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LGBTQ flags fly in London's Hyde Park on July 24, 2021.

GLAAD gives social media giants poor grades over lack of protections for LGBTQ users

In a new report, GLAAD found that 84% of LGBTQ adults said not enough protections are on social media to prevent discrimination, harassment or disinformation.

Supporters of a ballot measure to legalize abortion in Michigan gathered on Monday, after submitting hundreds of thousands of signatures to qualify for the November ballot.

In Michigan, the future of abortion rights could soon be up to voters

Abortion rights advocates in Michigan are hoping a wave of newly-motivated activists will turn out this year to override an abortion ban and put broad reproductive rights in the state constitution.

<em>Vision divine du 11 Mars 1948</em>, is a series of eight drawings by Ivoirian artist Frédéric Bruly Bouabré. They depict a vision that Bouabré said he experienced that year: "seven colored suns" creating a "circle of beauty around their 'mother-sun.' " This piece and other works from Bouabré are part of an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art.

A vision of 7 suns led a self-taught Ivoirian artist to draw the everyday and the holy

The Museum of Modern Art shows the colorful works of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, a prolific artist from the Ivory Coast who documented his Bété culture — and even created a pictograph language.

Hansika Daggolu, an incoming junior at Mission San Jose High School, poses in San Francisco, Tuesday, June 28, 2022. Middle and high school students in California will be able to sleep a little bit later when the new school year starts.

California late start law aims to make school less of a yawn

A first-in-the-nation law that goes into effect for the 2022-23 school year says high schools can’t start before 8:30 a.m.

A woman takes a photo of Andy Warhol's 'Shot Sage Blue Marilyn' on April 29 during Christie's 20th and 21st Century Art press preview in New York City.

Art values are booming as New York auctions make billions of dollars in sales

Sotheby's, Christie's and Phillips total sales have hit more than $2.5 billion for 2022 already, led by works by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Pablo Picasso.

"Above everything, every word, every concept still [happens] in our bodies, right?" Silvana Estrada tells NPR. "I'm a body that can create sounds like every other body."

Silvana Estrada wants you to find the song in your soul

The Mexican singer-songwriter employs her subversive brujeria to transcend experience on Marchita.

Google has expanded its policies to make it easier for people to request personal contact information be removed from online search results.

You can now ask Google to take your personal data out of its search results

Anyone who doesn't want their phone number, email or street address to be found online can ask Google to omit the data from its search results.

Slava, a stray dog sits in a kennel in Poland's border with Ukraine. Slava was saved by volunteers including Dr. Gary Weitzman, the president of the San Diego Humane Society.

San Diego nonprofit helps pets in Ukraine

The president of the San Diego Humane Society just got back from a trip to the border with Poland and Ukraine.

White flags are seen in September 2021 near the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., as part of a project to memorialize the lives lost to COVID-19 in the United States. Advocates are seeking an enduring memorial.

As U.S. COVID deaths near 1 million, advocates press for a memorial day

Millions of people in the U.S. have lost someone they love to COVID-19, and advocates hope to have those losses marked each year on the first Monday in March.

Eli Rosenbaum on how prosecuting war crimes in Ukraine compares to hunting Nazis

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Department of Justice official Eli Rosenbaum on his investigation into war crimes that occurred in Ukraine.

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