Gan Golan of Los Angeles, dressed as the "Master of Degrees," holds a ball and chain representing his college loan debt during Occupy D.C. activities in Washington. Average in-state tuition and fees at four-year public colleges rose an additional $631 this fall, or 8.3 percent, compared with a year ago.
In this week's podcast of weekends on All Things Considered, the student debt crisis, and the life and death of facts. Plus, the D-Day rehearsal that ended in disaster, remembering the LA riots, and pastor Joel Osteen. Also, "Glee" star Chris Colfer's new movie and country singer Carrie Underwood.
Originally published on Sun April 29, 2012 4:48 pm
Twenty years later, first-person accounts of the Los Angeles riots from Angelenos Titus Murphy, Ted Soqui and Rhonda Mitchell, who first told their stories to L.A. Magazine.
Originally published on Sun April 29, 2012 4:48 pm
Weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz checks-in with Three-Minute Fiction judge Luis Alberto Urrea to hear how the reading process is going and to hear some of his favorite stories thus far.
Sudan has declared a state of emergency as tensions mount along the disputed border it shares with its new neighbor, South Sudan.
As the AP reports, declaring a state of emergency gives the government expanded powers of arrest. On Saturday, Sudanese officials claimed they had arrested four people, including three foreigners.
