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The ranchera and bolero singer took aim at machismo as if it were a piñata. For decades, she wrote and sang feminist anthems full of pain, rage and empowerment.

The union representing the workers says the university refuses to negotiate certain pay scales and raised health care premiums during bargaining.

Monday, March 31, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. Get an intimate look at the trailblazing career and influential life of journalist, author, humorist, political activist, and proud Texan. Carpenter served as a key aide to Vice President Lyndon Johnson, chief of staff/press secretary for Lady Bird Johnson, and later as an inspirational leader for women’s equality.

National City’s public library is the only branch serving the city’s population of roughly 55,000 residents.

This week, a new fellowship was announced that granted 20 jazz musicians of retirement age a gift of $100,000 each.

MUSIC is the elusive rapper's first album in five years, but his presence has loomed heavy over hip-hop — and the fanbase whose ears he retuned for extremity.

Hours after President Trump tried to remove three board members, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting responds with a lawsuit arguing he does not have that authority.

A Turkish student living and studying lawfully in the U.S. was arrested by federal immigration officers. A lawyer explains to NPR some of the basic rights people have in such a situation.

Premieres Tuesday, March 25, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Explore the dramatic story of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990. The film focuses on the determined people who literally put their bodies on the line to pass the legislation that changed the lives of all Americans.

A top vaccine advisor at the FDA was forced to resign on Friday. In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks wrote "truth and transparency are not desired," by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.