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In a new book, economist William Darity Jr. argues that monetary payments are owed directly to the descendants of enslaved people, to help reverse more than two centuries of disenfranchisement.

Atlanta area donors didn't want to see the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s papers go up for auction, so they raised enough money to bring the collection to the city's library for historically black colleges and universities. Many say King's papers will be at home in the city of his youth.

When a woman at a bookstore in Brattleboro, Vt., put Castle Freeman Jr.'s novel Go With Me into author Charles Bock's hand, he had no idea what a wry, primal, epic and impossible-to-put-down book he had just been given.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 53 medical schools in 31 states will expand their nutrition curriculum to 40 hours. Most medical schools fall short of the recommended 25 hours.

In announcing his pick, Trump said Oz will work closely with RFK Jr. "to take on the illness industrial complex." Oz, a celebrity physician, ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 2022.

Clarence B. Jones, a lawyer and adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died last week. Jones helped King write his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. He was 95.

Former President Donald Trump is accused of a conspiracy to overturn his 2020 defeat. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to constitutional law scholar Fred Smith Jr., professor at Emory University School of Law.

At a plantation once owned by James Monroe, America's fifth president, descendants of slaves owned by Monroe have become part of the story for the first time in 225 years.

Donald Trump Jr. met in 2016 with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a lawyer described as close to the Kremlin. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly asks Atlantic writer Julia Ioffe exactly what that means.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new approach to six shots that were formerly given routinely will introduce new hurdles for getting kids immunized. And it could have a chilling effect on doctors.