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Denzel Washington directs and stars in the new film The Great Debaters, inspired by the true story of Wiley College's winning debate team of the early 1930s. The film also stars Forest Whitaker.

The independent paper published the faces of the victims on Sunday in a powerful homage to the 21 lives lost.

Across the country, so-called hip-hop churches fuse religion, music and dance to lure gang members off the streets. Troy Evans, a former gang member, leads Edge Urban Fellowship in Grand Rapids, Mich. He says that leading church congregants isn't that much different from leading gang members.

Recent bribery scandals involving state legislators have fueled discussion on campaign finance reform at the Capitol in Albany, with several politicians…

In his maiden speech, newly minted Sen. Fraser Anning of the far-right Katter's Australian Party called for a revival of long-rescinded racially based immigration policies.

In 1953, a 27-year-old Hugh Hefner pasted up the first issue of Playboy magazine on the kitchen table of his Chicago apartment. Fifty years later, Hefner reflects on the fate of the sexual revolution his magazine helped to spark -- and the need to embrace sexuality in a healthy way.

Dealing with rude, angry people is not fun. But when fictional, these unpleasant personalities can actually be quite charming. Author Ben Dolnick recommends three books and three central characters that'll have you flipping the page faster than you'd flip them the bird.

"I don't think we do Ali any good by treating him as a saint," says biographer Jonathan Eig. "He was a human being, and he was deeply flawed." Originally broadcast Oct. 4, 2017.

Twitter has handed over about three months' worth of an Occupy Wall Street protester's tweets to a judge in a criminal trial. WAMC’s Dave Lucas reportsThe…

In his first major address since last week’s corruption scandals in Albany involving the arrests of state Senator Malcolm Smith, Assemblyman Eric…