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Recent polling shows American farmers are increasingly frustrated with the Trump administration's policies.

We want to share personal stories of discrimination in the United States as part of our deep dive into how Americans treat one another and how Americans perceive the way others treat them.

MONDAY'S MARCH, AND THE LEADERSHIP OF ONE OF ITS CONVENERS, THE NATION OF ISLAM'S MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN, HAS SPARKED DEBATE ACROSS AN ESPECIALLY RACE-SENSITIZED NATION. WEEKEND EDITION'S DANIEL SCHORR DISCUSSED THE MARCH AND ITS MEANING WITH TWO WELL-KNOWN AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMENTATORS: RONALD WALTERS, CHAIRMAN OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY'S POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT, AND GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND AMERICAN CULTURE ROGER WILKINS.

NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports on the diplomatic tangle with China over its failure to curb counterfeiting of American intellectual property. Computer software, CDs, and numerous other easily copied goods continue to pour out of China a year after the Chinese government agreed to crack down on this trade. American companies say they're losing billions, but they don't speak with one voice. Microsoft, for example, wants sanctions, but Boeing fears the Chinese will retaliate by buying planes elsewhere.

The first American to win a gold medal in weightlifting in 40 years hardly fits the sport's image. She's a 105-pound former gymnast named Tara Nott. As NPR's reports, Nott was awarded the gold when it was stripped from a Bulgarian lifter who tested positive for a banned diuretic. In other Olympic action, Americans won twin gold medals today when they tied in swimming's mad dash, the 50 meters, breaking a run of victories by Dutchman Pieter van den Hoogenband.

From member station WXXI in Rochester, New York Brenda Tremblay reports on a new biography about Martha Matilda Harper, one of the most successful and innovative female entrepreneurs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is credited with inventing the concept of the Franchise. (3:09) Martha Matilda Harper and the American Dream : How One Woman Changed the Face of Modern Business (Writing American Women by Jane R. Plitt is published by Syracuse Univ Pr (Trade); ISBN: 08156

1: Historian DAN T. CARTER. His book, Scottsboro was the winner of the Bancroft Prize in History for the best book in American History. CARTER's newest book is a biography of George Wallace, The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, The Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics. (Simon & Schuster). In the book CARTER contends that Wallace paved the way for the conservatism that is now a big part of Republican politics. CARTER is Kenan Professor of History at Emory University.(THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW).

Most Americans looking for a place to vacation in the summer go to the mountains, or the sea shore, or a lake... Someplace where the scenery is beautiful and the weather is cool. Another place that's packed every summer: Death Valley National Park on the California-Nevada border... usually the hottest place in the country. This time of year, the overwhelming majority of visitors come from Europe..... and they consider Death Valley a don't-miss part of their tour of the American West. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports.

Robert discusses the history of chicken with John Steele Gordon, a contributing editor for "American Heritage." Gordon wrote "The Chicken Story," an article in the September issue of American Heritage. Gordon says chicken was considered a luxurious meal as recently as 60 years ago and cost about 10 dollars a pound in today's terms. Industrialization brought chicken prices down. Now there are eight chickens for every person in the US.

A new law says money coming from the frozen assets of foreign countries must be released to victims of terror attacks if they win damage awards in court. A federal judge heard the claims of Americans seeking Iraqi assets this week, and various other Americans likely will try to claim some of the money. NPR's Libby Lewis reports.