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Daniel talks with Rasheed Khalidi, professor of Middle East History at the University of Chicago and Janet Dates, Dean of Communications at Howard University in Washington D.C. They'll discuss how certain ethnic groups tend to be either credited or blamed for certain events and how the media helps perpetuate stereotypes.

NPR White House correspondent Mara Liasson reports n progress made at the bi-partisian "work-session" on Welfare Reform hat took place yesterday in Washington, D.C.

2: From the hip-hop group, PM Dawn, PRINCE BE. The duo consists of PRINCE BE (Attrell Cordes) and his brother J.C. the Eternal (Jarrett Cordes). One reviewer writes of them, "the duo effortlessly blends disparate elements -- balladeering and rapping, samples and live orchestration -- into gorgeous, wide-screen tableaux of sound. They also write terrific songs, from galloping melodies. . . to exquisite forlorn ballads." Their new album is "Jesus Wept" (Gee Street, Island Records).

Host Liane Hansen visits the Edmund Burke School in Washington .C. to sit in on a discussion between Russell Banks, author of the new novel, ULE OF THE BONE (HarperCollins), and a group of 16 and 17 year-old American iterature students. Banks wants to find out from these students if he has ccurately portrayed the world of the book's main character, a 14-year old unaway.

THIS WEEK, CHILE'S SUPREME COURT UPHELD THE CONVICTIONS AND PRISON TERMS OF THE TWO CHILEAN SECRET POLICE OFFICIALS WHO ENGINEERED THE CAR BOMBING ASSASINATION OF ORLANDO LETELIER (leh-TEL-e-er), AN OPPONENT OF CHILE'S FORMER MIITARY GOVERNMENT, IN 1976 ON THE STREETS OF WASHINGTON, D.C.'S EMBASSY ROW. SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH ISABEL LETELIER, WIDOW OF ORLANDO LETELIER, IN SANTIAGO, CHILE.

Michael visits the Library of Congress here in Washington D.C. On display thru the Fourth of July weekend are the actual drafts of the Decleration of Independance made by thomas Jefferson. It's the first time the actual pieces of paper, corrections and all, have been shown in public. He also talks with History professor Joseph Ellis of Mt. Holyoke College about what Jefferson thought of all the tinkering that happend with HIS version of the Decleration of Independance.

The much-anticipated Massachussetts Museum of Contemporary Art has opened in North Adams with an installation by former Talking Head David Byrne. MassMOCA has been in the works for more than ten years. It takes over an old electronics factory (before that it was a textile mill - the buildings date back to the 19th century) that closed leaving 4000 townspeople out of work. While other rust belt towns have pinned hopes for economic revival on gambling...North Adams is counting on tourism fueled by cutting edge art. Charlene Scott, of member station W-F-C-R, reports.

NPR'S DAVID MOLPUS REPORTS ON OSEOLA (oh-see-OH-lah) McCARTY OF HATTIESBURG (HAT-eez-berg), MISSISSIPPI, WHO IS BEING HONORED TONIGHT AT A DINNER OF THE CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS IN WASHINGTON, D.C. MS. McCARTY, WHO DROPPED OUT OF SCHOOL IN THE 6TH GRADE, IS FUNDING SCHOLARSHIPS AT HER HOMETOWN UNIVERSITY WITH PREFERENCE GIVEN TO AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN FINANCIAL NEED...A GIFT OF AT LEAST 150-THOUSAND DOLLARS COMING FROM A WOMAN WHO SPENT 75 OF HER 86 YEARS CLEANING AND IRONING OTHER PEOPLES' CLOTHES.

SIMON/BERNAYS: THE "FATHER OF PUBLIC RELATIONS" AND NEPHEW OF SIGMUND FREUD, EDWARD BERNAYS, DIED THIS WEEK AT THE AGE OF 103. SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH SUZANNE ROSHWALB, PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATIONS AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN WASHINGTON, D.C., WHO IS CURRENTLY WRITING A BIOGRAPHY OF EDWARD BERNAYS.

The Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut is taking egal action to defend the state's public defenders. Pippin Ross of member tation W-F-C-R in Amherst, Massachusetts reports on the legal issues being aised to protest the poor working conditions imposed on the state-paid defense ttorneys.