The original Disciples of Beethoven Award honors the street musician who has touched so many hearts. For a half century of devotion to music. For a talent that knows no bounds. And for a story of ...

I was driving through Westlake, on my way to pay Nathaniel Anthony Ayers a visit at his nursing home, when it hit me. My God. Has it been 20 years? Hard to believe, but yes. The year was 2005. It was ...

William C. Ayers had originally been expecting a cozy crowd of about a dozen people to sit around a circle with him and talk about education and his books on urban schools. But the event here ...

The University of Wyoming cannot refuse to rent its property for a speech by the education scholar and former radical William Ayers, a federal judge in Casper, Wyo., ruled on Tuesday. The ruling, ...

Edward L. Ayers has been searching through his music collection for good, loud dance tunes that will appeal to anyone from 18 to 80. “It’s tough,” says Mr. Ayers, who’ll be called on to play something ...

Commentators on the political right have fueled much of the controversy over connections between Sen. Barack Obama and 1960s-radical-turned-education professor William C. Ayers. Key moments as the ...

Nathaniel Ayers and Yo-Yo Ma chat in a dressing room at Walt Disney Concert Hall in October 2006. (Francine Orr) I was driving through Westlake, on my way to pay Nathaniel Anthony Ayers a visit at his ...