Young people are discovering public radio and making the medium their own. New Voices highlights the projects that help teens broadcast their own music and stories. The creators of a new series of hip-hop books are hoping to nudge young, urban black and Latino males into a life of literacy. Critics, however, say these books promote negative images of the very readers they're meant to attract. The ancestors of an estimated 5 percent of Hispanics in the American Southwest were persecuted during the Spanish Inquisition.
Fatherhood is a thrilling time.
Reflections of a new mother on her own upbringing and how she wants to raise her child in a multicultural, multilingual family. Along the eastern Gulf Coast, hurricanes have swept tons and tons of sand out to sea, eroding not only the shoreline, but the tourism industry too. Now some communities, like Gulf Shores, Alabama, are working to restore both the beach and the local economy. The Salton Sea is California's largest lake, and its most troubled. If problems such as excess salinity are not fixed soon, the Salton Sea could become a dead sea, and millions of birds could lose this critical link on the Pacific flyway.