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A jet aboard the USS Midway is pictured, April 23, 2015.

USS Midway Museum Teaches Lessons Of Vietnam War

The USS Midway was the longest-serving Navy aircraft carrier of the 20th Century. Now a museum on the San Diego Bay, the Midway is teaching visitors about it's role in the final days of the Vietnam War 40 years ago.

Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) always has a floor chart with her on the House floor to help her tally the number of days without passage of a jobs bill.

How Floor Charts Became Stars Of Congress

Watch C-SPAN long enough and you'll see members of Congress using big visual aids, known as floor charts. Many are about as sophisticated as those you'd see in grade school. Here are some of the best — and worst.

Two Prominent Museum Directors Encourage 'New Ways Of Thinking'

Host Michel Martin speaks with the directors of the National Museum of African Art and the National Museum of the American Indian. Both institutions are celebrating important anniversaries this year.

The Vegetables Most Americans Eat Are Drowning In Salt And Fat

Potatoes and tomatoes are nutritious and delicious. But the U.S. Department of Agriculture finds that Americans tend to consume way too many of them in unhealthy ways, like French fries and pizza.

Ja Rule at NPR's New York bureau in June.

Ja Rule: 'I Took It Upon Myself To Become A Man'

Ahead of a new memoir, the rapper talks "real world" parenting, systemic racism, rhyming along to Mary J. Blige and being a celebrity in prison.

Chris Colwell, director of emergency medicine at Denver Health, has treated victims from two of the deadliest mass shootings in the U.S. He says he's deeply disturbed by how easy it is to get guns.

Colorado Doctors Treating Gunshot Victims Differ On Gun Politics

Some Colorado doctors who've treated victims of recent mass shootings and everyday gun violence say they're deeply disturbed by and opposed to guns. But other doctors don't support the new gun restrictions lawmakers are talking about in Denver and Washington, D.C.

A chart showing the area in North America where the total lunar eclipse will be visible late Monday and early Tuesday.

Total Eclipse Of The Moon Next Week Throughout North America

The lunar eclipse peaks late Monday or early Tuesday, depending on your time zone. It begins a so-called tetrad of four eclipses occurring roughly six months apart.

Alain Locke is buried at the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. He lies near many of the nation's early congressmen and next to the first director of the Smithsonian's Museum of African Art.

Alain Locke, Whose Ashes Were Found In University Archives, Is Buried

The author and philosopher is widely known as the father of the Harlem Renaissance. But it is not widely known that Locke, who died 60 years ago, was never buried.

The National Hispanic University sits in the shadow of the East San Jose foothills in a working-class Latino neighborhood.

After Decades, A University By And For Latinos Will Shut Its Doors

National Hispanic University's founders wanted a bilingual, bicultural environment with smaller class sizes to serve first generation college students.

3-D renderings of four skeletons found buried near the altar of an early church in the Jamestown settlement in Virginia.

Bones In Church Ruins Likely The Remains Of Early Jamestown's Elite

Scientists say remains of four men exhumed from what was once an Anglican church suggest they were well-nourished, "high-status" leaders in the early 17th century colony. And one was likely Catholic.

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