs Trek with in-jokes and easter eggs and even if the gags aren't yet firing on all nacelles, the premise — Starfleet's D-listers — holds promise.

Visitors to "Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined" at the New Museum are greeted by "In Two Canoe" (foreground) and "For Whom the Bell Tolls," two sculptures by the Kenyan-born artist that feature fantastical hybrid creatures set against a landscape that uses gray emergency relief blankets to depict the silhouette of Mount Kenya.

The fantastical art of Wangechi Mutu: from plant people to a 31-foot snake

Mutu, who lives in Nairobi and Brooklyn, is the star of a show at New York's New Museum. Her art takes on viruses, genocide, junk mail (the "sleeping serpent" is full of it), her own hybrid identity.

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