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The Confederate battle flag was retired from the dome of South Carolina's state capital building today. Protests and counterprotests were all part of the scene. NPR's Eric Hochberg has the story from Columbia, South Carolina.

Late-night talk show hosts, Saturday Night Live cast members and others are honoring the Canadian comedian, who died Tuesday.

Alex talks about next weekend's hula dance at the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana. The Pit is the hole left after an incredible amount of copper ore had been extracted by the Anaconda Company and ARCO.

Vermont Public Radio's Steve Young reports on Vermont's new groundbreaking state law which gives gay and lesbian couples almost all the rights and benefits of marriage. This morning, Young attended the civil union of two lesbians in Bennington, Vermont who were the first couple to take advantage of the law.

Federal, state and local authorities are preparing for the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, and attempting to prevent repeats of the kinds of protest demonstrations that stopped meetings of the World Trade Organization in Seattle last December. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports from Philadelphia.

Combing through the archives, Erin Overbey found that the print publication resembles "Southern country clubs circa 1950," in which barely any writers and editors of color or women are represented.

It's the first Saturday of the month and host Jacki Lyden and writer Paul Auster bring you the National Story Project from Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. Interested in submitting a story? Send your stories to: PMB 206 123 7th Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11215. You can also email your submission to NationalStoryProject@npr.org. And for more information on the National Story Project and to read this month's stories please visit the National Story Project area.

Jacki Lyden talks with Elizabeth Abbott, author of A History of Celibacy: From Athena to Elizabeth I, Leonardo da Vinci, Florence Nightingale, Gandhi, and Cher. Abbott reveals what caused and still causes people to give up sex . Although required by some religions, celibacy was undertaken as a choice primarily throughout history for social and economic reasons. (Scribner ISBN 0-684-84943-7)

An intern accused a well-known TV anchor of forcibly kissing her. In a ruling this week, a Beijing court found that it could not determine whether sexual harassment had occurred.

NPR's senior news analyst Dan Schorr reviews the week's news.