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Jim Carrier presents a guided tour of the civil rights movement in his book, "A Traveler's Guide to the Civil Rights Movement." Carrier recounts earlier moments in black history in which the civil rights movement began. Terence Smith speaks with…

Militants in Iraq beheaded a South Korean contractor they had held hostage. Ray Suarez discusses this incident with Washington Post reporter Rajiv Chandrasekaran in Baghdad.

As the campaign season heats up, independent conservative and liberal groups are running numerous television ads that invoke powerful images, including of the late President Reagan, Halliburton, and the war on terror. Brooks Jackson analyzes these ads from political advocacy…