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Van Der Beek played Dawson Leery on the hit show Dawson's Creek. He announced his colon cancer diagnosis in 2024.

The shortest month of the year is packed with highly anticipated new releases, including books from Michael Pollan, Tayari Jones and the late Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa.

More than a thousand people signed up for auditions in hopes of becoming an extra in the upcoming opera of "The Handmaid's Tale" in Detroit.

The Declaration of Independence states that all men have certain "unalienable rights." From Mark Twain to Jon Stewart, satirists have picked apart that guarantee and what politicians do to honor it.

A group of Latino high school students in Chicago didn't feel represented by a local museum. They successfully petitioned the museum, resulting in a new exhibit reflecting local Latino history.

Dorothy Roberts' parents, a white anthropologist and a Black woman from Jamaica, spent years interviewing interracial couples in Chicago. Her memoir draws from their records.

NPR's Rachel Treisman took a pause from watching figure skaters break records to see speed skaters break records. Plus, the surreal experience of watching backflip artist Ilia Malinin.

If you consider yourself a baker and you celebrate Mardi Gras, making a king cake is a rite of passage.

Nike's battery-powered footwear system, which propels wearers forward, is part of a broader push to help humans move farther and faster.

Curators and museum leadership typically form and select exhibits. It was high school students though that helped change an exhibit about Latino culture in Chicago. Aqui en Chicago is now open.