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NPR's Josh Levs reports a federal court has disqualified admissions policies at the University of Georgia that favored minorities. The ruling raises questions about the definition and value of diversity in higher education.

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan reviews the new movie, Jesus' Son, the latest work by Director Allison McClain. Turan says it's a dead-on representation of the life of an American junkie in the 1970's.

The Confederate battle flag was retired from the dome of South Carolina's state capital building today. Protests and counterprotests were all part of the scene. NPR's Eric Hochberg has the story from Columbia, South Carolina.

Federal, state and local authorities are preparing for the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, and attempting to prevent repeats of the kinds of protest demonstrations that stopped meetings of the World Trade Organization in Seattle last December. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports from Philadelphia.

Alex talks about next weekend's hula dance at the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana. The Pit is the hole left after an incredible amount of copper ore had been extracted by the Anaconda Company and ARCO.

Combing through the archives, Erin Overbey found that the print publication resembles "Southern country clubs circa 1950," in which barely any writers and editors of color or women are represented.

Chadwick/Rovner: Host Alex Chadwick speaks with NPR's Julie Rovner about health care happenings on Capitol Hill this week.

NPR's senior news analyst Dan Schorr reviews the week's news.

Vermont Public Radio's Steve Young reports on Vermont's new groundbreaking state law which gives gay and lesbian couples almost all the rights and benefits of marriage. This morning, Young attended the civil union of two lesbians in Bennington, Vermont who were the first couple to take advantage of the law.

Who's going to get kicked off the island next? That's the question being asked at watercoolers across the country. Alex talks with Weekend Edition entertainment critic Elvis Mitchell about the media phemonenon that is CBS's Survivor.