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An NPR War Diary entry from Lt. Col. Ken Brown, a chaplain with the 101st Airborne Division, in southern Iraq, who is helping young Americans in the armed forces to deal with their first brush with death, close up.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown says reducing California's inmate population further to meet a federal order will endanger public safety and…

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-923642.mp3Albany, NY – Alan is joined by Paul Browne, Deputy Commissioner of Public…

To many, being "brown" is about a set of shared experiences that include things like being subjected to discrimination and stereotyping. But there's some history here.

We remember Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, the singer and guitarist who died Saturday in his hometown of Orange, Texas. He had gone there to escape Hurricane Katrina. He was 81. Brown, who had been battling lung cancer and heart disease, was in ill health for the past year, said Rick Cady, his booking agent. Cady said the musician was with his family at his brother's house when he died. Brown's home in Slidell, La., a bedroom community of New Orleans, was destroyed by Katrina, Cady said.

Go-Go is dance music with beats meant to get bodies moving, and a texture built on the call and response with the crowd. The Go-Go creator, Chuck Brown, has a new CD called We're About the Business.

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-878120.mp3Boston, MA – Republican Scott Brown has put out his first TV ad of the U.S.…

By Paul Tuthillhttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-882860.mp3Chicopee, MA – U.S. Senator Elect Scott Brown launched a…

By Paul Tuthillhttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-881027.mp3Boston, MA – Scott Brown, until now a relatively unknown…

Our series on the legacy of the Brown v. Board of Education decision continues. NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports from a Los Angeles high school where virtually all of the students are Latino. The question at Roosevelt High is often whether that statistic is a result of economics or race.