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The new civil rights commission chairperson, Gerald Reynolds, is a former civil rights officer at the U.S. Department of Education and now a lawyer for an electric utility in Kansas City, Mo. He talks with Frank Morris of member staton KCUR.

In his new novel Like We Care, novelist Thomas Matthews skewers hip-hop culture, the MTV generation and the corporate world that markets to them. Matthews tells NPR's Sheilah Kast he hopes his novel will alert parents to the ugly side of the music their children listen to.

NPR's Gloria Hillard reports on the efforts of a group of volunteers in Burbank, Calif., to prepare their float for the Rose Parade on New Year's Day.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden has a performance chat with American music icon Willie Nelson. Ludden caught up with Nelson while he was on tour promoting his new album It Will Always Be.

NPR's Sheilah Kast speaks with NPR's Philip Reeves, reporting on tsunami devastation on the eastern coast of Sri Lanka. The most urgent needs are for clean water and medical supplies as people try to recover from last Sunday's disaster.

Jamaica's government and police have been accused of permitting, and even condoning, anti-gay harassment and even violence. The island nation's leading gay activist was murdered last summer as Human Rights Watch was preparing a report on the alleged discrimination against gays, lesbians and those with HIV. Correspondent Cheryl Devall speaks with Rebecca Schleifer, a researcher with Human Rights Watch, and with "Nick," a gay man in the capital city of Kingston who says he's felt the hate first-hand.

Results from Iraq's Jan. 30 national assembly elections are almost final, and it appears the Shiite Muslim alliance received about 48 percent of the vote. The Kurdish parties won about 26 percent. The Shiite coalition victory falls well short of the two-thirds majority required to elect a presidential council, which in turn will select a prime minister.

The international Kyoto Protocol to combat global warming takes effect Wednesday. The United States has not signed onto it, but countries in Europe have. Carbon trader Dirk Forrister is helping them figure out how to buy and sell carbon credits.

Michele Norris talks with Evan Hendricks, editor and publisher of Privacy Times and author of Credit Scores and Credit Reports, about why people should be concerned about identity theft and what they can do to avoid it.

Boyden Gray is the chairman and founder of the group Committee for Justice, formed to promote conservative judicial nominees. Gray was instrumental in getting Clarence Thomas appointed to the Supreme Court. Wednesday, we heard from Ralph Neas of the liberal group People for the American Way.