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Author Mel Watkins talks about his new book that chronicles the life of the first African American movie star, Lincoln Perry, a.k.a. Stepin Fetchit, and how he became an American pop culture icon.

April is famously the cruelest month — according to the poem — but it's also the month we celebrate poetry. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith says we all need poetry, and even those of us who don't write poems can still learn how to see and hear the world through poetry.

"A library can be a loud place," says a city official in charge of Moscow's 400-plus public libraries, which have begun attracting visitors with coffee shops, theater rehearsals and lectures.

If Dave Isay has learned one thing from editing his new book of StoryCorps conversations it's this: "No one should ever, ever give up hope on love," he says. "It seems like it's not in the cards for people, and then it just sneaks up behind you."

At CinemaCon, a yearly convention for movie theater industry leaders, cinema owners say they're experimenting with events to bring in customers.

Just Stop Oil has been in the spotlight after its demonstration in which protesters threw soup at a Van Gogh painting. The coalition is demanding an end to new fossil fuel production in the U.K.

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: TikTok Pride and Prejudice, K-pop star G-Dragon, a Disney cover album, and Astro Bot on the PS5.

Teju Cole's latest book describes a young New York doctor's visit back to his Nigerian hometown, where he encounters a Clockwork Orange world of misery and corruption.

Paradise Now, a new film by Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad, looks at the lives of two young suicide bombers. Howie Movshovitz of Colorado Public Radioreports.

The U.K. progressive rock band Yes is celebrating 35 years together. Members have come and gone and come again, but the band has a signature sound, full of time changes, electronic keyboards and a tight mix of guitar bass and drums. Music writer Tom Terrell says the white band from Britain had a strange attraction for black kids — like him — from New Jersey.