The Respect for Marriage Act official repeals the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which restricted marriage to exclusively being between a man and woman. It was trumped by the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015, which established same-sex marriage as a 14th Amendment right.

May 30, 1963 marked the fifteenth birthday of my sister Nancy Gerson in Mexico City. As first generation born in Mexico my parents decided to have a quinceañera celebration of a girl's 15th birthday. It has pre-Columbian roots in Mexico (Aztecs) and is widely celebrated by girls throughout Latin A

A year in Music during a covid-19 pandemic around the world. Say goodbye to 2020 and welcome 2021 with hope and music and light and science and a better life.

There is something about the power of music that speaks to our souls. Watch the story about this power that made a news anchor cry.

Darren Criss transforms "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy" in his tribute to ASCAP Founders Award honoree Rod Stewart at the 2011 ASCAP Pop Music Awards in Los Angeles. ASCAP's hundreds of thousands of songwriter, composer and music publisher members all have one thing in common: they are driven to create. ASCA...

Watch the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope—the most powerful space telescope ever made. This mission is scheduled to lift off at 7:20 a.m. EST (12:20 UTC), Dec. 25, 2021, aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. With revolutionary technology, Webb will observe a pa

music minds See an expanded version of the film's sequence on Oliver Sacks's brain as it reacts to different pieces of music.

HAUSER performing River Flows In You by Yiruma in the stunning Krka Waterfalls, Croatia. Hauser's beautiful music could unite Humanity again, & restore fun, joy, happiness, love, peace, friendships & harmony among all of the various races. His music is Divine & healing.

The argument is overwhelming that there is a federal constitutional right to marry a person that you love. And 36 states have held that. Seventy percent of the American people now live in a state that has constitutional or statutory marriage equality. And the history of the Supreme Court is a histor

From humble beginnings in Cuba, Gloria Estefan came to America and broke through all barriers to become a crossover sensation at the very top of the pop music world. But just when she thought she had it all, she almost lost everything. You’re invited to step behind the music that made her an interna