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  • The Houston-based rapper's mindful words are like a life hack for anyone seeking guidance, with pleas to look past inherent hardships and evil and to stay focused on life's ultimate prizes.
  • Satellite imagery shows that Iran has given its launch pad a fresh coat of paint. It is another sign the nation will soon attempt to launch something into orbit.
  • On World Cafe's Sense Of Place trip to London, Ben invited host Talia Schlanger to check out Omeara, his 320-capacity venue near London Bridge.
  • The president says GM has moved major plants to China. But most of the cars made by the automaker in China are actually sold in the country, which is now the auto industry's largest market.
  • Photographer Ally Schmaling created a portrait series exploring queer and gender nonbinary identities. They say: "If there is not space for you, make space."
  • On this edition of Let Me Tell You 'Bout It, pianist Vijay Iyer talks about his new album and the importance of an artistic community.
  • Whether blaring to the stratosphere or holding back to fit a room, Jon Faddis' trumpet is always in conversation. Faddis is a personal hero to many aspiring trumpeters. Here, he performs at Jazz Standard in New York with his quartet and guest percussionists from West Africa.
  • Allyson keeps enormously busy on the road and in the studio. This summer and fall, she's in Portugal, Spain, Brazil, Europe, and Turkey, as well as all over the U.S. If you ask her where she started to put it all together, she'd surely say Kansas City. Here, she performs from the city's Repertory Theater with her band.
  • When trumpeter Dominick Farinacci pitched a Lee Morgan tribute to the programmers of the 29th Detroit Jazz Festival, they loved the idea. Outdoors in the sun, three top young horn men nail Morgan's going-too-fast-and-making-the-corners style, sometimes in harmony.
  • Ambrose Akinmusire says, "A lot of people think I'm an over-achiever, but I don't believe there's such a thing." With a warm yet assertive tone, the trumpeter leads a quintet at the KC Jazz Club in a concert recorded by JazzSet.
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