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Critics of the Bush administration see the government's policy towards Sudan shifting to appeasement in the face of genocide in Darfur. The altered tone may be the result of cooperation on the war on terror.

Carl Lumbly is a veteran actor of both stage and screen, but there's adventure and action in his latest work. NPR's Tony Cox talks with Lumbly about his role as Agent Marcus Dixon on ABC's spy action drama Alias, as well as the challenges he's faced as an African-American actor.

On May 31, 1921, as many as 300 blacks were killed and thousands more driven from their homes in a race riot in a thriving black neighborhood of Tulsa, Okla. Now, more than 80 years later, a group is hoping the U.S. Supreme Court will take up their case for reparations.

New trade rules lifting quotas on garment exports are having an impact for many countries. One such country is the tiny African nation of Lesotho, where six factories have closed and some 6,000 workers have lost their jobs.

The death of a 3-year-old Virginia boy killed by a rock dislodged in a strip-mining operation has prompted the state to approve new coal-mining regulations.

In Mexico's Sierra Madre range, the religious drama of Easter has been refashioned by indigenous groups into an expression of cultural solidarity, replete with barrels of corn beer called tesguino.

Of the South's newly thriving cities, few have risen from the ashes of economic and political crisis as quickly as Atlanta — due in large part to its mayor, Shirley Franklin. She is not only the first woman ever to hold that office in Atlanta, but also the first African-American woman to run a large city south of the Mason-Dixon line.

Germany unveils a memorial in central Berlin to the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust. Politicians, Jewish leaders and Holocaust survivors were on hand for the solemn ceremony to inaugurate the monument designed by American architect Peter Eisenman. The opening ends 17 years of debate over how Germany should mark the darkest chapter of its past.

A year ago, Bill Cosby set off a national debate in a speech to the NAACP where he criticized poor blacks in sometimes harsh language. Cosby emphasized personal responsibility, or the lack of it. In a new book, Michael Eric Dyson describes Cosby's remarks as a vicious attack on the most vulnerable among us.

A look at the records of the two conservative judges -- Priscilla Owen and Janice Rogers Brown -- whose re-nominations may trigger a Senate showdown over judicial filibusters.