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Rosie Grant dug into the culinary prowess of dead people, but without any actual physical digging. It turns out some people have favorite recipes inscribed on their gravestones when they die. SOU archeologist Chelsea Rose interviews her.

A new book by Ginette DePreist - “Reach Up: My Beautiful Journey with James DePreist” - describes her late husband's key role in the growth and development of the Oregon Symphony. JPR's Vanessa Finney recently visited Ginette at her apartment in Portland and had a conversation about the book, and James' musical legacy.

Interview with Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri

New advertisements from Target depict Santa Claus as fit and ruggedly handsome. We explore the many faces of Santa Claus with Christmas historian Bruce Forbes.

A police officer defended the Capitol from violent rioters on Jan. 6. With President-elect Donald Trump poised to pardon the rioters, he now asks, "what did I risk my life for?"

A new dinosaur has been discovered in Utah by North Carolina researchers and paleontologists. They believe it was a burrowing species.

Responders are working to recover the victims of Wednesday night's midair collision over Washington, D.C. It could be the deadliest crash to occur in U.S. airspace in at least 15 years.

Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King's wedding dress, to present day cobalt mining. Her new book is Black in Blues.

As Oregon mourns the recent passing of Portland’s iconic drag queen Darcelle XV, also known as Walter W. Cole, the Exchange remembers Darcelle with a…

Since their founding in 1990, African American Read-Ins have become a Black History Month tradition at school and community gatherings nationwide.