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As part of our series on the legacy of the Supreme Court's 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, NPR's Ina Jaffe explores an integrated school in Los Angeles. The ruling's desegregation mandate is challenged today in districts like Los Angeles, where 90 percent of public school students are minorities. But in places like the Sherman Oaks magnet school, it's possible to find blacks and whites, Latinos and Asians sitting side-by-side getting a high quality education.

Connie Roberts works the graveyard shift as a waitress/cook at a Maryland diner. The shift leaves Roberts with little time for her family -- and less to plan her future. NPR's Noah Adams continues his series on Americans working low-wage jobs with a profile of Roberts.

NPR's Tavis Smiley talks with trombone player and graduate student Delfeayo Marsalis, the brother of famous jazz artists Wynton and Branford Marsalis.

Katie Richardson has cystic fibrosis, and is pregnant with her third child. Though her first two children are healthy, the new baby could inherit the disease. But the Richardsons have chosen not to find out. NPR's Joe Palca hosts the second of a series of conversations about genetic testing.

Former counter-terrorism official Richard Clarke gives testimony to the commission investigating U.S. policies before the Sept. 11 attacks, saying George W. Bush's administration did not give high priority to terrorist threats in its first seven months despite his urgings. Hear NPR's Pam Fessler, NPR's Robert Siegel and former National Security Agency head Lt. Gen. William Odom.

A roadside bomb and a rocket attack kill at least two people in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. And a bomb explodes in Baghdad, injuring at least two Iraqi civilians in a nearby SUV. Hear NPR's Cara Gerhardt.

Nearly 2 million people were laid off in 2003, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. One of them was the husband of commentator Firoozeh Dumas. She is the author of the book Funny in Farsi.

Insects are usually near the bottom on the list of species given protection from extinction. Yet, like the vertebrates, they're losing habitat to development. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports on a campaign to give the spineless their due.

Five U.S. soldiers are killed in a roadside bombing west of Baghdad. In Fallujah, four civilian foreigners -- including one American -- are killed when insurgents ambush their vehicles in Fallujah, a Sunni stronghold. Cheering crowds drag the corpses through the streets and hang them from a bridge. Hear NPR's Ivan Watson.

NPR's Martin Kaste continues Morning Edition's week-long series on Latin American cities with a report on the perennial housing shortage in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In Latin America's biggest megalopolis, as many as 3 million of the estimated 18 million residents cannot find or afford housing. So, they take over abandoned buildings and set up outdoor camps.