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Two friends, one black, one white, produced a short play about Carolyn Bryant, the white woman who accused Emmett Till of whistling at her. Since his murder, racial tensions exist six decades later.

Darius Rucker will embark on a tour this summer with the band Hootie & the Blowfish. He also released his country album "Carolyn's Boy" this past fall.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a hallenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Carolyn Brelsford, a eacher of mathematics from Houston, Texas. Her public radio station is KUHF.

Carolyn and Mary Jane DeZurik grew up on a Minnesota farm, but they rose to musical fame in the 1930s. Their special talents included yodeling and imitations of birds and barnyard animals. Their story is told again by writer John Biguenet in the music issue of Oxford American magazine.

Carolyn Johnson of Nebraska Public Radio reports on an effort in the state to built one of the world's largest networks of cosmic ray detectors. A physics professor is putting the detectors on the roofs of all 314 Nebraska high schools to help students get hands on science experience.

All summer, Captain Fatty Goodlander has been sending Weekend Edition Sunday stories from his travels on board his boat, The Wild Card. In this report, Goodlander talks about throwing a party for his wife.

to First Lady Hillary Clinton before the Senate Whitewater committee. Carolyn Huber talked about how she found documents dating back to Mrs. Clinton's partnership at a Little Rock law firm in the 1980's.

Carolyn Johnsen, of Nebraska Public Radio reports from Omaha that residents of Boys Town vote today and tomorrow on whether to change the name of the famous refuge for young people. Half of the 33,000 residents are girls. Father Flannigan started his Boys' Home in 1913, and the name was changed to Boys Town in 1926. Girls were first admitted in 1979.

In New York's Fourth Congressional District, an interesting race is shaping up for the seat currently held by freshman Republican Dan Frisa (FREE-zuh). Carolyn McCarthy, whose husband was murdered in the 1993 Long Island Railroad shooting, has decided to run against Frisa because of his position on gun control. NPR's Melissa Block reports.

Robert talks with Carolyn Lama, mother of a 4-year-old boy who has been recognized by monks as the reincarnation of a Tibetan spiritual leader who died in 1987. The boy, named Sonam Wangdu, will move from Seattle to Katmandu, Nepal on January 25th to be raised by monks. His mother will make periodic visits to Nepal but will continue to live in Seattle.