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The Best Audio Stories, In Three Minutes Or Less

For the Third Coast Festival's short documentary category — with pieces no longer than three minutes — the theme was "appetite." Guest host Linda Wertheimer talks with Julie Shapiro of the Third Coast International Audio Festival.

Employment Specialist Louis Holliday, right, helps an applicant file for unemployment at a Georgia Department of Labor career center last month in Atlanta. The jobless rate for African-Americans fell from 13.7 to 12.6 percent in July, but that's still twice the rate for whites.

Jobless Rate Falls For Blacks, But It's Not Good News Yet

The labor market continues its recovery, and after a string of bad news, things would seem to be to turning around for African-American workers, too. They're finding more jobs, but at the lower end of the pay scale.

Farmhands at work in Tlaxcala, Mexico. The FDA said Saturday it would step up its surveillance of "green leafy products" from Mexico, after a rare parasite linked to a lettuce supplier there caused illness in more than 400 people in 16 U.S. states.

FDA: Infected Lettuce At U.S. Restaurants Traced To Mexico

The Food and Drug Administration says it will step up surveillance of "green leafy products" from Mexico in the wake of the multistate outbreak.

President Obama speaks about the George Zimmerman acquittal nearly a week after the ruling.

Obama Warms To Speaking Personally About Race

President Obama has always been reluctant to talk about the role of race in his life and in American society. Aside from one famous 2008 speech, he had largely avoided the subject. But events this summer have pushed the nation's first black president to open up. And some expect that dialogue to continue.

Marcus Miller performs at the 2013 Newport Jazz Festival.

NPR Music Presents The 2013 Newport Jazz Festival

Relive the festival with sets by Wayne Shorter, Gregory Porter, Mary Halvorson and more.

Jay Z Video Puts Hip-Hop And Art Back In The Same Room

Moments of exchange heat the video, change it from a document to a work of art, but the visual artists who stand in front of and with Jay (his co-stars) represent another conversation — one going on since the 1970s between hip-hop and the art world.

Robert Klein And The Golden Age Of Comedy

Host Jacki Lyden talks to comedian Robert Klein, the narrator of the documentary When Comedy Went to School, which opened this week in New York City.

Robert Dighton's 1805 full-length watercolor portrait, seen at right, is the singular extant image of the young George Bryan "Beau" Brummell. It was made during the height of Brummell's social and sartorial prominence within the aristocratic circles of early 19th-century Regency England.

Bespoke Suits And Perfect Cravats At 'Dandy' Exhibit

Dandies are much more than just Yankee Doodle, and an exhibit this summer at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum celebrates these men at the cutting edge of fashion and design — from Beau Brummell to Mark Twain and beyond.

William Masters originally hired Virginia Johnson, then a divorced mother of two, to help him conduct research interviews. They married in 1971.

Fresh Air Weekend: 'Masters Of Sex,' 'Blue Jasmine' And John Gallagher Jr.

William Masters and Virginia Johnson became famous for their studies of human sexuality. Blue Jasmine finds Woody Allen stuck in old ruts. Gallagher is a Tony Award-winning Broadway performer and plays a cable news producer in HBO's The Newsroom.

Regimental Combat Team 7 cases its flag during their mission's closing ceremony in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

Regimental Combat Team 7 Rolls Up Its Flag In Afghanistan

At peak deployment, 20,000 Marines were stationed in Helmand Province. Now there are only 8,000, and that number will drop further as Regimental Combat Team 7 heads home. Its commander says too many Afghans are dying in fighting there, but the local troops are still better than the Taliban.

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