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The run-down state of the historic Black cemetery is at the center of a legal battle over who is in charge of its operation, upkeep and land.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with actor Hugh Bonneville about his starring role in the play Uncle Vanya, which is showing at D.C.'s Harman Hall.

The Cat in the Hat, the book about a mischievous, irrepressible soul who always seemed kind of ageless, is 50 years old. At the time of its debut in 1957, the Cat was an instant success. The Dr. Seuss classic is still captivating to children and the adults who read to them.

Carlos Giménez's graphic novel Paracuellos is an unflinching memoir of his time in the orphanages of Franco's Spain; it makes the experiences of a few boys in the 1950s inescapably universal.

In 1908, a white lynch mob of thousands terrorized a Black neighborhood in Springfield, Ill. The events were so horrific they led to the founding of the NAACP.

Decertifying a police officer means taking away their badge and gun for good. More than a dozen states have enacted or strengthened paths to decertification but It’s still a relatively rare process.

In his seven-decade acting career, Martin Landau worked with a cast of Hollywood director greats, including Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen and Tim Burton.

When you sip tea, slurp noodles or sample hors d'oeuvres from a piece of hand-thrown pottery, there's a good chance you're experiencing the reach of American potter Warren MacKenzie. We visit the artist in his studio.

He may be better known for playing Bartok, but French violinist Laurent Korcia is a film buff and he devotes his new album to melodies from classic movie scores of the past 100 years.

Oliver Sim and Romy Madley Croft are young Londoners who lead an extremely spare band called The xx. They touch on Kraftwerk and The Cure, but never equal their volume.