Monday, Jan. 15, 2001 | The Kojo Nnamdi Show

He was born the son of a Kentucky sharecropper and became the first African American Master Diver in the U.S. Navy. Now Carl Brashear's life story is the subject of an upcoming film, starring two Academy award winning actors. Kojo talks to...

Mention the Caucasus (COCK-uh-sus) mountains, and most people only know about the war in Chechnya (CHECH-nee-ah). But with multiple languages and ethnicities, there's a much bigger story to be told. How memory and geography define the...