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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin discusses racial tensions in the city post-Katrina after Latino workers flocked to the city for the cleanup and rebuilding process. He says he expects New Orleans to remain majority African-American, but that it will have to adjust to shifting racial demographics.

Youth Radio commentator Drew Harshaw recently spent two weeks in the West African nation of Ghana. He explains why it took being away from his home to appreciate what home had to offer.

President George Bush joined Russian President Vladimir Putin and other world leaders in Red Square Monday morning to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. Don Gonyea discusses the ceremonies.

Alex Chadwick talks with Phillip Carter of Slate about the recent Pentagon announcement of military base closures around the country. Carter argues that closing the selected bases could undermine homeland security and diminish support for the military in affected communities.

Former Marine Capt. Brian Steidle has been in the Darfur region of Western Sudan monitoring the humanitarian crisis there for the African Union. Steidle says there's no doubt that Sudan is in the midst of genocide.

In the wake of the media frenzy over the "runaway bride" saga, Allison Keyes reports on the story of Tamika Huston, the African-American woman who's been missing from her home in South Carolina for the past year. Is race an issue in how each case was handled?

On June 12, 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers was shot dead in the driveway of his Mississippi home. The assassination made Evers the first in a line of civil rights leaders to be cut down in the 1960s, and his murder prompted President Kennedy to ask Congress for a civil rights bill, which was signed into law by President Johnson the next year.

In 1964, three civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Miss., were found dead. Today, after more than 40 years, the man accused of coordinating the attacks, Edgar Ray Killen, goes on trial for murder.

A small group of African American re-enactors in South Carolina bring the history of slavery to life, playing slaves on the Brattonsville Plantation. Karen Grigsby Bates talks with one woman about the psychological toll -- and unexpected rewards -- of playing a slave.

Relief food supplies begin to arrive in the West African nation of Niger, months after calls for help first went out. The United Nations says it will feed 2.5 million people, but food shortages are grave throughout the Sahara desert region.