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Experts say this kind of media campaign is unprecedented and paints a distorted picture of immigrants and crime

Guns have always loomed large in Black people's lives — going all the way back to the days of colonial slavery, explains reporter Alain Stephens from The Trace.

A 25-year-old Democrat from Murray wants the chance to unseat Kentucky’s 10-term Republican Congressman Ed Whitfield in the first district. Wesley Bolin…

Deborah Willis, a photographer and recent MacArthur Fellow takes Sharon on a tour of Reflections in Black. Willis is curator of the exhibit, a comprehensive collection of images by Black photographers from 1840 to the present. The collection of 300 pictures is on view at the Smithsonian and a companion book of over 600 photographs was published this year. Willis has spent more than 20 years archiving and presenting the work of photographers throughout the African diaspora.(Reflections In Black, A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present, Norton; 2000; ISBN: 0-393-04880-2)

Some say the financial markets continue to decline because the Federal Reserve decided to cut interest rates by just half a percent earlier this week. Commentator Lyle Gramley, who is a former member of the Federal Reserve Board, says Wall Street's decline is more about the slowdown in the economy. A previous Fed commentary aired yesterday. In that piece, Bert Ely said the Fed's interest rate cut was too little, too late, and that the Fed has a history of either under or overreacting.

David McCullough tells Steve Inskeep about his new book 1776. The book chronicles the battles George Washington's army fought to win independence for America from Britain.

The lifelong rocker with a history of leading New York City punk bands performs his new solo songs.

The UK National trust spent 1,300 hours carefully cleaning the piece of history by hand.

Before Tony Montana, there was Meyer Lansky. True-crime writer T.J. English recounts the history of a mob-ruled Havana before the 1959 revolution.

Bronze statues of fictional meth cookers Walter White and Jesse Pinkman occupy a place of honor in Albuquerque. New Mexico officials say they want to spotlight the booming entertainment industry.