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Chapin Carpenter - Daniel talks with Country Music Singer-Songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter in our performance studio. Carpenter has won five Grammy Awards and numerous other awards for her music. Carpenter, who is from the Washington D.C. area, will sing a few songs from her latest C-D called "Stones In The Road." It's on the Columbia label.

Robert talks with Peter Lewis, whose car recently was stolen from his driveway in Washington, D.C. Lewis announced a $5,000 reward in the Washington Post, to anyone who could provide information about his 1997 Ford Expedition. With some tips and the help of a group of friends, Lewis found his car.

The budget of the District of Columbia has been in trouble for years, and President Clinton has made a proposal to help the city in his new federal budget. Under the plan, about three-point-nine billion dollars of federal money would be spent on Washington, D-C over the next five years. Nearly half of that money would go to expand, renovate and operate the city's prisons. NPR's Kathleen Schlach reports on the problems that led to the District's prison crisis.

racial Rally - NPR's Jon Greenberg reports on a rally today in Washington D.C. where demonstrators are calling on the US govt to change the racial category on the census for the year 2000.

- NPR's John Nielsen reports on the crash of an Air Force C-130 cargo transport plane which was leaving Jackson Hole, Wyoming, as President Clinton ended his family vacation in the area.

It took the Sugarhill Gang, and a song called "Rapper's Delight," to get the developing hip-hop art form on the radio.

who has discovered evidence that Amazonian women did exist, contrary to belief that ancient female warrior societies are mythological. Davis-Kimball's excavations have led her into central Asia, where she has found so-called Amazonian remains that date back to 600 B.C.

- Daniel talks with Bruce Brock, a world champion auctioneer. Brock was giving lessons to passers-by at the annual Festival of American Folklife going on here in Washington D.C.

The Christian Coalition held its annual convention in Washington D.C. today and Bob Dole campaigned for votes there. Kathleen Schalk reports during his appearence today, Pat Robertson encouraged Dole to campaign on a morality theme and insisted that tactic would win the election for Republicans.

Liane Hansen is joined by Hugh Price, President of the ational Urban League, and syndicated columnist Nat Hentoff, for a discussion bout the state of race relations in America. The discussion comes on the one ear anniversary of the Million Man March in Washington, D.C. and the "not uilty" verdict in the first O.J. Simpson trial.