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Music can make your day. One song playing at the right moment, perhaps with the right cup of coffee, can really make life worth living.

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include new releases from Jon Batiste, Hozier, Rhiannon Giddens, Cautious Clay and more.

Obama biographer David Garrow discusses the 44th president's missteps on foreign policy and how he inadvertently helped Donald Trump's political rise.

Blind Boys of Alabama have returned today to unveil the closing track from their upcoming album Echoes Of The South, coming September 8 on Single Lock Records. A reimagining of Stevie Wonder’s “Heaven Help Us All” (originally penned by Ron Miller), the five-time GRAMMY-winners bring their iconic and unmistakable vocal stylings to this chart-topping classic from one of their multi-time collaborators.

The fifth annual Crossroads of American Music Award will be presented to Keb' Mo', a five-time GRAMMY winner known for his contributions to...

“A Call to Conscience: Defending Freedom & Human Rights,” presented by the Chicago-based Parliament of the World’s Religions, August 14-18, 2023

Five-time GRAMMY award-winner Keb’ Mo’ will be the recipient of the fifth annual Crossroads of American Music Award at this year’s gala at the GRAMMY Museum Mississippi. The event, which will take place at the Cleveland museum at 6:00 p.m. on September 28, is set to feature a reception, dinner...

Sixty-eight years ago, America was forced to confront racial hatred at Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ. 

What is the Emmett Till monument? Roberts Temple Church Of God In Christ, site of the Emmett Till funeral, is now a national monument.

CHICAGO — At the South Side church where Emmett Till’s open casket funeral took place nearly 68 years ago, elected officials and other leaders gathered Tuesday to unveil a temporary sign marking the recently designated national monument honoring Till and his mother, both of whom helped launch the Civil Rights Movement. Illinois’ governor and lieutenant governor, Chicago’s mayor, the state’s ...