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ArchivesTruckers Anticipate Delays During ConventionBy Raquel Maria Dillon on Monday, July 19, 2004.Delivery services and truckers both large and small are scrambling to figure out how to make their deliveries. New Hampshire Public Radio's Raquel Maria Dillon reports. listen:
 A Nevada Dump's Future and NH Nuclear WasteBy Mark Bevis on Monday, July 19, 2004.A RECENT FEDERAL APPEALS COURT DECISION IN WASHINGTON HAS PUT A PROPOSED DUMP IN NEVADA ON HOLD. AND THAT COULD HAVE CONSEQUENCES FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE. NHPR'S MARK BEVIS HAS DETAILS. listen:
Black PortsmouthBy John Walters on Monday, July 19, 2004.Black people have lived in Portsmouth for 300 years, but their story is almost entirely ignored by the standard history books. We?ll meet historic preservationists Valerie Cunningham and Mark Sammons. They recently collaborated on Black people have lived in Portsmouth for 300 years, but their story is almost entirely ignored by the standard history books. We?ll meet historic preservationists Valerie Cunningham and Mark Sammons. They recently collaborated on Black Portsmouth, a new history of the African-American community in the seacoast city. listen:
The Story of the Pullman PortersBy Laura Knoy on Monday, July 19, 2004.Their image: a corps of ever-smiling black men waiting on white luxury train passengers hand and foot. But these men and women became one of the most influential groups in African American history...becoming civil rights leaders, creating the first black labor union and being the backbone to today?s black middle class. It's been said that behind almost every successful African-American, there is a Pullman porter. From Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall to activist Malcolm X to jazz great Oscar Peterson. Laura's guest is Larry Tye, longtime Boston Globe reporter and author of "Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class". listen:
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