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    <em>White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea</em>, by Tyler Stovall
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    'White Freedom' Examines The Tandem Development Of The Concepts Of Freedom And Race

    Jan 20, 2021
    Tyler Stovall writes white freedom is "the belief (and practice) that freedom is central to white racial identity, and that only white people can or should be free" — noting nations were built on it.
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    The Picture Show
    Crowds outside steps of U.S. Capitol for President Theodore Roosevelt Inauguration.
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    Photos: Historic Inauguration Will Not Look Like The Past

    Jan 20, 2021
    Large crowds and parades have become hallmarks of presidential inaugurations but will be absent this year because of the pandemic and security concerns. Here's a look back at earlier inaugural events.
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    Shots - Health News
    An illustration shows medical student Elizabeth Blackwell at Geneva Medical College (later Hobart College) in upstate New York, as she eyes a note dropped onto her arm by a male student, during a lecture in the college's operating room.
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    'Doctors Blackwell' Tells The Story Of 2 Pioneering Sisters Who Changed Medicine

    Jan 19, 2021
    Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman in America to earn her medical degree. Her sister Emily followed in her footsteps. Janice Nimura tells the story of the "complicated, prickly" trailblazers.
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    Biden's Inauguaration Will Be Different But The Oath Remains The Same

    Jan 19, 2021
    The inauguration of President-elect Biden will look different from the past — with no crowds and troops guarding the Capitol. But the oath of office remains the same.
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    Why Nations Fail, America Edition

    Jan 19, 2021
    We talk with the authors of Why Nations Fail about whether the Capitol insurrection is a sign that our nation is failing and, if so, whether there's anything we can do about it.
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    Filmmaker Ken Burns says America is "defined as much by our challenges and the dark moments as we are by our successes." Above, the sun rises behind the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
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    Ken Burns Says U.S. Has 3 Viruses: COVID-19, White Supremacy And Misinformation

    Jan 19, 2021
    Documentarian Ken Burns believed there were three major crises in the nation's past: The Civil War, the Depression and World War II. Now, he says, we are living through the fourth.
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    Martin Luther King Jr.'s Vision For Economic Justice

    Jan 18, 2021
    NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Michael Tubbs, Stockton, Calif., ex-mayor and founder of Mayors for a Guaranteed Income, on how Martin Luther King Jr. impacted the fight for universal basic income.
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    Martin Luther King Jr. was a man who had a "tremendous amount of burdens he had to deal with, both politically, socially and personally," says <em>MLK/FBI</em> director Sam Pollard.
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    Documentary Exposes How The FBI Tried To Destroy MLK With Wiretaps, Blackmail

    Jan 18, 2021
    MLK/FBI director Sam Pollard chronicles the FBI's campaign against Martin Luther King Jr., which included sending King a letter suggesting that he kill himself.
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    There's Pain And Tragedy In 'Yellow Wife' — But Also Great Joy

    Jan 17, 2021
    Sadeqa Johnson's novel — inspired by a real historical figure — pulls no punches in its tale of an enslaved woman trying to survive and make a life for herself and her family.
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    Politics
    Pro-Trump protesters seeking to force Congress to overturn the election results swarm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, two weeks before President-elect Joe Biden is scheduled to gives his inaugural address there.
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    In His Inaugural Address, Biden Seeks To Move Past 'American Carnage'

    Jan 17, 2021
    With the country reeling from the pandemic, racial injustice and the Capitol riot, President-elect Joe Biden must transcend the "typical gauzy appeals to national unity" of past inaugural addresses.
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    The History In 'Angel Of Greenwood' Could Not Be More Timely

    Jan 16, 2021
    Randi Pink's new novel follows a young couple, Angel and Isaiah, whose budding love is set against the backdrop of historical tragedy: the Tulsa race massacre of 1921.
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    McGuire Sisters
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    Phyllis McGuire

    Jan 15, 2021

    Phyllis McGuire died at the end of 2020, and with her died a lot of the history of show business, Las Vegas society, and, yes, organized crime.

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    Televisions show a news broadcast of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Taipei, Taiwan, on Jan. 11. The Trump administration removed decades-old restrictions on interactions with Taiwanese officials just days before President-elect Joe Biden's inaugu
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    As Pompeo Dumps Rulebook For U.S.-Taiwan Relations, Some See 'Trap' For Biden

    Jan 15, 2021
    The Trump administration has upended decades of diplomatic practice in U.S. relations with Taiwan. For the new president, "this is meant to be a trap," says a former Obama administration official.
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    History

    Remembering Neil Sheehan, Vietnam War Correspondent Who Revealed The Pentagon Papers

    Jan 15, 2021
    Sheehan, who died Jan. 7, broke the story of the Pentagon Papers and wrote A Bright Shining Lie, a Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Vietnam War. Originally broadcast in 1988.
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    Caro Verbeek speaks on the TEDx stage in Gronigen, Netherlands.
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    Caro Verbeek: What Can The Scents Of The Past Tell Us About Our History?

    Jan 15, 2021
    Each day, we breathe about 22,000 times--and all that time we smell. Scent historian Caro Verbeek recreates scents of the past. She says, just like music and art, smell is a part of our heritage.
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    StoryCorps
    A young Clara Jean Ester graduated from Memphis State College, now known as the University of Memphis. Now, Ester is a retired organizer and Methodist deaconess in Mobile, Ala.
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    'I May Not Get There With You': An Eyewitness Account Of MLK's Final Days

    Jan 15, 2021
    Clara Jean Ester was a college student in 1968 when she saw Martin Luther King Jr. give his final speech. A day later, Ester was at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., when he was assassinated.
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    Race

    'Black Radical' Traces The Life And Legacy Of Activist William Monroe Trotter

    Jan 13, 2021
    Trotter was a Black newspaper editor in the early 20th century who advocated for civil rights by organizing mass protests. Historian Kerri Greenidge tells his story in her new book.
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    Let Throughline Help You Make Sense of This Moment

    Jan 13, 2021
    Since 2019, NPR's podcast and radio show Throughline has been putting events into historical context. Here are some episodes we think might help us better understand this moment.
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    Planet Money
    Babe Ruth, a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, in 1918. That year, World War I and the Spanish flu pandemic slashed MLB game attendance by over half from what it was in the previous season.
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    What 1919 Teaches Us About Pent-Up Demand

    Jan 12, 2021
    A hundred years ago, a world war and a pandemic wreaked havoc on baseball and other industries. But pent-up demand helped them come roaring back.
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    Simon Says
    Journalist Neil Sheehan, pictured at the time as a reporter for UPI, died recently at the age of 84.
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    Opinion: Remembering Journalist And Friend Neil Sheehan

    Jan 09, 2021
    NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the life and work of famed reporter Neil Sheehan who obtained the Pentagon Papers. Sheehan died this week at the age of 84.
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    Nevada Yesterdays

    Joe Neal

    Jan 07, 2021

    Neal was Nevada’s first Black state senator, serving for eight terms. He was the first Black major party candidate for governor. He died on New Year’s Eve at age eighty-five..

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    Book Reviews
    <em>Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding,</em> by Daniel E. Lieberman
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    'Exercised' Explains Why It Can Be Hard To Commit To Working Out — And Why We Should

    Jan 05, 2021
    Harvard University's Daniel Lieberman looks at exercise from an evolutionary point of view, concluding that we evolved to limit our physical activity where possible, saving it for survival activities.
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    Coronavirus Updates
    Meda Nix, 72, teaches Cherokee to fifth graders.
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    At First Wary Of Vaccine, Cherokee Speaker Says It Safeguards Language, Culture

    Jan 04, 2021
    Meda Nix, 72, is one of the Cherokee speakers who's received a dose of coronavirus vaccine. She says vaccinating Cherokee speakers early helps to preserve "Our culture. Our beliefs. Our ways."
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    World
    The final restoration project by the nonprofit Advancing Women Artists group features works by Violante Ferroni, an 18th century prodigy about whom little is known today.
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    'Where Are The Women?': Uncovering The Lost Works Of Female Renaissance Artists

    Jan 02, 2021
    A nonprofit has identified 2,000 works by women artists that had been stashed in Italy's public museums and damp churches. It's also supported restoration of 70 works from the 16th to 20th centuries.
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    History

    More Works Of Art Enter The Public Domain On New Year's Day

    Jan 01, 2021
    January 1st is Public Domain Day. That's the day creative works over a certain age enter the public domain.
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