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From virtuoso players and visionary composers to charismatic bandleaders and golden-eared producers, explore the musical voices who left us this year.

NPR examines previously undisclosed financial records from Daystar Television. Those files raise issues as basic as the definition of "church" and as grand as the role of government in religion.

As Russia's invasion of Ukraine entered its second month, the U.N. says more than 3.7 million people have fled to neighboring countries and another 6.4 million have been displaced within the country.

It's a grueling and risky life for these miners, known as zama zamas, an isiZulu phrase translating loosely as "those who take a chance." Says one: "Bit by bit it's killing something inside me."

As the year reaches its mid-point, we have answers to a question more pressing than what to wear to the cookout or how early should we arrive at the fireworks show: What should I listen to?

Our favorite songs from this strange period of re-emergence, the first six months of 2021.

The three founders of the Brooklyn-based all-female DJ collective Discwoman are chipping away at club culture's bro problem.

A new crop of parties across the U.S.A. is reconnecting dance music with a particular chapter in its own vivid history.

The crossover hits stacking Grammy nods this year have little in common with the culture that birthed them — but they're winning the chart game.

A blockbuster new study finds that America's elite private colleges are systematically giving huge advantages to rich kids over their equally bright, yet less privileged peers.