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NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports on the closing of Sumner lementary school in Topeka, Kansas. The Sumner school was the focal point of he 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case that became the landmark decision eading to national integration.

- On his 82nd birthday, Frankie Manning reminisces about how he came up with a new step for the Lindy Hop, a popular dance created by Shorty Snowden in 1927. Manning created his dance move in 1935 at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem.

Commentator Mickey Edwards says instead of all this fussing about what to put in the GOP platform, why not just drop it altogether. Hardly anyone reads it, no one votes based on it.

Scott talks with Mark Goodman, Executive Director of the Student Press Law Center in Roslyn, VA about a recent incident at Louisianna State University where some minority students threw out all the copies of the free student paper because of articles it was running on the Ku Klux Klan.

NPR's Derek Reveron reports on yesterday's crash of a ValuJet DC-9 in he Everglades of Florida. The cause of the crash is still being investigated, ut there are reports that smoke filled the plane's cockpit just before the jet isappeared from the nearest airport's radar screen. There were l09 passengers n the plane, and as yet, no signs of survivors.

Eighty-six would-be summer blockbusters will be coming out between now and Labor Day. Critic Bob Mondello has a selective preview.

From WHYY, NPR's Eric Westervelt reports on nearly 100 drug users who were rushed to Philadelphia hospitals overnight, after takeing a lethal form of heroin known as "homicide." Nearly a dozen remain in critical condition today.

David D'Arcy profiles film director Arthur Penn. The director of such classics as "Bonnie and Clyde" and "The Miracle Worker" has come out with a new movie.

Scott and NPR's Daniel Schorr review the weeks news.

Scott speaks with reporter Marius Benson, in Pretoria, about South Africa's adoption, this week, of a new constitution.