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According to a new report, historically black colleges and universities are attracting more Asian and Latino students than ever before. Host Michel Martin discusses that and other findings with the report's author, Marybeth Gasman, and Morgan State University President, David Wilson.

John B. King Jr. talks about his priorities for a tenure that may be short-lived: implementing the new education law, high-quality preschool and college access, to name a few.

"When I'm acting, I always imagine myself as looking totally different than the person that appears onscreen," Black says. The comedian writes about family, masculinity and vanity in his new memoir.

One of the most indispensable guitarists of all time, Carter was a quiet revolutionary. Though she didn't concern herself with celebrity or need to be the star, she deserves our deepest admiration.

For 30 years, the U.S. Department of Education has had the power to hold for-profit college executives personally liable when their schools defraud students. It simply hasn't used it.

Her meteoric rise in the last year has been due in part to her biggest supporter, South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn, the third ranking Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Some Republicans worry that if the scandal-plagued former governor were to win the primary, it would place a Senate seat considered to be safely GOP in jeopardy.

To control inflation during WWII, the U.S. government resorted to wide-ranging price controls. Their unintended consequences might explain why today's policymakers are reluctant to try it again.

San Quentin prison's university gets high marks. But few prisons in the nation are following the California model.

The royal family has decided to leave the 105-carat gem out of this weekend's coronation ceremony. The Kohinoor has become a focus of anti-colonial anger. India wants it back.