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Commentator Deborah Mathis looks at what role skin shade, and not just race, plays in prison sentencing. A new study shows darker-skinned African-Americans receive harsher sentences than their lighter-skinned counterparts. Deborah Mathis is a syndicated columnist and a professor at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

In honor of the 250th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birth, his music is being performed around the globe. A controversial new production of an unfinished opera Mozart wrote when he was 23, Zaide, has just opened in New York.

In the series, Christian Cooper will take viewers into the "wild, wonderful and unpredictable world of birds," according to National Geographic.

Liberal Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee defeats a challenge from conservative Steve Laffey in the Republican primary in a closely watched Senate races. In New York, Sen. Hillary Clinton trounces antiwar rival Jonathan Tasini, who unsuccessfully tried to replicate the David v. Goliath scenario in Connecticut.

Brazil, France and South Korea picked up just about where they left off four years ago. The defending champion Brazilians got a 44th-minute goal from Kaka to beat Croatia, 1-0. The French failed to score a goal in their fourth straight Cup match, earning a 0-0 draw with Switzerland. And South Korea won over Togo, 2-1.

Ed Gordon examines the lack of black Americans in the advertising industry, and how that affects success in marketing to black communities. Gordon talks with Allen Pugh, executive vice-president of the advertising agency Globalhue, and Ken Smikle, founder and president of Target Market News.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Ryan Busse about how he went from being a high-level gun industry executive to an outspoken critic of the National Rifle Association.

Beijing's hopes to developing a marine plan for fisheries holding police training fell short over some countries' concerns over increasing geopolitical tensions and threatening regional stability.

In North Carolina, key buildings at a 1940s-era segregated Marine base are being restored. The structures at Montford Point, now part of Camp Lejeune, were used by the first Black Marines.

The independent paper published the faces of the victims on Sunday in a powerful homage to the 21 lives lost.