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In southern Sudan this weekend, crowds mourned the burial of John Garang, the rebel leader-turned-Sudanese Vice President. Garang died earlier this past week in a helicopter crash, just 21 days after joining a government of national unity.

Scientists are unveiling an hourly earthquake forecast for California. The good news is that it's more likely to rain on any given day.

A Texas rapper sets his rhymes to country beats. Host Jennifer Ludden talks with singer Cowboy Troy about the hybrid music style he calls "hick-hop." Troy's new album is called Loco Motive.

NPR sent photographers across the country to document the stark differences between school districts right next to each other. This is what they saw.

Madeleine Brand speaks with Slate contributor Edward J. Epstein about Rupert Murdoch's plan to offer movies through in-home digital video recorders. Epstein believes Murdoch's plan, if successful, could lead to the end of the video and DVD rental business.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove's role in leaking the name of CIA operative, Valerie Plame remains undefined. Reports describe Rove as tacitly confirming her identity to a reporter before the story was published. A federal grand jury investigation is continuing.

With Black Entertainment Television's announcement that it will cancel its nightly news program in favor of a string of hourly news briefs, NPR's Allison Keyes examines concerns about the future of African-American news organizations.

NPR's Ed Gordon speaks with two veterans of the news media: Richard Prince, copy editor for The Washington Post and author of the online column "Prince's Journal-isms" for the Maynard Institute; and Elinor Ruth Tatum, editor-in-chief of The New York Amsterdam News, one of the leading black weekly newspapers in the United States.

As next year's mid-term elections approach, the Republican Party is trying to appeal to ever-larger numbers of African Americans. Party leaders believe many black voters side with them on values issues like the state of the family, homosexuality and abortion. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) talks about these and other issues in his new book It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good.

The Army may have met its recruiting target for July, but the year-to-date goals have not been met. The Army Reserve and the National Guard have also suffered shortfalls in their recruiting missions. Can the United States continue to rely on an all-volunteer army? Melissa Block talks with Laurence Korb, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.