For the past several years, classical music composers have gathered to share their more eclectic scores at the "Bang on a Can" festival in North Adams, Mass. Jeffrey Brown explores the origins of the event.

Margaret Warner interviews Diane McWhorter, who received a Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction for her book "Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama -- The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution."

Journalist and historian Craig Fehrman has written a book called “Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote.” He sits down with John Yang to discuss the long history of presidential writing, the...

In order to understand the history of media literacy we have to go all the way back to straight up literacy. In the first half of our look at the history of media literacy, Jay takes us all the way back to Ancient Greece and forward...

Learn about the newsies strike of 1899, when a band of courageous newsboys took on the most powerful newspaper owners in New York City.

At the end of the 19th century, two of the wealthiest media tycoons in the country tried to fatten their wallets by unfairly cutting into the newsies' already meager earnings, which led to the newsboys' strike of 1899. Here's the crazy...

American rapper Kendrick Lamar has made history by becoming the first hip hop musician to receive the prestigious Pultizer Prize for music for his acclaimed album Damn.



In making the award, the album was described as a ...

Kendrick Lamar has become the first ever rapper to win the Pulitzer Prize for music. The win for the Californian's third album DNA is a significant departure for the Pulitzer - which normally gives it's prize to classical or jazz records.

High schoolers at Kendrick Lamar's alma mater weigh in on his Pulitzer win

Guest host Mark Kelley talks to Eric Eyre, whose story about opioid addiction in West Virginia was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism this week. Watch The Investigators Saturdays at 9:30 pm ET and Sundays at 5:30 pm...

The celebrated American author Cormac McCarthy has died at his home in New Mexico. He was best known for the Pulitzer Prize winning post-apocalyptic novel, 'The Road' and 'No Country for Old Men'.

Michael R. Jackson is the creator of the Tony Award-winning musical 'A Strange Loop.' Now, the playwright is working on a new musical titled 'White Girl in Danger,' which makes its world premiere off-Broadway in the spring of 2023....

Elon Musk has fired back at bombshell drug abuse claims, mocking The New York Times and calling the report a "hit job." But insiders aren’t staying quiet — they allege Musk was on a cocktail of ketamine, ecstasy, and more during his...

Elon Musk has finally responded on camera after the New York Times published explosive allegations about his drug use while serving in the Trump administration. During a press interaction, Musk was asked point-blank on NYT's report....

Sam Shepard, the respected Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist and Oscar-nominated actor, has died. He was 73.

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FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus053496The Associated Press won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for documenting the use of slave labor in Southeast Asia to supply seafood to American tables _ an investigation that...

CLEAN : New York Times wins three Pulitzers

2016 Pulitzer prize winner Joby Warrick told AFP on Tuesday that battling the Islamic State group would take a lot longer than the simple destruction of the caliphate and said that the terror group had come to replace Al Qaeda as the...