By Rosanne Skirble Washington 01 August 2007 Eleanor Holmes Norton Eleanor Holmes Norton is a third generation Washingtonian who says she was shaped by her hometown. My great-grandfather, Richard Holmes, was a run-away slave. Born in 1937, Norton gre...
....News. I'm Steve/ Inskeep, and I'm Rene/ Montagne. She turned course of the American history by refusing to move from her seat on a bus. Rosa Parks, the woman known as the mother of civil rights movement died at her home last night. She was 92.NPR...
By George Dwyer Washington 09 May 2007 A U.S. military commander has apologized for the killings of Afghan civilians by U.S. Marines in early March. Colonel John Nicholson told reporters in Afghanistan that he met Tuesday (May 8th) with the families...
Good evening, my fellow citizens: T his afternoon, following a series of threats and defiant statements, the presence of Alabama National Guardsmen was required on the University of Alabama to carry out the final and unequivocal order of the United...
By Andre de Nesnera Washington 11 September 2006 Five years ago, the United States was struck by the most devastating terrorist attack in its history. Subsequent investigations indicated that al-Qaida - a radical Islamic group led by Osama bin Laden...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 02 September 2006 Tens of thousands of Palestinian government employees, who have not been paid in months, went on strike Saturday. The labor unrest poses a major challenge to the Palestinian government, led by the Islamic...
By Greg Flakus New Orleans 25 August 2006 The American Society of Civil Engineers released a report in New Orleans Friday assessing problems with levees and pumping stations that led to the flooding of the city after Hurricane Katrina hit it a year...
By Nico Colombant Abidjan 05 May 2006 Members of Sudan Liberation Army, SLA, walk out of meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, Friday A top civil rights activist for Sudan's Darfur region is dubious about the ne...
By Bill Rodgers Washington. D.C. 29 March 2006 watch Civil War report A grieving widow touches her husband's coffin as it is carried to a cemetery The continuing sectarian violence in Iraq has raised...
By Mike Cooper Atlanta 31 January 2006 Coretta Scott King, the widow of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., has died. She had been in poor health since suffering a stroke last summer. Co...