Jan 5th, 2009 · A recent report on the rise of young black males being killed in the U.S. continues to raise concern among youth, parents and community leaders. Some say the findings reflect a much larger problem, the failure of society on many levels. A roundtable of people directly affected by violence share their perspective — Sylvia Banks, whose son Deon was killed in Detroit in 2003; Karen Graham whose son Aaron was killed in Milwaukee in 2004, and Ron Moten, of the D.C. group Peaceaholics.
Keywords: Violence · community · D.C · Society · Roundtable · Detroit · 2004 · 2003 · youth · male · Aaron · Milwaukee
Dec 23rd, 2008 · Dan Rather is pursuing a $70 million lawsuit he filed against CBS following his infamous, retracted 2004 story about President Bush's military service record. A follow-up investigation never concluded whether the Bush documents were real or fake.
Keywords: President Bush · Danes · military · services · lawsuit · 2004 · infamous · investigators · Dan Rather · CBS
Dec 12th, 2008 · Researchers have spent the past four years poring over data from the Indian Ocean trying to find out if and when more giant quakes like the one that created the 2004 tsunami are likely. New techniques now suggest they are, within the next few decades.
Keywords: Scientists · 2004 · earthquake · tsunami · Sumatra · Indian Ocean · Foresees
Dec 4th, 2008 · Odetta has left a 50-year legacy of freedom and celebration with her death on Dec. 2, 2008. In this interview with David Dye, recorded on Martin Luther King Day in 2004, Odetta speaks of her performance at the March on Washington and her music from an influential childhood in segregated America.
Keywords: freedom · deaths · Washington · legacy · celebration · Segregated · America · music · 2004 · interviews · childhood · Martin Luther King Day
Nov 27th, 2008 · As part of StoryCorps' National Day of Listening project, Madeleine Brand shares a conversation she had with her father, Gerhard Brand, before he died in 2004. The project encourages people to sit down with a loved one on Nov. 28, the day after Thanksgiving, and record a meaningful conversation.
Keywords: world · Madeleine Brand · 2004 · Austria · II · Thanksgiving · Gerhard Brand
Nov 11th, 2008 · There were not many more voters casting ballots in the 2008 presidential election than during the last presidential election in 2004. Curtis Gans, director of American University's Center for the Study of the American Electorate, sorts through the numbers.
Keywords: director · presidential · voters · 2004 · Turnout · 2008 · American University · Curtis Gans · American Electorate
Nov 11th, 2008 · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is an unlikely best-seller — it's the first book in a trilogy of thrillers written by Stieg Larsson, a previously unknown Swedish journalist who died of a heart attack in 2004.
Keywords: seller · 2004 · Swedish · Trilogy · thriller · Posthumous · Stieg Larsson · Dragon Tattoo
Nov 10th, 2008 · The New York Times reported Monday that a 2004 classified order authorized the U.S. military to attack the al Qaeda network throughout the world. Mark Mazetti, co-author of the article, discusses the undisclosed attacks that took place.
Keywords: world · Al Qaeda · network · military · Secret · New York Times · 2004 · Mazetti
