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Joe speaks with NPR's Margot Adler about the NAACP's annual meeting in New York City. Today, members cast a vote of no confidence in the civil rights organization's current Chairman of the Board of Directors, William Gibson.

NPR's Isabel Alegria reports on a crime prevention program in California that receives federal funds from President Clinton's crime bill--funds that are threatened by Republican members of Congress.

Joe talks with Richard Berkholder, the director of International Operations for the Gallup Organziation. They discuss the first ever Gallup poll taken in China, whcihc was just completed. Berkholder says some commonly held Western beliefs about China will be dispelled once people read the results of the survey.

Jacki talks with author Pete Dexter, who wrote Paris Trout, about his most recent novel "Paper Boy". Dexter's has been a rough 'n tumble life, filled with many of the dramatic events that characterize his novels. It is this wide range of experience that Dexter says makes it easier to put yourself in the minds of people who have different backgrounds from your own.

Jacki talks to Rolling Stone editor Anthony DeCurtis about the new CD by Throwing Muses, "University." DeCurtis says that Throwing Muses was a precursor to the group of young bands led by women that have recently become popular. There are a lot of nonnarrative lyrics in the songs by the bandleader, Kristin Hersh, who uses the voices of her children and the ocean in some of the compositions.

Joyce Russell of member station WOI reports that preparations for the Iowa caucuses in anticipation of the 1996 presidential campaign are way ahead of schedule. With several Republican candidates having declared their candidacy...party leaders in Iowa are already chosing who they will back.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports on the state of civil security in Haiti. Many people feel safer now that there is a multinational security force maintaining the peace, although there is still some violent crime. Even though a Haitian police force is being trained, many Haitians are worried about what will happen when the multinationals leave.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on a last minute U.S. and China agreement that will avert a trade war over pirated music, movies and computer software.

NPR's Anne Garrels was in the Chechen capital of Grozny and reports on the scene there... burned out Russian tanks, a few Russian prisoners of war, and determined Chechen fighters.

A year ago today, Zapatista rebels began their uprising in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. Since then, there has been an assisination, the economy nosedived and peso was dramatically devalued. Daniel talks to NPR's David Welna in Mexico City about one of the worst years in the country's history.

During the mid-term elections there was a great outcry for less government in people's lives. NPR's John Burnett talks to small business owners in Texas, who hope the new Republican-majority Congress will mean less red tape.

Danny speaks with New Jersey state senator Joseph Bubba about a bill he's introduced which would fine politicians in that state for lying in campaign ads.

NPR's Brook Gladstone reports on the latest events in the breakaway republic of Chechnya. Russian troops appear to be poised to occupy the capitol city of Grozny.

Danny visits the Library of Congress where the actual written copy of Lincoln's Gettyburg Address is on display. It's the first time in 22 years the actual address has been shown at the Library of Congress.

Critic Bob Mondello takes this look at the new film "Ladybird, Ladybird." It is the story of an English woman who battles the state to win back her children after they were taken away from her because authorities believed she had abandoned them.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that free oil shipments to North Korea are beginning in exchange for the government's abandonment of nuclear weapons. Republicans say that the deal isn't tough enough on the North Koreans.

Danny speaks with Tim Hagan, Cayahoga county commisioner in Ohio, about what the Democratic party needs to do to revitalize itself in the eyes of the American electorate.

Many legal immigrants to the United States are rushing to get their U.S. citizenship these days. Julia McEvoy reports from Chicago that immigrants there have become concerned about their status since the passage of Proposition 187 in California and because of ongoing threats by Republicans that some benefits should be waived for legal immigrants.

NPR's Ann Cooper attends the funeral of Joe Slovo, a long time South African anti-apartheid activist, member of the African National Congress and Communist Party. She has this remembrance.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were both civil rights leaders but they had very different approaches in their efforts to gain equality for blacks in a white dominated society. Daniel talks with Orlando Bagwell, producer of the documentary "Malcolm X, Make It Plain", about the relationship between the two leaders and how it evolved over time.

Madeline Brand of member station WBGO in Newark reports on a proposal in the NJ state legislature which would force applicants for drivers licenses to take their test in English. New Jersey currently offers the test in a dozen languages.

NPR's Jon Greenberg reports on the numbers involved in the debate on welfare reform. There are many statistics on welfare, and politicans involved in the issue have been choosing stats that support their point of view.

NPR's Kathy Lohr reports from Oklahoma City that residents there are anxiously awaiting the verdict in the Timothy McVeigh bombing trial being held in Denver. Many of them gathered today at a fence surrounding what used to be the Alfred Murrah Federal Building to lay wreaths, flowers and other items in memory of those lost in the blast two years ago.

Craig speaks with reporter Mike O'Connor about secretary of state Madeleine Albright's trip to Croatia and Serbia where she urged leaders to live up to their commitments to the Dayton Peace Plan which ended years of fighting in the former Yugoslavia.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports on the largest ritual gathering ever... about 18 million people converged on the town of Allahabad on the Ganges river for what one participant called "the spiritual jackpot." This festival is held every six years, but this will be the last one this century and it fell on Monday, which is a lucky day for Hindus, so there was a record turnout.