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Lisa interviews author Diane McWhorter about her new book Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama; the Climactic Battle of the Civil rights Movement. McWhorter grew up in Birmingham, the child of a privileged white family. When the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing happened in 1963, a pivotal event in the civil rights movement, McWhorter recalls that she and her family were barely aware of it.

NPR's Guy Raz sends a radio postcard from Berlin on opening day of the NFL-Europe season, and a game between the Berlin Thunder and the Barcelona Dragons.

A profile of Mexican-American writer Dagoberto Gilb by reporter Tom Vitale. Gilb's latest short story collection is Woodcuts of Women (Grove Press; ISBN: 0802116795)

Lisa visits with three teenagers in Vienna, Virginia, to learn about the ingenious uses to which they're putting Napster, the on-line music-swapping service. As they tell it, Napster is about more than just a free ride.

Satire from songwriter William De Fotis.

NPR's movie critic Bob Mondello reviews the new film by German-born director Dominick Moll, a comic thriller called With a Friend Like Harry.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports on the goal-setting agreement signed at the Summit of the Americas this past weekend. Thousands of protesters outside the conference did not seem to distract the leaders of western hemisphere nations from planning a "Free Trade Area of the Americas" that would expand NAFTA to include 34 countries.

NPR's Jack Speer reports on the sinking sales figures for personal computers.

From member station WABE in Atlanta, Joshua Levs reports on a tentative contract agreement reached by the pilots union at Delta Airlines. Delta officials are hoping the agreement will help to restore the public's trust. The airline has seen a drop in bookings, and recently posted its first loss in six years.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports on the impact Reverend Jesse Jackson's latest scandals have had on his previously active political life. Jackson was conspicuously absent from the riots in Cincinnati earlier this month, after a unarmed black man was shot and killed by a white police officer.