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The imprisoned Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny has announced that he is ending his 24-day hunger strike.

Shock G, the frontman for the hip-hop group Digital Underground, died yesterday at 57. He was best known for the song "The Humpty Dance," and helped launch the career of Tupac Shakur.

De Shields is an actor, singer, choreographer, writer, musician, lyricist, a professor and an icon of style. He'll appear as King Lear at the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival this summer.

"I never want people to feel like fantasy and romance and magic and adventure belong to just one kind of person," the fantasy author says. A new Netflix series is adapted from her works.

There are more than 9,000 public libraries in the U.S., and Aaron Yang has been trying to win summer reading prizes from as many as he can. Not all librarians are happy about it.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Jesse Buckley about her lead role in the newest version of Romeo & Juliet, and about what it was like filming a stage production during COVID-19 protections.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to director Skye Fitzgerald about his Oscar-nominated documentary Hunger Ward, and the children who are starving to death during the civil war in Yemen.

Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks: Cretaceous Cliques; Bezos' Barbers, and Satellites with Slivers.

Stone Age stoners, super short stories, the case for curtains.

Play It Again, Sam... Play It On Your Casio Keyboard.