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A team from Trinidad and Tobago takes the field Saturday in Germany for a World Cup match against Sweden. It's Trinidad's first appearance in soccer's most prestigious event. Trinidad native Dane Bernard -- a soccer fan and coach -- talks with Scott Simon about the match.

The 1951 movie The Day the Earth Stood Still was amplified with the help of composer Bernard Herrmann's eerie score. Now the sounds reverberate anew in the video game "Destroy All Humans." Garry Schyman, who composed the music for the game, tells Liane Hansen about it.

Fifty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. went north, leading the Chicago Freedom Movement. Bernard Kleina and his camera were there, too — and the former priest walks NPR through his color photos.

Educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune makes history as the first Black person to have a state-commissioned statue in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall, replacing a confederate statue.

100 years ago, thousands of women marched on Washington D.C. to demand the right to vote. Host Michel Martin asks the Beauty Shop ladies about that moment in history, and where the women's rights movement stands today.

Prosecutors asked a judge on Monday to sentence Bill Cosby to prison for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman. His defense attorney said the 81-year-old entertainer is too old for prison.

Leftovers are a special part of Thanksgiving, but sometimes, they're in need of a little help. A little heat, perhaps, from a product that has become as quintessentially American as turkey: TABASCO. For Morning Edition, NPR's Renee Montagne reports on the epic history of TABASCO, Louisiana's premier hot sauce.

The man accused of operating a Ponzi scheme is expected to plead guilty to charges he engineered one of the largest investment scams in U.S. history. Bernard Madoff faces more than 100 years in prison. Some of the victims of the multi-billion-dollar investment scheme will have their say at Thursday's plea hearing.

More than 35 years ago, Bernard and Shirley Kinsey began acquiring documents, artifacts and artworks that tell the story of the African-American experience. The collection, which spans more than 400 years, spotlights not black pain, they say, but the strength and resilience of African-Americans.

Some of the victims of Bernard Madoff's financial scheme will be in court Tuesday. They are suing the court-appointed trustee of Madoff's estate over the way he figured their compensation.