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Bob Edwards talks with Roy Johnson, creator of a new magazine geared toward African Americans.

Bob Edwards talks with Roy Johnson, creator of a new magazine geared toward African Americans.

NPR's Annie Wu reports on the discovery of ten plays by Zora Neale Hurston, the celebrated novelist who wrote "Their Eyes Were Watching God." The African-American writer is best known for her books and short stories, which capture the dialect, traditions, and history of southern blacks in the early 20th century. Hurston's plays follow in the same vein, and include songs she documented when she worked as an Anthropologist in Florida.

Ivan Watson reports from Nigeria on a new commission investigating human rights violations. The West African country is trying to uncover crimes committed during a 30-year military dictatorship.

Leda Hartman reports on the controversy within the United Church of Christ over the blocking of admission to gays and lesbians in a predominantly African-American congregation in North Carolina.

Tandaleya Wilder reports half of the people waiting for organ or bone marrow transplants are African- American. But African-Americans are much less likely than white Americans to sign up as donors. The result is a critical shortage in donor matches for African-American patients.

Sociologist SUDHIR VENKATESH. Hes an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of African American Studies at Columbia University in New York. His newest book –American Project: The Rise and Fall of the Modern Ghetto,— (Harvard 2000) was awarded the 2000 Professional/ Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers. His research interests are based in investigating the social organization of poor urban neighborhoods. He lives in New York City.

African-American, Latino and other non-white Republicans are often labeled as "sell-outs." Now that their party controls Congress and the White House, NPR's Phillip Martin reports on what minority Republicans are saying about their politics and their expectations of George W. Bush.

The town council in Freeport, Maine has voted to ban the sale of mercury thermometers, after finding a high rate of mercury contamination in its rain samples. The amount of mercury in a single thermometer is about a gram, enough to pollute an average size lake. Noah talks with David Soley, Town Councilor for Freeport, Maine.

The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Laurent Kabila has been shot. Some credible sources indicate he is dead. Others say he is critically wounded. At least one suggests he has left the country for treatment of his wounds. Linda talks to Nicolas Long, a reporter for the South African newspaper The Star, who is in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.