Notes from America with Kai Wright
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Feb 6, 2023
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Balanced, thoughtful, and smart stories that help make some sense out of what's happening in the US today.
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How This Passover Feels Different For Many Jewish Americans
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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An Investigative Journalist Is Rocked By the ‘Inconceivable Truth’ Of His Own Identity
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Amber Ruffin Talks ‘The Wiz’ Revival, Writing for ‘Late Night,’ and Representation in Comedy
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Voter Vibe Check: Why Trump Has More Support from Black Voters Than Ever
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Comedian Bassem Youssef’s Honest Reflection on Fame, the Pressure of Representation, and What it Means to be American
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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David Alan Grier Is Still Hitting Career Highs, More Than 40 Years After His Debut
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Voter Vibe Check: Democratic Voters Are Torn Over Biden’s Gaza Policy
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Kai Wright Presents Blindspot Episode 5: What If I Could Have Grown Old With My Brother?
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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How Actor Danielle Brooks 'Already Won' Before The Oscars
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Kai Wright Presents Blindspot Episode 4: Respectability Politics and the AIDS Crisis
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Are We Really Having a 'Migrant Crisis?' Depends Who You Ask.
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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We Could End AIDS. So Why Are People Still Dying?
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Leading with Love: Care and Compassion in the Early Days of AIDS
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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It's Giving ‘Hell No’ — Danielle Brooks On Becoming ‘The Color Purple’s’ Sofia
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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A Palestinian-American Victim of American Gun Violence Becomes A Reluctant Poster Child
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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Kai Wright Presents Blindspot Episode 3: ‘Women Don’t Get AIDS, They Just Die From It’
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Intercultural Relationships Are More Common, But Are They Less Taboo?
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Kai Wright Presents Blindspot Episode 2: If I Didn’t Have HIV, I Wouldn’t Have Met You
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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Voter Vibe Check: Anti-Trump Conservatives On Republican Party Politics In 2024
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Kai Wright Presents Blindspot Episode 1: Mourning In America
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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What A Segregated Mental Asylum Can Tell Us About Health Care in the US Today
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Kai Wright Hosts Blindspot: The Plague In The Shadows
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Doom. Denial. ‘Hopium.’ What About Climate Action?
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Reclaiming Woke: Celebrating The Legacy Of Martin Luther King Jr. Live At The Apollo
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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What the Ozempic Craze Means for Our Personal Health
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Raoul Peck Fights for Justice With His Movies
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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I Was A Child of Dread
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Why NYC’s Move to Privatize Public Housing Could Impact the Rest of the Country
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Remembering Rapper Prodigy As A Cure For Sickle Cell Emerges
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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What the New Cure for Sickle Cell Disease Really Means
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Bias in A.I. and the Risks of Continued Development, with Dr. Joy Buolamwini
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Out of hope? Maybe stop for a sandwich and a song.
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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How Boston’s Big Dig built our expectations of American infrastructure
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Nikki Giovanni and Kimberly McGlonn on space travel, sustainable fashion and Black liberation
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Black Lives Matter, 10 years later
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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‘It’s Worse Than Ever’
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Imminent Danger Ep 3: One Doctor and a Trail of Injured Women
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Can Osage Citizens Revive Fairfax?
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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We Don't Talk About Leonard: Episode 3
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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The View From Gaza
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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We Don't Talk About Leonard: Episode 2
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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I Was A Child of Dread
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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We Don't Talk About Leonard: Episode 1
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Is Capitalism Working for You?
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Silicon Valley’s History of Fumbles with Capitalism
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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What Does It Mean to be Free?
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Eating Elk Kabobs in Idaho
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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The Birth of Climate Denial
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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When Chicago Closed 50 Public Schools at Once
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Public School’s Failing Prospects
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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When Hip Hop Tried to Fight the Power, and Lost
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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The Blurry Line Between Appropriation And Appreciation
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Republican Debate No. 1: How Do You Limit Demagogues?
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Trump’s Indictment: Georgia’s Crucial Voters Respond
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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The Music of Your Diaspora
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Doom. Denial. ‘Hopium.’ What About Climate Action?
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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The Planet Sent a Bill. Here’s What We Owe.
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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The Radical Roots of Plant-Based Eating
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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If You Go After Me, I'm Coming After You!
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Critical Race Theory: What It Actually Means
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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When Barbie Stopped Being White
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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The Misunderstood Era of Crack Cocaine
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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A Punk Rock Guide to Making a Scene
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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A Song to “Define the Most African Moment of My Life”
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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The Case for 29 Supreme Court Justices
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Lessons from Mom at a Magic Mike Show in Vegas
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Affirmative Action is About More Than Acceptance Letters
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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What Does “Color-Blind” Really Mean?
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Black Life Resuscitated from the Ocean Floor
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Why It’s So Hard to Sound “American”
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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The Coolest Music Parties You Didn’t Know Were Happening
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Why the Indian Child Welfare Act is the Gold Standard in Family Law
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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95 Unmarked Graves
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Juneteenth Is an Act of Bravery
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Comedian Sam Jay Isn’t Afraid of Getting Canceled
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Billy Porter Doesn’t Need a Month to Celebrate Pride
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Trust the Media? Yeah, Right.
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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January 6th Was Not a Secret Attack
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Padma Lakshmi’s Low-Key Subversive Food Show
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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No, We Can’t Stop Saying Their Names
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May 29, 2023 |
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How the Supreme Court Got So Supreme
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May 25, 2023 |
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Clarence Thomas and his Hotep Supreme Court
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May 22, 2023 |
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Who’s Responsible for Jordan Neely’s Death?
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May 18, 2023 |
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Homelessness Hides in Plain Sight. So Does Its Fix.
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May 15, 2023 |
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Joy Harjo and Native Stories
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May 11, 2023 |
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Indian Boarding Schools Are Not Ancient History
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May 08, 2023 |
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Money Shame, and How To Overcome It Through Financial Literacy
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May 04, 2023 |
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How Assata Shakur Became One of America’s Most Wanted
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May 01, 2023 |
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Tucker Carlson, Rupert Murdoch, and the Future of Fox News
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Why Ralph Yarl Was Shot
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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The Joy and Pain of Little Richard
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Tell Me Your Politics–But Do It In Verse
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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The Week That Changed America’s Cities
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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How a Young, Black Progressive Won in Chicago
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Grieving Loss From Gun Violence
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Of Tech Moguls and Gold Miners: A Capitalist History
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Trump, the GOP, and a New Confederacy
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Ramadan: A Month About Much More Than Fasting
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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The Truth Behind the Religious Right
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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The History Behind New Waves of Anti-Trans Legislation
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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The Rocky Statue: A Famous Monument to a Fictitious Hero
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Revising History, One Monument at a Time
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Preserving Untold Oral Histories
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Hollywood
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Celebrating Terrance McKnight’s ‘Every Voice’ Podcast
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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How Respectability Politics Erased Young Women From History
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Black History Is Now: How Misty Copeland Went From Different to Special
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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The Battle Over Black Studies
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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How Black People Remade Mississippi
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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A First Date Immigrant Story
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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American Political Myths Have Consequences For Us All
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Black Music’s Most Memorable Moments With Emil Wilbekin
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Putting An End To Toxic Cop Culture
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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History On Repeat: The Killing Of Tyre Nichols
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Monterey Park: The Making of America’s First Suburban Chinatown
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Living With And Learning From Estrangement
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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The Not-So-Sunny Side of Louis Armstrong’s Legacy
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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The Legacy of MLK Jr. Is To Be Young, Gifted and Black
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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New Congress, New Consequences
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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The Future of Work As We Know It
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Faith Ringgold Creates Space for Black Americans
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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How Afrofuturism Redefines Our Past
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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Rediscovering Myself Through Rebuilding A Relationship With My Dad
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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YA Literature Chose Jason Reynolds
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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How Singer Marian Anderson Dominated the Global Stage
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Billy Porter on Bringing Blackness, Queerness and Fullness to Art
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Your Happy Holiday Hits
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Idina Menzel Talks Broadway, Balance and Her Dream Gig
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Many #Twitter Users Are Riding Out The Controversy
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Crime, Panic and The Case Of The Exonerated Five
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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We’ve Always Been A Divided United States
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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How You’re Dealing With Digital And Political Life
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Actor Omar Epps Imagines Life After The Climate Crisis
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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The Climate Crisis Needs a New Gospel
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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The Right Wing Media Empire Hiding in Plain Sight
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Notes From Our Exit Poll Episode
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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The Morning After: A Midterm Breakdown
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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What Arizona Teaches Us About The ‘Latino Vote’
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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The Conservative ‘Swing’ Vote: Explained
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Who Gets to Be Beautiful in America?
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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What Keeps You Voting?
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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What's at Stake for You This Midterm Election?
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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The Higher Cost of Higher Ed for Americans of Color
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Black Georgians Are Leading the Charge to the Polls
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Women. Life. Freedom.
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Church, State and the Soul of Our Nation
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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The Black Playwright Who Transformed Theater
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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The Obamas' Lonely Walk on the High Road
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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‘The Woman King’ Isn’t a Biopic. So What?
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Everything’s Changed. But Have You?
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Sep 26, 2022 |