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AMERICAN MOSAIC - An Explosion of Color at the National Cathedral Flower Mart; Sheep and Wool Celebrated at Maryland Festival JUNE SIMMS: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im June Simms. This week on our program we visit two
Remembering Writer Gore Vidal; New Findings on Hindu Success in America; Funnyman Stephen Colberts Music Festival JUNE SIMMS: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm June Simms. This week, we look at plans for a just announced
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
By Greg Flakus Houston 26 January 2006 This week thousands of movie directors, writers, actors and Hollywood executives are huddled together in the ski resort town of Park City, Utah attending two ind
By Greg Flakus Houston 26 January 2006 This week thousands of movie directors, writers, actors and Hollywood executives are huddled together in the ski resort town of Park City, Utah attending two ind
By Kari Barber Dakar 09 January 2007 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has called for the Guinea-Bissau government to take control of a recent burst of violence in a country historically rocked by coups. The murder of a former navy chief last week
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 23 March 2006 At least three aid agencies received letters from the Eritrean government this week directing the agencies to terminate their work in the country. The letters c
PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910: Anti-Slavery Activist Wrote 'Battle Hymn of the Republic' RAY FREEMAN: I'm Ray Freeman. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And I'm Shirley Griffith with the Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Every week we tell
By Leta Hong Fincher Washington, DC 27 February 2007 watch Genealogy report Strom Thurmond and Al Sharpton A new genealogical study shows that a prominent African-American civil rights activist is descended from a slave owned in the mid-nineteenth c
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 Phuong Tran Dakar 23 May 2007 The first international human rights film festival to take place in Bangui, Central African Republic, has ended. During the week-long festival, about 15,000 people saw 10 films. Festival organizers say they were under
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 28 January 2007 Palestinian militants from Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades kidnap Fayyad al Arba, a local Hamas leader, center, in the West Bank town of Nablus, 28 Jan 2007 Rival Palestinian factions have clashed in the Gaza Str
By VOA News 24 January 2007 watch speech excerpt on African Health Dikembe Mutombo during the president's State of the Union address President Bush highlighted U.S. health initiatives in Africa during his State of the Union speech late Tuesday. The
By Jim Malone Washington 23 June 2006 Political activists, frustrated by the polarized nature of American politics, have decided to do something about it in time for the next U.S. presidential election in 2008. --------------- Unity08.com screenshot
By Margaret Besheer United Nations 17 June 2008 Human rights activists are urging the U.N. Security Council to turn up the pressure on the Sudanese government and quickly complete the deployment of 26,000 U.N. peacekeepers to Sudan's war-torn Darfur
U.S. pharmaceutical giant Merck announced on Monday that it plans to acquire rival company Schering-Plough in a deal worth $41.1 billion. This could help Merck expand its market overseas at a critical time for mega pharmaceutical companies. Merck Co
By Nico Colombant Abidjan 15 June 2006 Human rights activists are giving mixed reviews to a decision by Britain to jail Charles Taylor if Liberia's former president is convicted for his role during Sierra Leone's civil war. The decision paves the wa
By Phuong Tran Dakar 13 April 2007 A change in U.S. visa policy is giving citizens in the West African nation of Burkina Faso a chance to make more frequent trips to the United States. Businessmen and others who travel often to the United States can
By Ernest Leong Washington, DC 12 January 2006 watch MLKing Profile report Martin Luther King, Jr., a Southern black minister and civil rights leader, crusaded for equality through nonviolent means. H
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 02 February 2007 At least 15 Palestinians were killed Friday in escalating clashes between the ruling Islamic militant group Hamas and rival Fatah faction in the Gaza Strip. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem burea