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Time again for StoryCorps, traveling the country recording your stories. Last week, we heard remembrances of the Great Depression. Today, we revisit that time with sisters Evelyn Palmour and Doreene McCoy. They were just children when the Depression
By Tom Rivers London 17 January 2007 The producers of Celebrity Big Brother , Britain's latest reality television show, are facing claims that they are allowing racial slurs directed at one of the program's participants to be broadcast unchecked. For
By Greg Flakus Houston, Texas 13 April 2007 Watch Children's Choir report A little taste of Africa came to the city of Houston, Texas, recently in the form of 24 children singing and dancing together as part of the African Children's Choir, a non-pr
Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, President-elect Barack Obama's nominee to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, said if confirmed by the Senate he will work to make health care more affordable for more Americans. Health care ref
President-elect Barack Obama's choice to be labor secretary, Congresswoman Hilda Solis says if confirmed she will work to promote fair wages and workplace safety. Her comments came at a Senate confirmation hearing Friday. Labor Secretary-designate,
President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for energy secretary, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu, said if confirmed he will pursue policies to address climate change and reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil. Energy Sec.-designate Steven Chu te
President-elect Barack Obama's nominee to head the Veterans Affairs Department says, if confirmed, he will work to streamline the agency to better respond to the needs of U.S. troops returning home from war. Retired Army General Eric Shinseki, who h
U.S. President Barack Obama welcomes Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the White House Tuesday, during the first state visit of his presidency. Paula Wolfson | Washington 24 November 2009 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India delivers his wel
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 13 July 2006 Students take a class in the shadow of trees after militants burn their school, July 10, 2006 Afghan extremists have attacked hundreds of teachers, students, and schools in recent months, leaving thousands of
By Efam Dovi Accra 06 November 2006 Africa population experts meeting in Ghana say it is unacceptable that large numbers of women on the continent continue to die from complications of pregnancy and child birth, in an era of unprecedented wealth and