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The founding publicity director of Def Jam Records, Bill Adler, amassed a highly valuable collection of music, writing and images.

Here's a story about grass-roots filmmaking with no eye toward a Hollywood deal. For his first full-length feature, Jay Craven convinced Michael J. Fox to work for free. And Craven screens his movies himself, driving from community centers to libraries to theaters throughout New England.

One of the biggest executives in hip-hop is indicted on money laundering charges by federal prosecutors in New York. Irving "Gotti" Lorenzo, founder of the music label Murder, Inc., and his brother Christopher, are suspected of being involved in a large drug ring.

When nearly two dozen gay men were arrested, put on trial, and eventually acquitted of sodomy in 1968, it demonstrated to the larger gay community that they could organize against police harassment.

A new book tells the story of what may be one of the most gruesome artifacts of the Nazi persecution of Jews -- a lampshade made from human skin.

The Pentagon's research agency, DARPA, played key roles in developing the Internet and GPS. Now it's investing money in high school hackerspaces, where students gather to come up with high-tech ideas — like a bicycle that generates electricity.

A new, free, searchable public database allows Holocaust survivors and their heirs to look for more than 20,000 artworks, furniture and other objects stolen by the Nazis in France and Belgium during World War II. It's the first such database to digitize and make available original German records and the subsequent French records of what happened to the objects and art.

Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 tells the story of the 1968 football meeting between the Ivy League archrivals. Filmmaker Kevin Rafferty's father was a former Yale football captain, but Rafferty chose to go to Harvard.

Chapter & Verse follows an African-American man struggling to carry on with his life after he's released from prison. Much of the story is based on filmmaker Jamal Joseph's own experience.

Last spring, 32 previously unknown paintings thought to be the work of Jackson Pollock were found. The foundation representing the artist's estate doubts their authenticity.