In a volatile music industry, some musicians are gravitating towards OnlyFans, a social media platform that has garnered a reputation for hosting sexual content.
Misinformation about fentanyl exposure threatens to undermine overdose response
Fentanyl overdoses occur from ingesting the synthetic opioid. But popular culture has misrepresented the risks to first responders.
What is Tren de Aragua’s footprint in the U.S.? Experts say smaller than federal officials say
Unreliable federal gang data and a heavy reliance on tattoos and clothing styles can skew the picture of this Venezuelan gang’s operations in America.
A legend weighs in on a Christmas classic
Brenda Lee, now 80, recorded “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” when she was 13. The living legend talked to NPR last year when her song — finally — hit number one. We revisit that conversation.
U.S. break dancers prepare for their Olympic debut in Paris
B-girl Sunny Choi — who was born in Cookeville — is set to become one of the first breakers to compete in the Olympics.
Victor Wooten, Bach, & Gospel Marching Band
Grammy Award-winning bass player Victor Wooten joins “From the Top” for our exciting musical journey out of Nashville, and we meet the drum major from Tennessee State University’s Aristocrat of Bands.
As protests consume college campuses, where’s the line between safety, free speech?
NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Daniel Diermeier, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, about campus protests, free speech and student safety.
The 14th Amendment
Of all the amendments to the U.S. Constitution, the 14th is a big one. It’s shaped all of our lives, whether we realize it or not: Roe v. Wade, Brown v. Board of Education, Bush v. Gore, plus other Supreme Court cases that legalized same-sex marriage, interracial marriage, access to birth control — they’ve all been built on the back of the 14th.
The amendment was ratified after the Civil War, and it’s packed full of lofty phrases like due process, equal protection, and liberty. But what do those words really guarantee us?
Today on the show: how the 14th Amendment has remade America – and how America has remade the 14th.
Tracing the history of Latino artists making country music
The release of Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” has sparked a national conversation about who gets to sing country music and the complex roots of the genre. Which got Alt.Latino thinking — what about the Latinos in country?
In bluegrass, as in life, Molly Tuttle would rather be a ‘Crooked Tree’
Molly Tuttle’s new album is her third. But in many ways, it’s a reintroduction – of her prodigious guitar talent, of her personal story, and to the Recording Academy that decides Grammy Awards.
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