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  • Nkomo Morris, a teacher at Brooklyn's Art and Media High School, stays in touch with current and former students through social media.
    Tell Us More: Twitter Education Forum
    Join Tell Me More's education conversation on Twitter today, using #npredchat.
  • William Julius Wilson: Ending Poverty Is Possible
    The Census Bureau announced that 15 percent of Americans lived in poverty in 2011 — a slight drop from the year before. But income disparities continue to grow. Host Michel Martin talks with Harvard professor William Julius Wilson, author of the 1987 book The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy.
  • Understanding Muslim Anger Over 'Insulting' Film
    Protests over a video insulting the Prophet Mohammad have spread throughout the Muslim world. Host Michel Martin discusses reactions and why it has elicited such anger with Al Jazeera's Abderrahim Foukara and Georgetown University Professor John Esposito. Advisory: This segment may be uncomfortable for some listeners.
  • Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke arrives for a dinner at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium on Thursday.
    Federal Reserve Announces New Round Of Economic Stimulus
    The Federal Reserve said it would buy $40 billion a month on bond purchases to stimulate the economy.
  • Small business center to open in St. John
    The Small Business Administration, Louisiana Department of Economic Development and the Louisiana Small Business Development Centers will open a business…
  • Coast Guard searches for missing kayaker in Gulf
    The Coast Guard is searching for a missing kayaker in a more than 600-square-mile area of the Gulf of Mexico near Grand Isle.Eric Richards, 32, went…
  • Utilities Commission to conduct outages hearing
    The state's public utilities commission has decided to conduct an investigative hearing on the power outages that plagued Louisiana for days after…
  • Patrick Karabaranga, a warden at the Virunga National Park, plays with an orphaned mountain gorilla at the park headquarters in Rumangabo, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on July 17. The Virunga park is home to about 200 mountain gorillas, approximately a quarter of the world's population.
    Gorillas And Guerrillas Share The Troubled Congo
    Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo is home to 200 endangered mountain gorillas, about a quarter of the world's total. In recent months, a new insurgent group has taken over gorilla habitat. Despite it all, the gorilla population has been rising.
  • T-shirt, wristband sales will fund aid for Tulane football player
    Tulane University says two of its seniors have designed a T-shirt and wristband bearing the name and jersey number of Green Wave football player Devon…
  • Security guards were deployed outside the graffiti-covered walls of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt, which came under attack Tuesday.
    Welcome To The New Middle East?
    The violent protests at U.S. embassies this week seemed to catch the new Middle East governments flat-footed. So are these attacks an aberration on the rocky road of nation building, or a harbinger of a region moving toward greater chaos?
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