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It's been 70 years since Emmett Till, a Black teenager visiting relatives in Mississippi, was killed by white men because he whistled at a white woman. Now the gun used in his death is in a museum.

UC Berkeley told 160 faculty, staff and students that their names were included in files shared with the federal government related to "alleged antisemitic incidents." We hear from one of them.

A federal lawsuit against the Massachusetts Department of Education accuses the state of censorship and political interference for using the word "genocide" in its high school curriculum to describe the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Armenians in Turkey during World War I. Plaintiffs in the suit say that designation is up for debate - but opponents say the evidence of genocide is clear.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with medical anthropologist Paul Farmer about his new book, Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds. It explores how the Ebola virus spread and the failure to contain it.

A commission created by the mayor of Richmond, Va., is considering the fate of the former Confederate capital's famed monuments. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro sits in on its first public hearing.

This weekend, descendants of slave narrative authors gathered at a conference in Buffalo. Michel Martin talks with participants and workshop leader Kari Winter about the event, and the stories of their ancestors.

Watkins will join the fourth SpaceX Crew next April on her way to entering the ranks of other history-making women at NASA like astronauts Mae Jemison and Sally Ride.

2: HARVEY KRAVITZ and JACK TREATMAN are coffee experts. KRAVITZ is a coffee consultant. TREATMAN is the co-proprietor of Old City Coffee in Philadelphia. They talk about coffee beans, coffee history and the coffee culture.

Liane Hansen speaks with award-winning poet Li-Young Lee (LEE OUNG-LEE) about his first book of prose, "The Winged Seed - A Remembrance." Simon & Schuster) Lee's account describes the turbulent and colorful history of is family, starting in the early 1950's when his parents fled Indonesia and ame to the United States.

Professor MICHAEL KAZIN. His new book, "The Populist Persuasion: An American History" (Basic Books) explores the rise and change of populism an its effect on the political structure. He examines populism's roots as a leftist, liberal movement and how populist ideas came to be used as rhetoric of conservative Presidents Nixon and Reagan.