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NPR's Ted Clark looks back on the Camp David summit, assessing how close the Israeli and Palestinian leaders came to reaching agreement on key issues.

NPR's Phillip Martin reports on the National Urban League's annual assessment of African American progress. The "State of Black America" report shows home ownership at record highs, unemployment at all-time lows and surging college enrollment, especially among black women. But a disproportionate number of African American children live in poverty, more black men are imprisoned, and more black people die of AIDS, cancer and other diseases. Conversely, the reports says the black middle class continues to grow and the educated young experience fewer barriers than earlier generations.

Republican George Bush may not have chosen a rock star for his runningmate, but with former defense secretary Richard Cheney, he's found a man with rock solid Washington credentials. While even Democrats praise for Cheney for his calm and competence, they say the choice presents Democrat Al Gore with many opportunities. NPR's Anthony Brooks reports.

Guest host Frank Stasio talks to Weekend Edition commentator and historian Douglas Brinkley about the life of Rosa Parks. Little else is known about her life, apart from the historic day in Montgomery, Alabama, when her arrest sparked the modern civil rights movement. But the years leading up to that moment prove to be even more indicative of her struggle for racial equality. Brinkley's biography of Rosa Parks is titled, Rosa Parks. (Penguin Books)

NPR's Diplomatic Correspondent Ted Clark reports President Clinton is preparing for separate meetings at the UN tomorrow with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, in hopes of finding a way to resolve the impasse in the peace process.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Electric Waco Chair, the new recording by the Chicago based group The Waco Brothers. One of the band's leaders is Jon Langford, formerly of the British group the Mekons.

Commentator Carol Wasserman writes about a local delicacy near her home in Wareham, Massachusetts: white peaches, and the human interactions they can bring.

NPR News Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr speaks with Bill Ballenger, editor of the newsletter Inside Michigan Politics, and Eric Rademacher, co-director of the independent Ohio Poll at the University of Cincinnati about the presidential campaign in battleground states.

Liane visits Rollie Noem, director of Custer State Park in the Black Hills of South Dakota where a wildfire 12 years ago destroyed 17,000 acres of forestland. As fires in the Black Hills and around the country blaze through millions of acres of land this summer, Noem talks about how the fire-ravaged area of his park has recovered in the past dozen years.

NPR's Andy Bowers reports from Idaho, where the civil trial of a white separatist leader begins today. Richard Butler of Aryan Nation is accused of provoking a physical assault; he claims he's an advocate of nonviolence and isn't responsible.