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Legendary folk singer Pete Seeger talks with Scott Simon about his career. Also, hear a two-hour tribute concert featuring Natalie Merchant, Bruce Cockburn, Judy Collins and others.

Americans adopted more than 22,000 foreign-born children last year. But a number of African-American and mixed-raced babies born in the United States are being adopted by foreigners living abroad.

Commentator James Poniewozik is disappointed that ABC has cancelled plans for a new reality show, Welcome to the Neighborhood, after protests that the show is discriminatory. Poniewozik is a staff writer for Time magazine.

As a special Independence Day weekend event, Liane Hansen tests the political trivia acumen -- and wits -- of NPR editors and NPR.org columnists Ron Elving and Ken Rudin. Find 15 additional questions online.

Robert Siegel talks with Charles Fracchia, founder of the San Francisco Historical Society and author of City By the Bay: A History of San Francisco 1945 to the Present, about deadly riots that took place in San Francisco on VJ Day.

Engineers trying to get the flood water out of New Orleans face many challenges in their task. Communication is a major problem. So is transportation. The Army Corps of Engineers needs to build crude roads just to get workers to the breached sections of the levee system.

Being made to stand in a blue box painted on the sidewalk in Orlando might not be your idea of fun. But city legislators are coming up with this and other tactics to deal with what is being called "aggressive panhandling." Robert Siegel talks with Maria Foscarinis of the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty about both sides of the legal questions surrounding panhandling, civil rights, and how cities trying to improve their image are dealing with the problem.

Her critically acclaimed 1989 debut album All Hail The Queen is considered one of the best rap albums of all time, and she has starred in many movies. (This interview originally aired March 15, 1999.)

Days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall east of New Orleans, thousands are still stranded in the city. And the city's mayor has issued what he called an "Urgent SOS" for help. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is overseeing the biggest recovery operation in U.S. history.

The situation in New Orleans continues to deteriorate, with widespread flooding and looting. The evacuation of thousands of people from the Superdome in the city was halted early Thursday when shots were fired at military helicopters. There are also reports of armed carjackings.