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Tennis great Roger Federer won 20 grand slam titles -- and at 41, he announced his retirement. NPR's A Martinez talks to the co-directors of the documentary "Twelve Final Days" about Roger Federer.

The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is emerging from a four-year metamorphosis. Eighty-two copies of Shakespeare’s “First Folio” will be together on public display for the first time.

Absolute Equality, the art exhibit founded by Reginald Adams, is doing artwork around the country in honor of Juneteenth. This year, exhibits are going up in Denver, Atlanta and L.A.

On this week's "My Unsung Hero" from Hidden Brain, Lorrie Paul honors the stranger who put their hand on her back when she was crying in the hallway of a hospital, some 25 years ago.

The group Just Stop Oil took credit for the Wednesday afternoon action, which they said was a call on the United Kingdom to stop the use of fossil fuels by 2030.

Archaeologists unearthed 35 bottles of cherries from the cellar of George Washington's Mount Vernon. The 250-year-old fruits, many still intact, can shed new light on those who lived and worked there.

You'd think the sign in front of dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov's arts center would have his name in lights — but actually, you can barely see it. He says what happens inside is way more important.

Ma brings his 18th century cello — aka "Petunia" — to the Fresh Air studio for music and conversation. Dunne revisits his Hollywood childhood in The Friday Afternoon Club.

Though the composer and singer-songwriter wasn't raised in Los Angeles, The Ambassador feels like a musical tour of the city, right down to specific addresses used as song titles.

A new Venezuelan film explores racism and homophobia through the experiences of 9-year-old Junior, who drives his mother up a wall in a quest to straighten his thick, curly "pelo malo," or "bad hair."