Sep 5th, 2008 · Pang Brothers' partially sanitized remake of their own 1999 thriller is hardly philosophical — but it's style and its soul are more Asian than American, and it leaves some space for contemplation between the shootouts.
Apr 4th, 2008 · Martin Luther King Jr. was in Memphis in 1968 rallying for fair treatment and pay of African-American sanitation workers when he was assassinated. American history professor Michael Honey joins Fresh Air to discuss his book on the labor campaign King was leading at the time of his death.
Apr 4th, 2008 · Forty years ago Friday, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed in Memphis, Tenn. Sanitation workers, who were on strike in the city at the time, remember the indignities they suffered and the civil rights leader who came to support them.
Apr 3rd, 2008 · On April 3, 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his final public speech. Hours before his assassination, he spoke of the injustice felt by the city's striking sanitation workers. But, prophetically, he also touched on death and his own mortality.
Nov 17th, 2007 · In her new book, The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History, Katherine Ashenburg looks at the fascinating history of cleanliness -- or the lack thereof -- and how humans' obsession with hygiene has led to today's over sanitized world.
Feb 1st, 2007 · Many of Guatemala's rural indigenous communities lack infrastructure basics such as clean drinking water, sanitation and electricity. A group of American eco-engineers is working with Mayan villages to change that.
Jun 28th, 2006 · San Diego may have the finest garbage truck drivers in the world. For the fourth time in the city's history, a San Diego city employee has won the Sanitation Driver of the Year award.
Jan 17th, 2006 · Two million gallons of untreated sewage have spilled over a large swath of beach along the Santa Monica Bay, causing major headaches for sanitation officials and homeowners. Los Angeles County says it's the largest spill of its kind in more than a decade.