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David Person reports on the origins of the song, "Lift Every Voice and Sing". Written in 1900, the song is now called the Black National Anthem. This story is part of the ongoing series, Present at the Creation.

Attorney General Merrick Garland says the United States is assisting efforts to examine potential war crimes in Ukraine as evidence of violence against civilians mounts.

A six-part NPR News series on changing attitudes toward immigration in the wake of Sept. 11 continues. On Morning Edition, Eric Westervelt reports on the relationship between the INS and local police.

Radio Diaries and All Things Considered continue their multi-part radio tribute to jobs that are slowly disappearing, celebrating people who keep alive an older way of life. This week, a profile of Selma Koch, one of the last old-style bra fitters. Her shop's motto? "We know your size."

Liane Hansen speaks with composer John Morton, whose new CD, Outlier features new music for music boxes (on Innova Recordings, available at www.innovarecordings.com). Morton has modified the mechanisms and run the sound through electronic processing, and works with other musicians who play traditional instruments on the CD. John Morton demonstrates his boxes for us in NPR's Studio 4A.

Singer-songwriter Sally Taylor talks about her song "Victim." Sally Taylor has followed the profession of her parents, James Taylor and Carly Simon, and she's now released her third CD. It's called Shotgun.

This week marks 100 years since Guglielmo Marconi's first trans-Atlantic broadcast from Newfoundland to Cornwall, England. Lisa joins NPR's Joe Palca for a little experiment to remember the first dit-dit-dit's of Morse Code sent as electro-magnetic waves crossed the ocean.

In theory, a beer poured at nearly 12,000 feet above sea level would have quite a head on it -- far more foam than at sea level. Intrepid NPR science reporter Joe Palca offers a Morning Edition report on the results of an experiment that began in the Andes Mountains and concluded in Washington, D.C.

Genetically modified crops have roared into North American fields, with farmers increasingly turning to soybeans, cotton and corn engineered to resist pests and chemicals. But the technology has been met with a mounting wave of protest. On Morning Edition, a talk with NPR's Dan Charles about this saga of scientific breakthrough, intrigue and competition. (Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future of Food, is published by Perseus Books; ISBN: 0738202916.)

Linda Wertheimer takes us on a career profile of the late Robert Trout, veteran broadcaster and All Things Considered commentator. We learn about Trout's beginnings at a small Northern Virginia radio station as a janitor/announcer, and follow his career through his rise to covering presidential events and World War II, anchoring the fledgling CBS News broadcasts. His on-air calm steered CBS through the war, and his reassuring presence brought America some of the biggest stories of the day. Fortunately, most of what he did survives in recordings. This profile is an excerpt from a forthcoming NPR two-hour special due out early next year.