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A few weeks after Pfc. Jesse Givens was killed in Iraq, his family received a farewell letter from him -- and the son he would never know was born. One year later, Givens' widow seeks to help her young sons remember their father.

Democratic Sen. John Kerry on Friday took his presidential campaign to Westminster College in the Missouri town of Fulton. The college was the site of the famous "Iron Curtain" speech by Winston Churchill in 1946 and, earlier this week, of an anti-Kerry speech by Vice President Dick Cheney. Kerry said America faces a "moment of truth" in Iraq, and he used the occasion to call on President Bush to broaden the international coalition in Iraq. NPR's David Welna reports

Patterson's book Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and its Troubled Legacy looks at the historic Supreme Court case and its aftermath. Patterson also wrote Grand Expectations: The United States 1945-1974.

FX's new series "Under the Banner of Heaven" dramatizes the very real murder of a young woman and her child in a Mormon community.

Activist Heather Booth and the Jane Collective provided thousands of women with abortions before Roe v. Wade.

John Ydstie reviews the week's news with Andrew Sullivan who writes for the New York Times Magazine.

The program promises to give out $500 monthly cash payments to 5,000 low-income households for a year, with no strings attached.

In 1951, 16-year-old Barbara Johns led students in a rural Virginia county on an historic walkout to protest overcrowding at their all-black school. The resulting court case became part of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling 50 years ago in which the Supreme Court declared segregation unconstitutional. NPR's Juan Williams has a two-part report on the legacy of events at Moton High School in Prince Edward County, Va. It's part of NPR's series on the 50th anniversary of the Brown ruling.

Scott Simon reviews the week's news with Andrew Sullivan of The New Republic.

The Swedish actor describes himself as "quite a mellow guy." Playing a Viking warrior in the film The Northman gave Skarsgård a chance to tap into his animalistic nature.