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In the latest in a series on the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports from San Francisco. The city's complex racial and ethnic mix makes integrating its schools increasingly difficult. Now many members of one minority group, Chinese Americans, are actively opposing integration efforts, saying they're just another form of discrimination. NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports.

Jack Miles is a former Jesuit seminarian and literary critic. In 1996 he won a Pulitzer Prize for his book, God: A Biography. In the book he examines God as a character -- the protagonist -- of the Old Testament. He is currently a contributing editor at The Atlantic Monthly, a director of Trinity Press and a senior adviser to the president of the J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles.

Taubman is a political science professor at Amherst College and an expert on Russia. This week he received a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of the Russian ruler Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era.

The U.S. military concedes disappointment with the performance of some U.S.-trained Iraqi units in the wake of widespread attacks by both Sunni and Shiite Muslim insurgents. Chief U.S. administrator Paul Bremer acknowledges that the Iraqi army and civil defense force will not be in a position to control the country when the U.S. hands over sovereignty to an interim government at the end of June. NPR's Anne Garrels reports.

Amid fighting in several Iraqi cities, an increasing number of foreigners are missing or held hostage by insurgents. Meanwhile, Vice President Cheney goes to Japan as a crisis builds over threats to kill three Japanese who are captive in Iraq. Hear NPR's Philip Reeves and NPR's Rob Gifford.

It's a compelling story about rape, race and discrimination in the town of Springfield, Ill. Renatta Frazier was an African-American cop whose inaction was blamed for the rape of a young white woman and discovered she was part of a police department cover-up. In an exclusive three-part series, Frazier tells her story.

NPR's Melissa Block talks with two high-ranking retired U.S. generals -- Maj. Gen. Robert Scales and Maj. Gen. William Nash -- about the American strategy in Iraq now that fighting has broken out between U.S.-led forces and both Shiite and Sunni Muslim militias.

The Alamo, starring Dennis Quaid and Billy Bob Thornton, was supposed to open last December, but problems with cast and producers delayed it for a spring release. Bob Mondello reviews the historical epic, which opens in theaters Friday.

NPR's David Schaper reports from Ellsworth, Wis., on the return of the U.S. Army's 652nd Engineer Company from duty in Iraq. The relatively small bridge-building unit suffered more casualties than any other Army reserve unit.

As part of the project, 120,000 pennies modified by an artist have been released through delis and bodegas. The project connects the fragility of the economy with the losses of COVID.