On this website you can read and hear interviews with Frances Perkins which cover her advocacy to give governmental protection to the working class. The interviews were conducted as part of Columbia University's Oral History project.

Archival audio version of King's "I Have a Dream" speech, with transcripts available in multiple languages.

Marcus Garvey was a riveting figure in African American politics in the 1920s. Read about his ideas and disappointments before listening to one of his speeches in which he explained the mission of the Universal Negro Improvement...

Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Adam Riess discusses the mysterious force known as dark energy in this audio recording. Learn how he believes this dark energy is accelerating the expansion of the universe. [22:36]

Stony Brook University archaeologist Elizabeth Stone describes her recent trip to Iraq.

One of the casualties of Hurricane Sandy was the death of thousands of lab mice due to flooding at New York University. What impact on important scientific research will this have? For example, mice are critical in brain research. Aired...

Researchers report that they've found a strain of bacteria that can swap arsenic for the element phosphorus in its metabolism -- even incorporating arsenic into its DNA.