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For most contestants, competing in Miss Calendar Girl, a pageant for LGBTQ South Africans, regardless of whether they've transitioned, is about being seen and heard.

Jeff Tweedy's new book is his tribute to the songs and songwriters that inspired him to start making music in the first place — and then to keep doing it for a long time.

There's a stark difference between how the national press covered the events of 1963 in Birmingham and how Birmingham's papers covered their own city. Audie Cornish talks with Alabama journalist Hank Klibanoff, co-author of The Race Beat, about the disparity.

In Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada, Shahu Patole pays tribute to a cuisine that has long been considered not worthy of documentation. We interviewed Patole — and are sharing some of his recipes.

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Here, John Ruwitch talks about his many years of reporting on China, for this week's Reporter's Notebook.

The show's suspension comes amid broader efforts to curb diversity at the institutional level. The next attempt to canonize the movement must learn lessons from its successes — and its missteps.

About 70 people have won 100 or more Florida Lottery scratch-off tickets in the past decade. How?

It's a strategy some countries have adopted to boost falling fertility rates. Here's why it often fails.

Gainesville city officials announced their plans to become the most "citizen-centered city" in the world at the State of the City address through redesigning its website, among other things, to make government more accessible to citizens.

On speaking at UF Zanes said, “When the call comes from Gainesville, I pick up, because you can’t tell the Tom Petty story without going to Gainesville. It’s a special place.” On Tom Petty's untimely death: "“I didn’t think Jerry Lee Lewis was still going to be alive and Tom Petty wasn’t going to be here. I was just looking forward to those records...."