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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.

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.

Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff announces that Mike Brown, the embattled director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is being relieved from daily direction of the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

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.

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.

Once British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced he would be stepping down in June, the ruling Labor Party began the process of finding a successor. But there is little suspense about the process; Finance Minister Gordon Brown is the sole legitimate candidate.

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.

For his new book, the popular Food Network host hopped on a motorcycle to find the best road food along the Mississippi River. His flavorful picks range from deep-fried dishes to pickles soaked in Kool-Aid.

Anne Brown, who would have been 110 years old this month, was the first Black vocalist ever accepted at Juilliard.