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While the creators of a a new opera about Emmett Till hope it will inspire white people to confront racism, others worry it depicts Black trauma for white entertainment while masquerading as activism.

More and more, companies such as Microsoft, Boeing and IBM are throwing out traditional job interview questions in favor of queries like "If you had to remove one state, which would it be?" NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports that the goal is to find out how a potential employee really thinks. See sample questions.

A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped to improve billions of lives — and keep us from getting lost.

For Jordanian Palestinians with family in the Gaza Strip, that distance can feel painfully close and impossibly far. Across Jordan on Friday, thousands of people marched in support of Palestinians.

Chris Gloninger, a TV news meteorologist in Iowa, got harrassing emails and a death threat over his coverage of climate change. Now he's leaving the industry to tackle climate change head-on.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with former Health and Human Services Department Secretary Donna Shalala about her views on the Trump administration's cuts to the agency.

Scott Simon speaks with Muse frontman Matt Bellamy about the band's new album, "Will of the People."

The pope will canonize 18th-century Spanish priest Junipero Serra in the U.S. later this month. But descendants of the Mission Indians in California say Serra destroyed their traditional way of life.

The advice for avoiding Zika virus: Don't get bitten by mosquitoes in countries where the virus is spreading. So which repellents work — and which don't?

José Anzaldo is a third-grader who is a math whiz. He's also the son of itinerant lettuce pickers. A new documentary explores what might become of this promising boy.