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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is urging the nation to break the racial stalemate he says the country has been stuck in for years. Tuesday's speech in Philadelphia was Obama's most prominent airing of racial issues of his campaign and follows attention focused on explosive statements by his long-time pastor and mentor.

President Bush welcomed Pope Benedict to Washington, in the first visit to the White House in nearly 30 years. Benedict spoke with President Bush about Iraq and foreign policy in the first full day of his U.S. trip. The pontiff also celebrated his 81st birthday.

On his 81st birthday, Pope Benedict XVI was greeted by military bands and an enthusiastic crowd of 9,000 at the White House. In his remarks, the pope urged peace through diplomacy and democracy, themes he's likely to invoke at the United Nations later this week.

From the moment Sen. Barack Obama rocked the 2004 Democratic National Convention by talking of the "awesome God" in the blue states, he has been recognized for his artful use of theological language. In the past, Democrats have shied away from talking about personal faith, but Obama has put his faith front and center.

The Justice Department simulation is meant to show how many barriers formerly incarcerated people face after they are released. (Story aired on Weekend All Things Considered on July 8, 2023.)

After adopting two sisters from India, David and Desiree Smolin were shocked to learn that the girls' birth mother had been tricked into giving them up. The Smolins say their experience reveals the dark side of international adoptions.

One of the most popular poets among Western readers today is actually a long dead poet of the East. Rumi, the 13th century poet of the Persian empire, still inspires with his works evoking ecstasy and the divine.

When Vernon Tott came upon Germany's Ahlem concentration camp in April 1945, he and fellow American liberators were unprepared for the horrific scene they found.

"We won't heal until we make sense of the crack epidemic," Donovan X. Ramsey says. His book, When Crack Was King, examines the drug's destructive path through the Black community.

As summer winds down, so, too, does our series on summer foods. This week's final installment focuses on moms — and their singular cooking techniques. We hear about Chinese barbecue sauce and "wacky cake."