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Sweet Honey in the Rock is a Grammy Award-winning, African-American female a cappella ensemble. Ed Gordon talks to founding member Carol Maillard about the group's unique sound, which is rooted in the hymns, gospel music and spirituals of the black church, as well as jazz and blues. The group's latest CD is Raise Your Voice.

Over the past decade, hundreds of thousands of foreign-born high-tech workers have come to the United States thanks to the H-1B visa guest worker program. A new album mixes Indian and Western musical influences to take a lighthearted look at the techie immigrant's life in America.

Residents of Dover, Penn., voted out almost every member of their local school board last week. Eight people ran against a policy requiring the mention of intelligent design in classrooms, and all of them won. Steve Inskeep talks to one of the newly elected board members, Bernadette Reinking.

This week, Bruce Springsteen's album Born to Run gets the box-set treatment, in a special edition marking the record's 30th anniversary. The three-disc set includes a remastered version of the seminal album that created legions of Springsteen fans with its title track and songs like" Thunder Road" and "Backstreets."

Alan Cheuse reviews The Diviners, a satire by Rick Moody about an independent movie company trying to produce a television mini-series.

Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran reads from Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita, which was published 50 years ago this month.

Rigoberto Alpizar died Wednesday after being shot by federal air marshals at Miami International Airport. Willoughby Mariano, a reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, discusses the life of Alpizar, who lived in Maitland, Fla., with his wife.

A live studio audience joins in a conversation with leading thinkers on the lessons Hurricane Katrina offers, about race and class in American society.

The arrest this week of a Nigerian warlord from the oil-producing Niger Delta has started a wave of violence on the streets of Port Harcourt.

For Patti Brennan, the decision to have her son, Conor Murphy, came in a flash. And there has been no room for regrets, either. But it meant a lifestyle change -- and a decision about who would look after Conor.