Calif.'s 'Prop 8' Ban On Same-Sex Marriages Ruled Unconstitutional : The Two-Way : NPR

Calif.'s 'Prop 8' Ban On Same-Sex Marriages Ruled Unconstitutional : The Two-Way : NPR: "Breaking news at 4:50 p.m. ET:

A U.S. District Court judge has ruled that California's so-called Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional"

Nine Women In The Room: A Music Writers Roundtable : The Record : NPR

Nine Women In The Room: A Music Writers Roundtable : The Record : NPR

Social Networking Surges For Seniors : NPR

Social Networking Surges For Seniors : NPR:

"Grandma is posting a photo on Facebook.

Grandpa is looking for former colleagues on LinkedIn.

And more and more people ages 50 and older are joining social networks, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project. The study found that social networking has almost doubled among this population — growing from 22 percent to 42 percent over the past year."

Five Years Later: A Letter To New Orleans : NPR

Five Years Later: A Letter To New Orleans : NPR

Keith Woods is NPR's vice president for diversity in News and Operations and is the former dean of the faculty at the Poynter Institute, a training center for professional journalists in St. Petersburg, Fla. Woods was born in New Orleans, where he worked for 16 years as a journalist at The Times-Picayune. New Orleans also is where Woods met Lawrence "Shorty" Washington, the Crescent City shoeshine man and editorial inspiration to whom this letter is addressed.

Jonathan Richards: The First Illegal Immigrants

Jonathan Richards: The First Illegal Immigrants

Meditation Appears to Boost Attention Span - US News and World Report

Meditation Appears to Boost Attention Span - US News and World Report: "Meditation Appears to Boost Attention Span
Ability to make fine visual distinctions, sustain focus improved in study participants"

Strange Fruit: Anniversary Of A Lynching : NPR

Strange Fruit: Anniversary Of A Lynching : NPR:

"Eighty years ago, two young African-American men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, were lynched in the town center of Marion, Ind. The night before, on Aug. 6, 1930, they had been arrested and charged with the armed robbery and murder of a white factory worker, Claude Deeter, and the rape of his companion, Mary Ball.

That evening, local police were unable to stop a mob of thousands from breaking into the jail with sledgehammers and crowbars to pull the young men out of their cells and lynch them."