Natalie Hopkinson

Earlier this week, Washington D.C. music legend Chuck Brown died at age 75. Brown was known as the Godfather of Go-Go: the funky, bluesy sound that was born in, and helped define, African-American life in the city - particularly in the 1970s and '80s. These days, you’re more likely to find it in the suburbs, if you can find it at all. We talk with Natalie Hopkinson, author of the social history “Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City.”

Natalie Hopkinson, writer for The Root and the author of Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation, talks about the recently opened Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial on the Mall in Washington.

Since last Tuesday, Americans have been bombarded with daily media coverage of the earthquake in Haiti. TV networks show image after image of death and destruction, while newspapers feature grave details. But the words and images that media outlets choose can themselves prove controversial. We take a moment in the midst of our coverage on Haiti to examine how the media has been covering the earthquake.