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In 1831, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Va., that killed more than 50 white people. An independent film debuting on PBS examines The Confessions of Nat Turner, William Styron's controversial 1967 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Turner's alleged jailhouse statements and other versions of Turner's story. Pat Dowell reports.

Stellastar is a four-piece band from Brooklyn, N.Y., that makes music reminiscent of early U2 or Joy Division. The young band has released a debut CD, the eponymous Stellastar. Jim Fusilli has a review.

Updated federal guidance means many low-income families that want their children to keep learning remotely are losing access to a school program that helped them pay for meals.

Kirsten Dunst has been nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her portrayal. It's one of 12 nods that the film received.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet with key allies in Australia, Japan and India.

He's been compared to James Bond and Malcolm X, but his name has largely been left out of the history books.

After early reports that Rotterdam would briefly take apart a historic bridge for the yacht's passage, thousands of people joined a Facebook event called "Throwing eggs at superyacht Jeff Bezos."

The latest album from the Danish folk duo Harald Haugaard and Morten Hoirup is called Om Sommeren, or "In Summer." The CD underscores the distinctions that set Danish folk music apart from its Scandinavian cousins. Music critic Chris Nickson has a review.

In contrast to Annie Liebowitz's posed celebrity portraits, Charles Peterson gets the sweat, anger, and noise of the Seattle scene on film in his new book, Touch Me, I'm Sick. Marcie Sillman reports on the challenges of capturing performance in the static medium of photography.

Jack Paar, who pioneered late-night talk TV on The Tonight Show before telling his viewers farewell while he was still in his prime, died Tuesday. He was 85.