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Two-time Oscar® nominee, six-time GRAMMY® winner and 2018 USA Fellow trumpeter/composer Terence Blanchard is joined by The E-Collective and Turtle Island Quartet. When he’s not wowing crowds around the world with his masterful jazz trumpet, Terence is scoring Spike Lee films including When the Levees Broke, Malcolm X, Da 5 Bloods and BlacKkKlansman. His opera Fire Shut Up in My Bones opened the Metropolitan Opera’s 2021-22 season. With his quintet The E-Collective, Terence released the albums Breathless, LIVE and 2021’s ABSENCE, a tribute to Wayne Shorter with neo-classical string ensemble Turtle Island Quartet.

While College athletics are on hold right now because of the coronavirus pandemic, some major decisions are still looming when it comes to paying college…

Called "buy-now, pay-later" loans, they essentially work the way they sound. Shoppers borrow money to buy goods then pay the loan back over time, often interest-free. Experts share risks and benefits.

The authors of a new book argue that efforts to raise achievement for students at the bottom have come at the expense of the most gifted and talented.

So many of us are more than ready to put 2020 into the rearview. In this year-in-review episode of Jazz United, we do just that, trying our best to make sense of it all.

WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with Indie Street Film Festival Director Jay Webb and Filmmaker Talia Lugacy

The Tiny Desk series producer shares his favorite records of the year.

Bad Bunny, who had the most-streamed album of both 2022 and 2023, seems to have another potential juggernaut on his hands. But to top the chart this week he had to hold off an unlikely challenger.

A Marine and his buddies joined the mob that entered the Capitol on Jan. 6. They were not the only Marines there. NPR asked the Corps' top officer a question: Do the Marines have an extremism problem?

All summer, a wide range of hits were in the running for the biggest songs of the season — country singalongs, rap diss tracks, pop kiss-offs and rock epics. But two took the race down to the wire.