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Music critic Jim Fusilli reviews "Casa," a new album from Japanese pianist Ryuichi (Ree-oo-ee-chee) Sakamoto (Sah-kah-moh-toh) and Jaques and Paula Morelenbaum. . It's a tribute to Brazil's bossa-nova master Antonio Carlos Jobim, recorded in Jobim's former home in Rio de Janiero. (4:00)

Daniel talks with Rhode Island governor Lincoln Almond about the status of an oil tanker that ran aground off the coast of his state Friday night. The barge is carrying more than 3 million gallons of home heating oil and has leaked more than 720 thousand gallons so far.

the 75th anniversary of the 1921 race riots. The riots resulted in dozens of deaths and the destruction of many homes and business owned by the town's prosperous black community.

A federal moratorium on evictions expired over the weekend, potentially putting millions of tenants at risk of being forced out of their homes just as delta variant infections are on the rise.

- NPR's Melissa Block reports on proposed changes to US Immigration law that would require immigration officers at the airport to decide whether or not a foreigner claiming political asylum has a legitimate case. Currently, anyone declaring political asylum at the airport or border is assigned a court date for their case. If the changes are approved, they could be put immediately on a plane and sent home.

The first residents of Celebration, Florida are moving in. The town is a development run by the Disney corporation near their theme parks. Designed to encourage community spirit and interaction between neighbors, shopping streets are within walking distance of each home and the houses have large front porches. The cost of houses range from about $200,000 to a million dollars.

Linda talks to Patricia Wells-- author of a new cookbook called "PATRICIA WELLS AT HOME IN PROVENCE." It is a book of recipes inspired by her famouhouse in France. Wells encourages cooks to use fresh ingredients and not to muck it all up. If you're cooking eggplant - she says - it should taste like eggplant!

For the second straight day, a river of Rwandan refugees is flowing out of eastern Zaire and returning to their homeland after two miserable years of exile in camps along the border. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports the refugees, mostly ethnic Hutus, no longer seem afraid to live under the rival Tutsi-led government, and government authorities are welcoming their countrymen back home.

Commentator Fawn Fitzgibbon has been a home hospice nurse for 7 years. In that time she has learned that death comes relentlessly. Cutting a life short by suicide is to surrender, she says. To live each moment, despite the limits that an illness brings, is more than to shake a fist at death; it gives meaning to the life itself, she says.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Turkey on new government efforts to shift policy toward the Kurds. A 12-year-long battle with Kurdish insurgents has created millions of homeless refugees...most of them are pouring into Turkish cities. Although the new pro-Islamic government is trying to return these refugees to their homes, the Kurds are suspicious.