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Usually around this time, Hollywood is talking about how to keep its box office momentum going. This year, January was so lackluster that studios had to jump-start moviegoing from scratch.

For the first time in history, all 10 acts on the "Billboard Top 10" are black. Nine of the 10 are rap acts, and the top spot is held by Pop/R&B songstress Beyonce and Dancehall Reggae star Sean Paul.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Jaime Nadal about the humanitarian effects of Russia's war on Ukraine. Nadal is the representative to Ukraine at the United Nations Population Fund.

According to a report published last year, black students in the UK performed better on national exams than was expected of them — yet very few Britons of African or Caribbean origin can be found at Oxford and Cambridge. Huw Evans of The Root analyzes the report's implications, and says that a sharp increase in tuition fees could make it even less likely for black students to attend British universities.

Hollywood exits 2009 on a high note, with both expensive blue aliens and artful war dramas having left a vivid impression on audiences and critics alike. And the year's $10.5 billion take at the box office is no sneeze-at number, either. Critic Bob Mondello looks back at the year in pictures.

No album in the history of the Billboard album chart has ever had a longer gap between stints at No. 1. Elsewhere, Christmas music dominates for one last week.

Commentator Daniel Pinkwater says Barack Obama has the advantage over Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, because Obama talks in public as if he were talking in private. She doesn't.

It was former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's first debate after spending more than $300 million on ads. He had an uneven performance, especially when it came to his record on women.

When film companies report their opening weekend box office figures, they often include what are called "previews." 'T'wasn't always thus.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Karim Sadjadpour, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's top nuclear scientist.