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    Race
    Federal housing policies created after the Depression ensured that African-Americans and other people of color were left out of the new suburban communities — and pushed instead into urban housing projects, such as Detroit's Brewster-Douglass towers.
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    A 'Forgotten History' Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America

    May 03, 2017
    Author Richard Rothstein says the housing programs begun under the New Deal were tantamount to a "state-sponsored system of segregation," in which people of color were purposely excluded from suburbs.
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    For Richard Ford, Memoir Is A Chance To 'Tell The Unthinkable'

    May 02, 2017
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist revisits the lives and deaths of his parents in his new memoir, Between Them. "As much as they loved me, an only child, they loved each other more," he says.
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    A Dangerous Trip Into The 'Spill Zone:' Questions For Scott Westerfeld

    May 02, 2017
    Scott Westerfeld's new graphic novel was inspired by photos of Chernobyl; it's the story of two sisters living on the outskirts of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. after a mysterious incident destroys the city.
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    Politics
    Former President George W. Bush and Laura Bush greet evangelist Billy Graham in 2010.
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    Why White Evangelicals Are 'Splintering' Politically

    May 02, 2017
    A new book traces the history of white evangelicals in the U.S., from the group's rebellious 19th century roots to its role as political force. We asked the author about where the movement is headed.
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    Pop Culture
    W. Kamau Bell performs at Vulture Festival Comedy Night in New York City in 2014.
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    W. Kamau Bell's 'Awkward Thoughts' On Racism And Black Comedy

    May 01, 2017
    Feeling out of place is a fact of life for Bell, who describes himself as a "black and proud ... mama's boy." He celebrates his outsider status in the new memoir The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell.
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    Author Uses Humor To Shed Light On Feminism, Race, The Internet

    Apr 30, 2017
    Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Scaachi Koul of BuzzFeed about her new book of essays, cheerily titled One Day We'll All Be Dead And None of This Will Matter.
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    Documentary Filmmaker On The Personal Essays In 'You Don't Look Your Age'

    Apr 29, 2017
    NPR's Scott Simon talks with award-winning documentary filmmaker Sheila Nevins about her new book, You Don't Look Your Age...And Other Fairy Tales.
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    Whose Side Was She On? 'American Heiress' Revisits Patty Hearst's Kidnapping

    Apr 28, 2017
    Legal expert Jeffrey Toobin says Hearst, who was abducted in 1974 and declared allegiance to her captors, "responded rationally to the circumstances." Originally broadcast Aug. 3, 2016.
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    Author Laura McBride Explores Racism In Las Vegas In "'Round Midnight"

    Aug 07, 2017

    In Las Vegas-based writer Laura McBride's new novel, "'Round Midnight," the lives of four women - a casino owner, her daughter, an immigrant from the Philippines, and an immigrant from Mexico - are intertwined.

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    Honey fritters
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    What Did Ancient Romans Eat? New Novel Serves Up Meals And Intrigue

    Apr 28, 2017
    In ancient Rome, food was a bargaining chip for position for slaves and nobles alike. At the center of Feast Of Sorrow is real-life nobleman Apicius, who inspired the oldest surviving cookbook.
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    Sandberg and her husband Dave Goldberg, then-CEO of SurveyMonkey, attend a 2014 conference in Sun Valley, Idaho.
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    'Just Show Up': Sheryl Sandberg On How To Help Someone Who's Grieving

    Apr 25, 2017
    The Facebook executive lost her husband in 2015. She says, "Rather than offer to do something, it's often better to do anything. Just do something specific." Her new book is called Option B.
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    The inmates in Bellevue are awaiting trial for a variety of offenses, ranging from sleeping on the subway to murder.
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    Psychiatrist Recalls 'Heartbreak And Hope' On Bellevue's Prison Ward

    Apr 25, 2017
    Dr. Elizabeth Ford treated mentally ill inmates in New York City for more than a decade. It was almost universal, she says, that they had suffered abuse or significant neglect as children.
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    'Thunder In The Mountains' Tells Tragedy Of Two Strong, Opposing Leaders

    Apr 23, 2017
    Daniel Sharfstein's new book Thunder In the Mountains sheds new light on the Nez Perce Indian wars, and the two historical figures on each side of the conflict: Chief Joseph and Oliver Otis Howard.
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    'Janesville' Looks At A Factory Town After The Factory Shuts Down

    Apr 23, 2017
    Washington Post reporter Amy Goldstein talks about her book Janesville: An American Story, that's about a factory town in Wisconsin that lost its lifeblood when its factory shut down.
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    Chemo Scrambled My Brain

    Apr 23, 2017
    After an incorrect dose of a chemotherapy drug for Crohn's disease caused Anne Webster's bone marrow to shut down, she decided that, if she survived, she'd write about her experience.
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    'Girls & Sex' And The Importance Of Talking To Young Women About Pleasure

    Apr 21, 2017
    Author Peggy Orenstein says that when it comes to adolescent sexuality, the subject of girls' pleasure is often left unspoken. Originally broadcast March 29, 2016.
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    Deceptive Cadence
    Carmen takes a bath in a bowl.
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    How Do You Bond With Mozart? Adopt A Starling

    Apr 20, 2017
    Naturalist and author Lyanda Lynn Haupt took her research on Mozart to a whole new level when she invited a young starling into her home.
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    A galley proof shows some of the work that went into adding "ginormous" to Merriam-Webster's 2007 collegiate dictionary.
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    From 'F-Bomb' To 'Photobomb,' How The Dictionary Keeps Up With English

    Apr 19, 2017
    For a new word to enter the dictionary, it must meet three criteria: widespread use, sustained use and meaningful use. Merriam-Webster lexicographer Kory Stamper explains the process in Word by Word.
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    Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during a rally in front of the Capitol on March 22. She writes about the middle class and activism in her new book, <em>This Fight Is Our Fight</em>.
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    Sen. Elizabeth Warren's Call To Action: 'This Fight' Will Take Everybody

    Apr 18, 2017
    "Everybody's got to get out there and find the piece that they can do," the Democratic Massachusetts senator says. She talks to NPR's Audie Cornish about her new book, the middle class and activism.
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    President Barack Obama confers with Alyssa Mastromonaco aboard Air Force One.
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    'I Basically Ran On Adrenaline': A Staffer Remembers Obama's White House

    Apr 18, 2017
    Alyssa Mastromonaco worked in the West Wing for six exhilarating and exhausting years. She describes that era in her new memoir, Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?
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    'The Epitome Of New York Cool': Letterman Biographer On Late Night Icon

    Apr 17, 2017
    David Letterman, one of the most famous people in America, is an enigma. Jason Zinoman's new book, Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night, looks at the late night talk show host's long career and the impact it still has on broadcasting today.
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    History
    Ernest and Mollie Burkhart married in 1917. Unbeknownst to Mollie, a member of the Osage tribe, the marriage was part of a larger plot to steal her family's oil wealth.
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    In The 1920s, A Community Conspired To Kill Native Americans For Their Oil Money

    Apr 17, 2017
    The Osage tribe in Oklahoma became spectacularly wealthy in the early 1900s — and then members started turning up dead. David Grann's Killers of the Flower Moon describes the dark plot against them.
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    'A People's History Of Chicago' Reflects A Spectrum Of Experiences

    Apr 16, 2017
    Poet and author Kevin Coval talks about his new book of poems, A People's History of Chicago. The book tells the stories of the city's marginalized communities.
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    Michael Nesmith (center, foreground) with the other members of The Monkees — Davy Jones (left), Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork (right) — in the late 1960s.
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    Michael Nesmith On 'Infinite Tuesday' And Touring With Hendrix

    Apr 16, 2017
    In his new memoir, the one-time member of The Monkees recalls befriending John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix, who opened for the band on a 1967 tour. (That didn't last long.)
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    The Poetic Intimacy Of Administering Anesthesia

    Apr 16, 2017
    An anesthesiologist and poet says her medical work is well-suited to poetry, as patients move in and out of consciousness under the doctor's watch.

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