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Nearly 800,000 children under the age of 18 are reported missing each year in the United States, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). Of those reported missing, 33 percent are African-American. NCMEC Vide President Herb Jones discusses the racial disparity.

Lloyd Richards, one of the most respected directors and educators in American theater, died in Manhattan on his 87th birthday. Richards was the first African American to direct a Broadway play: A Raisin in the Sun.

A two-day conference at Spelman College in Atlanta examines the issue of leadership among women of color. Ed Gordon talks with Beverly Tatum, president of Spelman College, and Jane Smith, executive director of the college's Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement, about a recent survey on attitudes about women of color and their leadership abilities.

The personal papers and correspondence of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., have long been considered priceless. But this week, the King family and the Sotheby's auction house will start the bidding at $15 million.

After the trauma of Hurricane Katrina and the forced evacuation of most of its black residents, New Orleans holds municipal elections. Mayor Ray Nagin will face a May runoff vote against Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu.

South African musician Zola's work is featured in Tsotsi, this year's Oscar winner for best foreign film. He is the country's leading kwaito artist. The genre is a mixture of South African pop, house music and Western hip-hop. Zola talks about his music.

Wal-Mart shareholders are scheduled to meet Friday, and will likely encounter pressure from some religious groups, which hold shares in the nation's biggest retail chain, to adopt policies that address the pay gap between Wal-Mart executives and lower-level workers.

Atlanta area donors didn't want to see the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s papers go up for auction, so they raised enough money to bring the collection to the city's library for historically black colleges and universities. Many say King's papers will be at home in the city of his youth.

The votes are being counted after millions of Congolese voted in national elections on Sunday. It is the vast, impoverished nation's first democratic elections in 46 years. Joseph Kabila was considered the front-runner. But no candidate in the field is expected to win the majority needed to avoid a runoff.

Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) is defending himself against bribery allegations, and an unprecedented search of his Capitol Hill office has politicians from both parties crying foul. Ed Gordon discusses the historic impact of embattled lawmakers with Lanny Davis, former special counsel to President Bill Clinton and Colorado State Sen. Peter Groff, who heads the University of Denver Center for African-American Policy.