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100 years ago, Booker T. Washington's autobiography, Up from Slavery was published. Soon after that, another dominant black intellectual of the day, W.E.B. DuBois offered a differing view on how African-Americans should define their new role in society. Liane Hansen speaks with historian Douglas Brinkley and DuBois biographer David Levering Lewis about the legacy of Up from Slavery.

Liane speaks with Fred Barnes, executive editor of the Weekly Standard and Doyle McManus, Washington bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times, about President Bush's agenda. This past week, foreign policy issues, tax cuts, the enviornment and the economy commanded the President's attention.

The Peace Corps is experiencing a sudden jump in popularity in San Francisco thanks to a rash of Internet business failures. Former dot-com employees have helped double the number of people attending the Peace Corps' informational meetings in the area. Noah Adams talks with Dennis McMahon, public affairs specialist for the Peace Corps.

Commentator Marion Winik says today's low unemployment rate (relatively speaking) can mean bad service. Knowing you can always find another job means never having to say "Can I help you?"

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr, just home from Havana, gives his first impressions of last week's Cuban-American conference held there analyzing the Bay of Pigs invasion.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on the sharp increase in Americans reporting some Indian ancestry. In most of the states released by the Census Bureau so far, the number of people reporting they have a mix of Indian and some other ancestry is far out of proportion with those reporting they are Indian alone.

Noah Adams has a summary of some of the other news on today's program.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from Indonesia that female vice president Megowati Sukarnoputri may have a second shot at the presidency of this mostly male-run country.

Commentator Russell Roberts says if President Bush wants to convince Americans of the need for his tax cut, he should rent an old Marx Brothers movie and brush up on Groucho's sales-pitch.

Son of actor Richard Harris, Jared has acted in theater and on the big screen. He's appeared in movies like I Shot Andy Warhol, Happiness, Sunday, Smoke, and VH1's Two of Us, in which he plays Beatle John Lennon. He talks to us today about his newest movie called Shadow Magic, which is set in China. Harris plays the man that brought the motion picture projector to China. He lives in New York City.