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Karen Grigsby Bates tours the South Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts with journalist Karl Fleming, who was nearly beaten to death during a racial protest in the summer of 1966. Fleming's new book details his time reporting on the civil rights movement during the turbulent 1960s.

America's prisons are bursting at the seams with drug offenders. But the so-called "war on drugs" appears to have had little effect on the price and availability of illicit substances. Though drug use among whites is on par with blacks, African Americans account for nearly 60 percent of all U.S. drug convictions. For a closer look at what needs to be done to fight a fair and effective "war on drugs," Ed Gordon speaks with John Walters, director of the National Office of Drug Control Policy -- the nation's "drug czar.'

The White House is trying to contain possible damage from a Pentagon report on abuse of the Quran at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Presidential spokesman Scott McClellan says the media is blowing "isolated incidents" out of proportion.

Higher costs for food, labor, rent, gasoline and cooking gas make it harder for casual dining places to buy, cook and deliver meals. And they're limited in how much they can pass on to customers.

A federal investigation of allegations that China is illegally avoiding duties on solar panels sold to U.S. companies is putting the brakes on the nation's solar power build-out.

The man who leaked the Pentagon Papers told NPR it's obvious why the Supreme Court wants to keep their process secret: "No organization really wants to show how the sausage is made."

In a Morning Edition commentary, Melissa Herman describes hearing bad news about Iraq and fearing the worst about her husband, an Army helicopter pilot deployed there. Her essay is part of a project National Endowment for the Arts called Operation Homecoming.

Author Tim Tyson's Blood Done Sign My Name tells the story of the racial and sexual tension surrounding a 1970 lynching in Tyson's hometown of Oxford, N.C.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson, announces he is resigning, becoming the eighth member of President Bush's cabinet to step down since the election. Thompson said more than a year ago that he didn't plan to stay past 2004. Hear NPR's Julie Rovner.

Mexican singer Vivir Quintana talks about her latest song, 'El Corrido de Milo Vela,' which tells the story of one of the many journalists who have been murdered in Mexico for doing their jobs.

NPR's Noah Adams talks to Tess Vigeland of Marketplace about the recent plunge in value of the U.S. dollar on the international money market, and how that could fuel inflation in the United States.

Researchers in London who analyzed the final novel by author Iris Murdoch have detected signs of Alzheimer's disease in the book's language. Murdoch wrote Jackson's Dilemma just before she was diagnosed with the degenerative brain disease. NPR's Melissa Block talks with Dr. Peter Garrard, lead author of the study.