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David Person reports on the origins of the song, "Lift Every Voice and Sing". Written in 1900, the song is now called the Black National Anthem. This story is part of the ongoing series, Present at the Creation.

A six-part NPR News series on changing attitudes toward immigration in the wake of Sept. 11 continues. On Morning Edition, Eric Westervelt reports on the relationship between the INS and local police.

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Radio Diaries and All Things Considered continue their multi-part radio tribute to jobs that are slowly disappearing, celebrating people who keep alive an older way of life. This week, a profile of Selma Koch, one of the last old-style bra fitters. Her shop's motto? "We know your size."

Linda Wertheimer continues her conversation with Dan Bern.

Singer-songwriter Sally Taylor talks about her song "Victim." Sally Taylor has followed the profession of her parents, James Taylor and Carly Simon, and she's now released her third CD. It's called Shotgun.

Biographer Edmund Morris finds parallels between the events of 1901, when an anarchist's bullet thrust Theodore Roosevelt into the presidency, and today, when terrorists want to bring the country down. Hear Morris discuss his latest book, Theodore Rex. (8:45) (Theodore Rex is published by Random House. ISBN: 03945

Linda Wertheimer takes us on a career profile of the late Robert Trout, veteran broadcaster and All Things Considered commentator. We learn about Trout's beginnings at a small Northern Virginia radio station as a janitor/announcer, and follow his career through his rise to covering presidential events and World War II, anchoring the fledgling CBS News broadcasts. His on-air calm steered CBS through the war, and his reassuring presence brought America some of the biggest stories of the day. Fortunately, most of what he did survives in recordings. This profile is an excerpt from a forthcoming NPR two-hour special due out early next year.

NPR's Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg reports on what some architects and urbanism experts envision as the future of the skyscraper in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with photographer and explorer David Coulson about his adventures in the Sahara, discovering and preserving rock art, an ancient form of painting and engraving on stone. (6:09