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Democrats Malcolm Kenyatta, who is a Clinton delegate, social worker Amy Hoag, and Gary Frazier of Black Men for Bernie are in Philadelphia for the DNC. They discuss challenges facing the party.

Filmmaker Raoul Peck's latest documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, is based an unpublished book by James Baldwin, about the lives and deaths of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.

In 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. visited Chicago to fight for fair and open housing. NPR's Michel Martin and WBEZ examined the state of activism in Chicago around fair housing and other issues today.

By Joe Donahuehttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-911677.mp3Albany, NY – Joe speaks with The Oath playwright, Gavin…

Scott Morrison was chosen as the country's new prime minister by members of Australia's Liberal Party. The outgoing Malcolm Turnbull said "a determined insurgency" in his own party brought him down.

The Arkansas native is remembered for his fierce challenges to traditional Christian norms of his era.

Why do Asian kids outperform American kids in math? How did Bill Gates become a billionaire computer entrepreneur? Malcolm Gladwell takes on these questions and more in his book Outliers. He argues that the "self-made man" is a myth.

It's too hot to go outside, so stay inside and watch TV! NPR's Scott Simon gets some recommendations on what to watch from critic Maureen Ryan.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Malcolm Alexander and Frederick Clay, who spent decades in prison after wrongful convictions, about what it means to receive monetary compensation after exoneration.

Baraka was one of the key black literary voices of the 1960s. The political and social views that inspired his writing changed over the years, from his bohemian days as a young man in Greenwich Village to his later years as a Marxist. He spoke to Fresh Air's Terry Gross in 1986.