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NPR's Marcus Rosenbaum discusses the lack of clear-cut divisions between non-immigrant whites and African Americans. Both groups generally differ from immigrants -- they agree with each other on some questions, and disagree on others. Twice as many African-Americans polled, for example, believe an immigrant must believe in God to become a full citizen of the United States.

With the climate warming rapidly, scientists are finding that cutting fossil fuels may not be enough. Carbon dioxide emissions may need to be vacuumed right out of the air.

Samantha Power, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, warns that the United States and its allies risk becoming bystanders to slaughter as they were in1994 in Rwanda. Power, whose New York Times editorial article on the subject was printed Tuesday, says more than 30,000 minority Africans in Sudan have been killed. NPR's Melissa Block talks with Power.

Photographer Adger Cowans, who covered everything from the Civil Rights movement to movie stars, has a new exhibit at age 85 in Fairfield, Conn.

Polling data that measures race relations may always be looked upon skeptically by African Americans, but the Gallup Organization tries each year to measure -- by "oversampling" African Americans and Latinos -- the level of racial harmony in the country. This year, Gallup says Americans feel mostly positive about the state of black-white relations in the country, and between other racial groups as well. NPR's Tavis Smiley speaks with Frank Newport, the editor in chief of the Gallup Poll.

A new book collects the stories of ordinary Americans who were involved in -- and transformed by -- the country's civil rights movements. NPR's Juan Williams, who compiled the oral histories, discusses them with NPR's Steve Inskeep.

The second of the Lost & Found Sound Memphis trilogy presents a glimpse of life through the recordings of African American photographer RA Coleman, making his living by documenting the black community in the 1950s South.

Ten years ago, the Denny's restaurant chain was forced to pay a $54-million settlement in a class-action suit charging it discriminated against African Americans. But discrimination in the corporate world persists. NPR's Tony Cox discusses what it takes to change corporate culture with U.T. Saunders, an organizational-development consultant, and Rachel Hood, director of corporate diversity at Denny's.

Rev. Al Sharpton energizes the audience at the 2004 Democratic Convention with his response to questions asked of African-American voters by President Bush at last week's National Urban League convention.

We get commentary on African-American participation in the Republican National Convention from J.C. Watts, a former GOP congressman from Oklahoma, and Joseph C. Phillips, an actor and essayist.