In March 1951, a dapper man sat before the Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce and attempted to explain to a handful of U.S. senators why exactly he could not ...

Steve Drummond is a senior editor and executive producer at NPR who has held a variety of roles in more than two decades at the network. Since its launch in 2014, he has headed the education reporting ...

Long before "The Godfather Part II" recreated the spectacle, millions of Americans tuned in to watch the real thing as the 1950's Kefauver hearings dragged boxing's mob-controlled underworld into the ...

In New York City 75 years ago this week, a very strange thing happened. For a few days, it seemed as if big parts of the city ground to a halt. Today, we'd call it a "viral moment." But in March of ...