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Musician Milt Hinton snapped more than 60,000 photos in his life, providing an insider's view of jazz and 20th-century America. His work is the subject of a new documentary called Keeping Time.

NPR special correspondent Susan Stamberg asks artists to select a piece of music that they'd like the country to hear right now.

Organizers also said that Russians and Belarusians who live elsewhere will still be able to run, just not under their countries' flags. The marathon and 5k are planned for the weekend of April 16.

On April 15, 1947, a young Black man named Jackie Robinson took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers and officially broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball.

Linda talks with Andy Bey, a singer and piano player. Bey has been singing and playing boogie-woogie since he was a child. He became known for his powerful voice and piano work with Horace Silver and Max Roach. After a 20 year absence from recording, he has released a CD of ballads and standards.

On Read Across America Day, Robert Siegel and Linda Wertheimer read the children's book Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss.

Daniel travels to Cambridge, Massachusetts to visit two cooking legends, Julia Child and Jacques Pepin. Although they are two of the most accomplished cooks in the food world, they have some advice for the rest of us. Namely, don't take cooking so seriously! They say that cookbooks, including their latest Julia and Jacques, Cooking at Home (Knopf, September 1999), should be used as a guide, but do what you want in your own kitchen. While in Julia's kitchen, Daniel gets to try Caesar Salad Julia's Style, as well as a Spanish potato omelet, or "tortilla."

Andrew Goldstein was convicted this week for pushing Kendra Webdale, a woman he never met, into the New York City subway tracks and killing her. His lawyers coaxed him off his medication to show the jury how mentally ill he was, but that wasn't enough for an insanity verdict. NPR's Joanne Silberner reports that this case highlights the difficulties the criminal justice system has in dealing with mental illness.

Daisy Anderson and Alberta Martin are Civil War widows. Both were in their early 20's when they married octagenarian veterans. Daisy's husband was an ex-slave who fought for the Union; Alberta's man fought for the confederacy. Producer Joe Richman has a portrait of two women reflecting on history and looking back at their lives on the anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.

In the first of a five-part series on South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, NPR's Charlayne Hunter-Gault talks with victims of apartheid-era abuses who are frustrated with the Commission at the end of its two-and-a-half years of work. More than 20,000 victims submitted statements, but only a few got the chance to testify in public. Victims were promised reparations, but many have not yet received any money. Some feel the Truth Commission acted more speedily to rule on amnesty for perpetrators of political crimes than it did in responding to victims' needs.