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Mavis Staples -- singer, actor and civil rights activist -- has a' new album 'One True Vine,' available on June 25.

This Google Doodle celebrates Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen), who would have been 85 this week.

A track from Baba Brinkman's album The Rap Guide to Evolution, sponsored by the Wellcome Trust. Also rapping and breaking: Charles Darwin, Sarah Palin, and Richard Dawkins.

Lewis Black will gladly give up all of his private information, just so long as the future contains robotic beer butlers.

Richie Havens (1941-2013) opens the Woodstock concert in 1969 with the song 'Freedom.' Havens was an influential musical and political figure for more than 30 years.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band with John Fogerty perform Fortunate Son at Madison Square Garden, 25th anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert (2009).

True, amazing and inspirational story of a group of children from a Paraguayan slum who play instruments made entirely of garbage.

Academy Award-winning documentary filmaker Alex Gibney details the creation of Julian Assange's controversial website WikiLeaks, which facilitated the largest security breach in U.S. history.

Michele Bachmann announces her retirement in a web video recorded at the Sears portrait studio.

A new exhibition at the British Museum features sculptures made up to 40,000 years ago. Dr. Alice Roberts meets curator Jill Cook to discuss three artefacts in the collection; the Lion Man, a group of female figurines from Siberia, and the oldest known flute. Despite being made thousands of years ago, the objects show that the minds of their creators - our ancestors - were incredibly similar to our own.