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For a year-long project, a group of eighth-graders set out to record the memories and impressions of Philadelphia parents and grandparents of teens who fell to gun violence. The three-person interviews were orchestrated by a local group, Need in Deed, and StoryCorps.

New Orleans is still off limits to most of its residents. NPR's Cheryl Corley drove to the city's Gentilly neighborhood to check out evacuee Mary Jacobs' home, and called her with a report.

Hundreds of people are still being plucked daily from the roofs of their homes or other buildings in New Orleans as the Coast Guard and U.S. military conduct the largest airlift operation in the nation's history. But some residents are defying calls to leave the city.

"Solidarity Forever," the unofficial anthem of the American labor movement, was written in 1915 by a little-known poet named Ralph Chaplin and set to the civil war tune "John Brown's Body." Since then, it has been sung in union halls, jails and on picket lines across the country.

Last week, high school freshman Jackie Kantor and her younger sister Melissa had an idea: they wanted to give displaced children new backpacks. More than 2,000 backpacks have been collected for kids who lost all their other possessions in Hurricane Katrina.

The images of New Orleans struggling in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have been painful and disturbing. Life-long New Orleans resident and award-winning photographer Louis Sahuc talks about what's lost -- and how his photos preserve a city's memory.

The hip-hop collective known as Black Sheep — rapper Dres and DJ Mister Lawnge (pronounced "long") — have reunited after more than a decade for a North American tour and a new album.

In the second of a two-part series, we hear about arguments for an American withdrawal from Iraq.

More than 5,000 U.S. and Iraqi soldiers launch operations against Tal Afar, considered to be a logistical hub for insurgents across Iraq. Some 200 suspects have been arrested outside the city. Melissa Block talks to The Washington Post's Jonathan Finer.

George McKee Elsey quietly witnessed and participated in the making of American history as an aide to two presidents — Roosevelt and Truman. Now 88, he tells his story in An Unplanned Life.