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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Laura Nyro and The Beastie Boys incorporated the multi-genre pulse of the Big Apple in different ways, but each with lasting results.

Daily Beast and Newsweek editor Tina Brown selects two articles about the nature of journalism in the digital age and a book collecting the writing of expatriate Americans, including reporters living in Berlin in the 1930s.

Some of the hottest artists in Latin music descend on Miami for the annual Billboard Latin Music Conference and Awards. All week long, host Michel Martin checks in with Jasmine Garsd, co-host of NPR Music's Alt.Latino podcast, to find out which artists have pushed the boundaries of Latino music this year.

On Tuskegee, country artists like Tim McGraw help re-imagine the ballads that made Lionel Richie famous.

Mark Stryker covered jazz and its people for the Detroit Free Press for decades. He uses his reporter's eye and critic's ear to chronicle the musicians from the city who made their mark on the world.

Searchlights illuminate the sky between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, but they have nothing to do with border enforcement. They're part of a large-scale binational art installation.

The expiration of emergency jobless benefits is draining $15 billion a week from the U.S. economy. President Trump has offered to replace half that money, but states have been slow to accept.

In-person service jobs, which have been hit hard by the pandemic, are disproportionately done by women. Yet the unemployment rate is only part of the story.

Don Voegeli wrote the original theme for All Things Considered on a Putney synthesizer. When he retired in 1982, all his synths were auctioned off. A lot of people have wondered where they went.

The Connecticut-born bassist was known both for his attack on the fingerboard and the decades he spent nurturing the next generation of players.