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Former Police Commissioner of Philadelphia, WILLIE WILLIAMS. He's gone on to head Los Angeles's police force, where he replaced the controversial chief Daryl Gates. WILLIAMS took over last summer and his challenge has been to improve the relationship between the police and the community, and to build-up morale within the force. WILLIAMS has also had to prepare the department for possible further disturbances in the community, in light of the April riots over the Rodney King verdict. Two court cases coming up could ignite more rioting: the Federal civil rights trial of the four white officers acquitted of beating Rodney King, and the trial of three black men accused of beating white truck driver Reginald Denny during the April riot. Yesterday jurors for the federal trial of the officers were sworn in. Opening statements in the trial are expected to take place tomorrow.

The New Zealand country singer plays "When I Was A Young Girl" for KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic.

William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, offers his reactions to the Sept. 11 commission report, and discusses with NPR's Scott Simon whether there is the political will in Washington in an election year to act upon the report's recommendations.

Seattle-based pianist William Chapman Nyaho joins Performance Today for a Black History Month celebration. A native of Ghana, he specializes in keyboard music written by composers of the African Diaspora.

From the moment we pan out of a literal tiny desk diorama, a jolt of energy leaps from Paramore's Hayley Williams. Her home band includes Julien Baker and Becca Mancari.

During a stellar career in which she's straddled the boundary between rock and country, Williams has often sung about love gone wrong. That's certainly the case in "Jailhouse Tears," only the bad-love scenario here comes with a twist: Her imperfect man, played by Elvis Costello, gets to answer back in the song.

Director of the Jamestown Excavation Project about a new archaeological find -- Jamestown, Virginia -- the first permanent English settlement in America.

The widow of a slain Mississippi civil rights leader Medgar Evars will help open the inaugural ceremony Monday. President Obama has selected activist Myrlie Evers-Williams to deliver the invocation. She's the first woman and lay person to have the honor.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams about her new memoir Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You.

For his second solo album, The Smashing Pumpkins visionary worked with renowned producer Rick Rubin. The result is a breathtaking balance between intimacy and imagination.

The husband-and-wife roots duo performs a set of original songs and beloved covers.

Author William F. Buckley Jr., regarded by some as the father of the modern conservative movement, died Wednesday morning at his Connecticut home. Buckley founded the journal National Review in 1955, and was known also as a television host and novelist.

The NBC News anchor admits his story of being on a helicopter hit by enemy fire in Iraq was untrue. The question is why the veteran newsman's tale took on new — and false — elements in recent years.

For her Tiny Desk (home) concert, Yasmin Williams keeps the background sparse to foreground her inventive playing.

Television talk show host Wendy Williams is known for pushing the envelope and dishing the dirt on celebs. But her rise to fame wasn't always glamorous. Host Michel Martin speaks with Williams about her career, battle with addiction and new book Ask Wendy.

about his new book " >Haunted Places" that lists more than 2,000 places in the country widely believed to be either haunted, associated with supernatural occurrences or UFO landings.

The daughter of a literature professor and blues enthusiast, Williams had been marked to write powerful songs about strong characters right from the beginning. Hear an interview and in-studio performance with the roots-rock songwriter from WFUV's Claudia Marshall.

From country and klezmer to doom rock and metal, Meredith Ochs reviews three new albums from a member of country royalty.

The third album from the William Parker Quartet is named Petit Oiseau, after a character in a poem written by Parker. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead assesses whether the album — whose French title translates to "Little Bird" — takes flight.

In 1795, a young man named William-Henry Ireland signed a tattered piece of paper "Wm Shakespeare." It was the first of hundreds of documents that he forged and passed off as William Shakespeare originals. Doug Stewart tells his story in The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare.