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Pakistan's top female squash player used to disguise herself as a boy, to avoid possible Taliban retribution. When her secret was revealed, she faced a terrible choice. Host Scott Simon talks with Maria Toorpakai and her coach, former squash world champion Jonathon Power.

After years of discrimination from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, black farmers are now getting a $1.25 billion settlement. Founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association John Boyd tells host Michel Martin what this settlement means for farmers and their families.

Filmmaker Morgan Neville's new documentary chronicles backup singers who have supported some of the biggest acts in music history, from Ike and Tina Turner to The Rolling Stones and sung some of pop music's catchiest hooks.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Vivian Yoon. Her new podcast K-Pop Dreaming is a personal and historical journey through Korean pop music.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Clive Owen about playing an older, slower Sam Spade in the AMC series "Monsieur Spade."

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author Jason Reynolds about his new young adult novel, "Twenty-four Seconds from Now..."

These stories are good for sharing any day, but they must be shared today, in honor of The Purple One's passing.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with filmmaker Sean Wang about his new coming-of-age movie Didi, which was inspired by his own experiences growing up in an immigrant household in the Bay Area.

How do we understand Blue in the 21st century? Can we think of Mitchell's 1971 album, long considered the apex of confessional songwriting, as a paradigm not of raw emotion, but of care and craft?

The married British duo Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt — aka Everything but the Girl — have their first album in 24 years. Ken Tucker reviews Fuse, then we listen back to a 2018 interview with Thorn.