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"HBCUs are resilient institutions that will persist through all forms of adversity," the Congressional Bipartisan HBCU Caucus said after bomb threats earlier this month.

The introduction of sound to movies left audiences hungry for "talkies" and paved the way for the early operettas of German-born Jewish film director Ernst Lubitsch. Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews a new DVD collection of Lubitsch's early works.

The program's staff explores the streets and communities of Columbia, S.C. Hear sounds from the local Martin Luther King Jr. celebration.

Cloverfield, a new monster movie set in New York and filmed almost entirely on hand-held camcorders, is produced by J.J. Abrams, the man behind the hit TV show Lost.

The court's action came on an emergency appeal from Alabama, which challenged a decision by a three-judge federal court panel that included two Trump appointees.

On HBO's The Wire, actor Michael K. Williams plays Omar Little, a stick-up guy who robs only drug dealers. Omar has a scar running down his face. That's not a prosthetic scar; it's real. Williams tells Terry Gross the story behind his scar — and lots of other stories about himself and Omar.

The unorthodox New York comedy group "Improv Everywhere" pulls pranks in public places. This Saturday, the idea is to "dance off with your pants off!" Member Alan Corey reveals almost all.

FBI agents track a serial killer who uses technology as his assassin's hood in Untraceable. The media and a voyeuristic public catch some blame in the gory deaths, but the result is less commentary and more "torture porn,' akin to the Saw films.

Czech-born U.S. filmmaker Milos Forman is an Academy Award winning director whose cinematic successes include One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus. The Museum of Modern Art in New York is running a retrospective of his films.

Transportation authorities in London ban subway ads for an exhibit at the Royal Academy of Arts, calling them "overtly sexual." The posters feature a 16th century painting of Venus wearing nothing but a sheer veil.