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To understand why Liberians have had a hard time changing their funeral practices in the age of Ebola, first you must understand their tender and celebratory traditions.

From Afrika Bambaataa to Public Enemy and beyond, hip-hop has long been a culture to which young urban Muslims around the world can relate.

See what albums NPR listeners picked in our year-end poll for the best music of 2013.

The federal government will pay more than $1 billion to 41 American Indian tribes to settle a long-standing dispute. The tribes argue federal agencies mismanaged their assets and natural resources.

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In terms of pure expression, no singer in popular music can touch Williams when she's calling from the lonely outskirts of Despairville.

Anne Rice has just released the second book in her "Wolf Gift" series, The Wolves of Midwinter. It continues the story of a young San Francisco journalist bitten by a werewolf. Critic Alan Cheuse says that while the dialogue is stilted at times, he's enjoyed watching Rice create another world of "strangeness and transformations."

The songs were a byproduct of slavery in the U.S. But after being passed along by generations of African-American musicians, they were later embraced by a variety of improvisers, including Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Grant Green and John Coltrane.

Perhaps no company showed how the Internet could turn sharing into a global phenomenon more than Napster. The music-sharing site upended the record industry. But the industry ultimately survived and free-music Napster did not. What are new businesses doing to avoid the same fate?

Decades before Jackie Robinson broke American baseball's color line, an longstanding camaraderie between black and Japanese players would shape the future of baseball in Japan.