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Young black men in America have rarely had it easy -- but recent studies by researchers at Columbia, Princeton, Harvard and other institutions indicate the past few years have brought even more new challenges for African-American men. Farai Chideya discusses the issue with Columbia University professor Ronald Mincy and Tawnya McCrary, an advocate for the disadvantaged in Indianapolis, Ind.

David Seymour chronicled wars and the lives they shattered from the 1930s to 1950s. He took pictures from his heart. And the photog who went by the nickname Chim somehow found a way to get close enough to capture the spirit of his subjects.

U.S. and British troops free three Christian peace activists in rural Iraq without firing a shot, ending a four-month hostage drama in which a fourth activist in the group, American Tom Fox, was shot to death and dumped on a Baghdad street.

Poet Frank X Walker believes artists aren't the only creative people. He says barbers, cooks, janitors and kids enrich the world with their creativity as much as the painters, sculptors and writers.

The Senate begins debate on overhauling the nation's immigration laws. Senators will consider a measure passed on Monday by the Senate Judiciary Committee that would clear the way for 11 million illegal immigrants to seek U.S. citizenship. It would create a guest worker program, something President Bush supports and the House of Representatives has rejected.

Swarms of French demonstrators take to the streets in protest of a new law that would make it easier to fire workers younger than 26. The protests draw hundreds of thousands of people. Some of the protesters attack police, who respond with tear gas and paint bullets.

Ocean ports are among the last major unregulated sources of concentrated pollution in the country. The biggest are the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. But there's a new man in charge. Tough-talking David Freeman, who helped establish the Environmental Protection Agency says he's going to slash pollution at Southern California's ports by 80 percent.

A judge rules that mega-selling author Dan Brown did not steal ideas for The Da Vinci Code from the nonfiction work The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. The ruling will allow a film based on the book and starring Tom Hanks to open as scheduled on May 19. Steve Inskeep talks to David Hooper, an intellectual-property lawyer in Britain.

Emergency aid is arriving in Indonesia to help areas devastated by this weekend's earthquake. The Indonesian government estimates that more than 5,000 people died in the quake. Alex Chadwick speaks with Barry Came, a spokesman for the United Nations World Food Program, about relief efforts in Yogyakarta, near the epicenter of Saturday's quake.

In Cleveland, an experiment is under way to find new ways to give people purpose and enjoyment as they reach retirement age. But as Americans live longer, views on what retirement means are slow to change.