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How will the unrest of the last week affect attempts to redevelop West Baltimore? We ask James Hamlin, a small business owner blocks south from the burned…

In Baltimore City, there will be eight names on the circuit court judge ballot. Voters will be asked to pick six. How does a voter decide? Why do voters…

In our regular series Healthwatch, as many as 10,000 children in Baltimore City Schools have problems with their vision. Dr. Leana Wen joins to discuss…

Johns Hopkins announced last week an initiative to “build, hire, and buy” in Baltimore, particularly in the areas most affected by the violence following…

Fifty years ago last August, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. This morning historian Taylor Branch and legal scholar F.…

A new NBC comedy has a lot of 30 RockDNA, and it shows. While it's uneven at first, viewers who stick with it will get a satisfying blast of very silly jokes.

Navy veterans who served off the coast of Vietnam were long denied benefits for exposure to Agent Orange. A federal appeals court now has ruled that service at sea was the same as service on land.

Two men struggle to eke out a living in the Oregon Territory by stealing the milk of a wealthy landowner in writer-director Kelly Reichardt's film.

Decade after decade, political candidates come to an Ohio city to use its troubles as a backdrop. They assign blame for its job losses, and make promises for its future. So far, not much has changed.

Olszewski chides county council Republicans for voting against state of emergency.

Nostalgia tends to dominate our respective listening habits. This year saw the excavation of various titles from the annals of time.

Jones has been a pop star since 1965, when he released his first hit single, "It's Not Unusual." Since that time, he's remained a star overseas, while resurfacing periodically on the American pop charts. Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews his latest album, a collection of gospel, blues and soul covers called Praise and Blame.

A police officer, "blown away" by the size of a neighborhood party's slip-and-slide, persuades her partner to follow her down.

Also, T.V. critic David Bianculli reviews tonights "Frontline" about Lee Harvey Oswald.

Contrary to popular stereotypes, Asian-Americans don't achieve academic success just because it's just in their genes. These students perform well because of community resources and teacher support.

Michele Norris talks with Debbie Fisher and Maya Lee. In January 2005, Fisher participated in the StoryCorps oral-history project. She remembered her late father, a Holocaust survivor, and described the tattoo on her arm: a remembrance of another survivor of Auschwitz whose story moved her when she visited the Holocaust museum in Washington. That woman's daughter, Maya Lee, saw the story on the NPR Web site, and contacted her: they've been in close touch since June and Lee will be in New York to meet Fisher for the first time.

A common question faced by liberal arts majors and educators alike is how their education will serve them later in life. William Egginton, director of the…

Each winter the National Aquarium rehabilitates sea turtles that have been 'cold stunned.' Jennifer Dittmar, the Aquarium's Marine Animal Rescue Manager…

Many of us try to minimize our impact on the environment by buying local food and low-emission vehicles, but what about with our clothing choices? Your…

John and Curtis Bennett, Conservation Project Manager at the National Aquarium discuss urban conservation efforts.This episode originally aired in January…