Search results for

Why the steep decline in admissions at historically black colleges in California and elsewhere? And what's being done to turn the tide? NPR's Tavis Smiley discusses the issue with Linda Chavez, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, and Penda Hare, co-director of the Advancement Project.

NPR's Madeleine Brand talks to Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and The Washington Post senior editor Steve Coll about the future of the CIA after the agency's embattled director, George Tenet, abruptly announced his resignation. Tenet is expected to leave the post in mid-July.

A Senate intelligence committee report, set to be made public next week, calls for a major overhaul of U.S. intelligence efforts, panel member Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) says. Hagel confirms the CIA has received a copy of the report, but says he doesn't believe it played a part in George Tenet's decision to resign as the agency's director. Hagel speaks with NPR's Steve Inskeep.

Many believe issues pertaining to Iraq will overshadow concerns about Africa at the Group of Eight Summit meeting in coastal Georgia this week. But South African leader Thabo Mbeki and others say they plan to be heard anyway. NPR's Tavis Smiley talks to two guests who formerly served in high-level State Department positions: Chester Crocker, professor of strategic studies at Georgetown University and former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during the Reagan Administration. Also joining the conversation is Susan Rice, senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution and former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during the Clinton administration.

The U.S. Department of Labor announces the addition of nearly 250,000 new jobs in April, marking the ninth sucessive month of U.S. job growth. The Bush administration hails the numbers, but Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry calls the job growth too slow, and notes the nation's overall unemployment rate did not change. Both Democrats and Republicans are touting their rival plans for job growth as the election nears. Hear NPR's Jim Zarroli.

In the latest Politically Speaking column, Senior Washington Editor Ron Elving examines the largely positive coverage of former President Reagan in the wake of his death.

NPR's Mike Pesca reports on hearings before the Connecticut legislature Tuesday. Officials are considering whether Republican Gov. John Rowland should be impeached amid charges he traded political favors to construction contractors.

From the outset of his presidency, Ronald Reagan aimed to re-establish a conservative voice on the Supreme Court. He did so by promoting the bench's most conservative justice, William Rehnquist, to chief justice, and appointing leading conservative thinker Antonin Scalia to the court. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and NPR's Nina Totenberg.

Rapper Kidd Creole, who was a founding member of Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, was sentenced Wednesday to 16 years in prison for stabbing a homeless man to death on a New York City street.

NPR's Alex Chadwick speaks with Marketplace correspondent Tess Vigeland about the opening day in court in a case challenging Oracle's takeover bid for software company PeopleSoft.