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A group of writers has collected more than 800 fading landscape terms in a new book — Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape-- in hopes of keeping them from going extinct.

John Ridley's comic-book series The American Way has just been collected into a graphic novel; it takes place in 1961, when the government has created a team of super-heroes to battle foreign super-villains. But it's all just a show created to pacify the public. Ridley previously wrote the screenplay for Three Kings and the novel A Conversation with the Mann.

Many African-American leaders have lost touch with a hallmark of the civil rights movement — the tradition of self-empowerment, Juan Williams says. Instead, he says, they've embraced "victimhood."

Mexican-American singer Lila Downs brings a new social awareness to her repertoire of original and native Mesoamerican songs. She talks about her music and plays songs from her CD, Una Sangre.

More than 100 drawings by Leonardo da Vinci are on exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It's the first showing of its kind in the United States. NPR's David D'Arcy reports.

Andrew Roby is an American on vacation in Barcelona and was in the vicinity when a van drove into a crowd of people killing at least a dozen and injuring at least 50.

A new Pew Research Center study finds some big differences among respondents when it comes to connecting citizenship to language, faith and country of origin.

Legendary American Filmmaker, MARTIN SCORCESE. As part of a retrospective of his work by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, The Department of Cinema Studies at Tisch School of the Arts last week presented "An Evening With Martin Scorcese" a wide ranging question and answer session taped live before an audience at New York University. We play portions of this discussion, where Scorcese examines the art of cinema and his own body of work. For the next several months, the cable channel Cinemax is running "Martin Scorcese Presents", a collection of six of the director's favorite films, hosted and with an introduction by Scorcese.

American Roger D. Kornberg, whose father won a Nobel Prize a half-century ago, was awarded the prize in chemistry Wednesday for his studies of how cells take information from genes to produce proteins.

For more than 20 years, American Girl dolls and books have been big sellers. Now the series is going to the movies. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl opens this week in selected cities — and nationwide on July 2.