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Morning Edition host A Martínez asks writer/director James Gunn, the man behind the reimagining of the entire DC Comics universe for the screen, about his vision for Superman.

The award-winning photographer tells the stories behind the profoundly moving images in her new book, Of Love & War — and confesses that she still gets nervous before a new assignment.

In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited.

Georgia hasn’t expanded Medicaid. Some people suffer more than others because of that coverage gap.

KPR is taking a tour across our listening area, and we're starting with Emporia! Join KPR staff on the first stop of our 70th Summer Tour at Radius Brewing Co. for a night of refreshments and live music as we celebrate our members and listeners.

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ancestry.com's World Memory Project allows people to sift online through hundreds of thousands of documents that previously required a painstaking manual search.

(Photo by Burke Griggs)Imagine our Native American ancestors, huddled together, taking shelter in a cave during a ferocious thunderstorm. Scenes like this were likely played-out countless times here on the plains -- years before this place was even called Kansas. As Commentator Rex Buchanan tells us, these Indian ancestors left behind evidence of their existence -- clues carved in stone.00000184-7fa7-d6f8-a1cf-7fa73a2e0000 Writer, banjo-player and KPR Commentator Rex Buchanan, who also serves as the Interim Director of the Kansas Geological Survey at KUCommentator Rex Buchanan is the Interim Director of the Kansas Geological Survey at the University of Kansas. He's also a regular contributor to Kansas Public Radio's Morning Edition. You can check out pictures of Kansas petroglyphs on the KPR website -- kpr.ku.edu. Production assistance for this commentary was provided by KPR news intern Dana McCoy.FUN FACTOID: In his office at the Kansas Geological Survey, Rex has a collection of canned meat products from around the world. We know...it's weird.

It’s time again for My Farm Roots, a series from Harvest Public Media in which we hear Americans’ stories and memories of rural life. Because when you hail from farm country, roots run deep.About 20 years ago, Becky Doyle had a big surprise come her way. The governor of Illinois tapped her to run the state’s Department of Agriculture. Up until then, she and her husband had been running a hog and grain farm. But at age 37, she took over the ag department, though she never really left the farm.Pictured at Top: Doyle sits on the patio outside the hog and grain farm she and her husband run in central Illinois. (Bill Wheelhouse/Harvest Public Media)As secretary of agriculture, Becky Doyle and Gov. Jim Edgar, center, ride through the 1991 Illinois State Fair. (Courtesy State Journal-Register)Harvest Public Media is a collaboration of public media stations across the Midwest. To hear more My Farm Roots stories – or to share your own – visit HarvestPublicMedia.org.

Cameron Yaste, the commander of a Navy destroyer in the Middle East, has been relieved of duty about four months after he was seen in a photo firing a rifle with a scope mounted backward.