For musicians like Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer, trying to break down doors in the folk and country music scenes has been a long road. A festival in Durham this weekend aims to remedy that.

“My life was influenced most by my mother, Willie Elaine McAlpin, who’s here with me tonight, an eternal optimist who’s always leaving me messages, hoopin’ and hollerin’ sayin’, ‘Life’s just a bowl of ...

If you wanted to find the Vietnam War in American television shows, you mostly had to wait until it was long over.

On the eve of his New York retrial, the fallen mogul spends 23 hours a day alone in his cell, reading biographies and ...

In 1987, an arsonist burned down Tom Petty's family home while he was in it, but little did they know that it would inspired ...