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Journalist, novelist and playwright Thulani Davis traces her roots in My Confederate Kinfolk: a Twenty-First Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots. Among the revelations Davis uncovered was that her ancestors include a Scots-Irish clan of cotton planters as well as Africans from Sierra Leone.

For abortion-rights defenders, the fall of Roe v. Wade was a disaster in slow motion. That made the blow no less painful. Thirteen people with personal connections to the issue share their stories.

Muldaur's new double CD, His Last Letter, traces the musical influences of his life, and is arranged for, and performed with, Dutch chamber musicians. Originally broadcast December 2009.

Mickey Mantle was everything Jane Leavy remembered when she met him. He was the Hall of Fame Yankee, with unmet potential; the great competitor, with a smile as wide as Oklahoma. But Mantle was human, and fought his own demons. Leavy tells Mantle's story, the story of her hero, in The Last Boy..

This month, a Utah man murdered his wife, and their five children, and his mother-in-law, before killing himself. That’s sparked a conversation among Mormon women about power and safety in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Investigators in Ukraine have opened more than 50,000 inquiries into alleged Russian war crimes since the war began. NPR looked into the death of one man to show the challenges investigators face.

As far back as 2800 B.C., the Assyrians warned that the end of the world was near. Mayans predicted the apocalypse for 2012. Jerry Walls of the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame talks about our ongoing fascination with the end of days.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault takes calls about her NPR series, which looks at poverty in six countries in sub-Saharan Africa. She wanted to find out how close the United Nations is to meeting its goal of cutting poverty in half on the continent by 2015.

For the first time, the band members, their crew and their fans tell the story of a landmark moment they didn't realize was happening. Sonic Youth's new album, Live in Brooklyn 2011, is out this week.

A Pew poll shows that Americans' trust in government and its institutions is at a near-historic low. But the government isn't limited to the talking heads on your television — it's also your neighborhood cops, firefighters, school nurses and bus drivers.