VPR's Mitch Wertlieb talks with author Bruce Watson about his book "Freedom Summer" that recounts the summer of  1964 when 700 civil rights activists traveled to Mississippi to help end a century of Jim Crow laws.

Bayard Rustin was a pivotal figure in the civil rights movement that you may not have heard of. He counseled Martin Luther King on the value of non-violence and helped engineer the March on Washington. Al Letson tells Rustin's story Saturday at 4.

There's a widespread perception among Vermont's minority population that police use racial profiling as a key factor in making traffic stops.