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Babe Ruth gave the home run its status as a potent weapon in the game of baseball, the author of a new biography says. "Before [he] came along, the home run was kind of a mistake...," Leigh Montville says.

Weekend Edition essayist Bonny Wolf suggests making a family recipe for Mother’s Day. She tells NPR's Liane Hansen the ingredients and instructions for gas company candy and her neighbor Bill’s mother’s war cake.

Kentucky's job strategy seems to be working. In the last year the state added 47,000 jobs, making it number two in the nation. With a hard-hat and shovel,…

A letter from our friends at the Cincy Blues Fest:Cincy Blues Fans: Our 21st year of the Cincy Blues Fest is coming up soon, and you are needed to make it…

A major court ruling Friday declares that Ohio may not ban early in-person voting on the three days just before election day itself. A federal appeals…

A city attorney said officials are working to aggressively enforce a tougher chronic nuisance ordinance Council approved last year. Mark Manning started…

The House has passed legislation that would make sweeping changes to voter registration, including requiring those signing up to present documents proving U.S. citizenship.

The House majority leader says he will step down from that post after a surprise loss. For more, host Michel Martin speaks with Republican strategist Ron Christie and Univision's Fernando Espuelas.

2: Playwright, poet, and performer LANE NISHIKAWA. His one-man show "I'm on a Mission from Buddha," is about some of culturally-based absurdities he's endured as a Japanese-American. NISHIKAWA said he put together the show of vignettes in order to answer, "all the nerdy, cliche-ridden, Asian-American images." His characters include a Japanese-American World War Two hero, and a Sushi-phobic redneck. "I'm on a Mission from Buddha," can also be seen on PBS. NISHIKAWA is the former Artistic Director of the Asian American Theatre Company in San Francisco and has taught creative writing in the Asian American Studies Dept at San Francisco State University. He's also appeared in the films, "Eat a Bowl of Tea," and "Living on Tokyo Time."

The mostly white country and folk music industries remain frustratingly difficult for Black musicians to enter. During one of Nashville's biggest events, one group envisioned a new pathway in.