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The director, who has been nominated for an Academy Award for his film BlacKkKlansman,spoke to Fresh Air in December 2017 about his Netflix series, She's Gotta Have It.

Midday takes a look at the bridge recovery process and its impact on local business and labor.

Texas congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, a leading voice for progressive causes in the House, died Friday in Houston.

Lee adapts Aristophanes' Lysistratainto the story of a Chicago woman who pledges to withhold sex as leverage to stop violence.

Tried as a juvenile in the 2002 slayings of 10 people, Lee Boyd Malvo got multiple life sentences without parole. Now, an appeals court has affirmed that several of the sentences must be tossed.

The environmental cleanup of Sparrows Point in Eastern Baltimore County is approaching what the developer of the site says will be a milestone. The…

Konitz, who died April 15, had one of the longest careers in jazz. He was an intuitive soloist, with a mercurial tone, a quick mind and lifelong commitment to improvisation.

Robert talks with Martin Lee, the chairman of the Democratic Party in Hong Kong, and a member of Hong Kong's legislative council. They discuss the transition of Hong Kong from the status of British colony to Chinese city, as the date for this transfer of control approaches.

Linda talks with Captain Dan Manley of the Lee's Summit, Missouri Fire Department about the damage in that town from a "microburst" that struck the town overnight. Ten people were injured and one hundred nineteen homes damaged in the storm, which registered winds of one hundred ten to one hundred twenty miles per hour.

Farai Chideya talks with Newsweek national correspondent Allison Samuels about the latest Hollywood news. Today, we discuss The L.A. Times' retraction of a story on Tupac Shakur, Spike Lee's ongoing struggle to fund his movies, and Terri Vaughn's new documentary, Angels Can't Help but Laugh.

In 1970, Morgan recorded three shows at the Lighthouse jazz club in Hermosa Beach, Calif. A new box set captures Morgan and his band putting their own spin on Coltrane's trance-like repetitions.

Asian American authors take on prejudice and stereotypes in two new great books.

It's being hailed as Spike Lee's best film in years, but NPR's Justin Richmond says BlacKkKlansman breezes over its main character's inner conflicts and lets polemics get in the way of storytelling.

In a move that infuriated supporters of museums to be dedicated to Latinos and women on the National Mall, the Republican senator blocked legislation Thursday that would lead to the creation of both.

Marion reads novels down by the seashore.

The celebrated and prolific novelist's latest work is an exuberant and poignant tale of youth, love and hope.

Director of the Brookings Institution Center for Public Management, JOHN DILULIO, JR. (pronounced "D-OO-lee-oh"). He's also a professor at Princeton University and member of the Council on Crime in America. He's just co-authored a new book in which he and others warn that though violent crime by juveniles may be down now, the worse is yet to come. They blame violent crime not on economic poverty, guns, or the use of lack of prisons. They argue that "moral poverty" is the cause, the absence of "loving, capable, responsible adults who teach the young right from wrong." Their book is "Body Count: Moral Poverty. . . And How to Win America's War Against Crime and Drugs" (Simon & Schuster

Terri Lee Freeman previously served as director of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee.

Stephen Schiff on Spike Lee''s new film "Crooklyn."