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For NBA fans, grumbly and otherwise, the wait is almost over. The Finals begin tonight.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with journalist and professor DeNeen Brown about her new project, Printing Hate.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Emma Brown, an investigative reporter at The Washington Post, about sexual violence perpetrated against boys.

It was a big night for the films Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and Lady Bird, and the television miniseries Big Little Lies.

The novelist and poet joined Sarah M. Broom, László Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet, and Martin W. Sandler as winners Wednesday night — receiving $10,000 and a medallion for their front covers.

Vigilance and heat are currently your best weapons against bedbugs, exterminators say. But scientists are working on a way to give the bugs the hook with a strategy inspired by a Balkan folk remedy.

Suffolk County, on Long Island, is giving enforcement authority to a victims' advocacy group. Lawmakers call it a cost-effective way to keep citizens safe. But a local attorney who often represents sex offenders calls it a "vigilante exercise."

Liberal arts colleges are trying hard to attract minority students and faculty. But what happens when they get on campus? Host Michel Martin talks to the dean and chief diversity officer of Middlebury College, Shirley Collado, and her former student Sheyenne Brown, about initiatives to make schools more inclusive for people of color.

In Civil Rights Queen, author Tomiko Brown-Nagin profiles Motley, a Black woman who wrote the original complaint in Brown v. The Board of Education and was on Martin Luther King's legal team.

SCOTT TALKS WITH PETER GURALNICK, AUTHOR OF "LAST TRAIN TO MEMPHIS--THE RISE OF ELVIS PRESLEY" (LITTLE BROWN). THE BOOK TRACES THE FIRST 24 YEARS OF PRESLEY'S LIFE.