More than 154 million treasures fill the Smithsonian’s vaults. But where the public’s view ends, Sidedoor begins. With the help of biologists, artists, historians, archaeologists, zookeepers and astrophysicists, host Lizzie Peabody sneaks listeners through the Smithsonian’s side door, telling stories that can’t be heard anywhere else. Check out si.edu/sidedoor and follow @SidedoorPod for more info.
Discover world history, culture and ideas with today’s leading experts
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History of Indian and Africana Philosophy


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History of Indian and Africana Philosophy
Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
Peter Adamson teams up with Jonardon Ganeri and Chike Jeffers to represent the philosophical traditions of India, Africa and the African diaspora. Website: www.historyofphilosophy.net.
A podcast where Natalie and Cherrie discuss Chinese history and stuff.We think we're funny but we're probably not.Episodes every other Sunday
Interviews with Scholars of Intellectual History about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history
UCTV programs take a closer look at the events, people and places that shaped the American experience from the history of early exploration through modern times.
SKELETON KEYS is a podcast dedicated to unlocking the mysteries of mythology and history in pop culture. Each episode is a skeleton key to unlock a particular artist, film, comic or other popular art through myth and history. Hosts, Torri Yates-Orr is an African American Historian and John Bucher is a Mythologist. Together, they take a look at the people, places, and events happening in culture in order to mine out a deeper meaning, having a ton of fun along the way.
Profiles, storytelling and insightful conversations, hosted by David Remnick.
Afropop Worldwide is an internationally syndicated weekly radio series, online guide to African and world music, and an international music archive, that has introduced American listeners to the music cultures of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean since 1988. Our radio program is hosted by Georges Collinet from Cameroon, the radio series is distributed by Public Radio International to 110 stations in the U.S., via XM satellite radio, in Africa via and Europe via Radio Multikulti.
American history preserved through the use of Primary sources, Black History, African American History~ The african experience; Shared by the legends themselves, their descendants, loved ones, genealogist and scholars. Presented by The Gist of Freedom
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Black History Matters 365
BHM365 is a weekly podcast series hosted by Jo Scaife a Marketplace Entrepreneur
BHM365 is a weekly podcast series that explores the true account of African American History as American History. Hosted by author and marketplace entrepreneur Jo Anne Scaife, this podcast dives into the revolutionary research found in “Black History 365: An Inclusive Account of American History” a seminal work by Dr. Walter Milton, Jr. and Dr. Joel Freeman. Featuring weekly interviews with history makers and current influencers, special ‘round table’ talks and series, as well as community f ...
Dr. Anika Prather herself, over many years, has engaged the fire and light that the classics have brought to African American throughout the history of America. She is uniquely gifted and trained to help us reclaim the canon that has been a source of liberty and humanity. As a scholar of the black intellectual tradition, she passionately argues for bringing the best that has been thought and said to African Americans and all Americans.
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BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History


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BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History
Nicole Franklin, BlackFacts.com, Bryant Monteilh
Meet BlackFacts.com, the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia - Delivering Black History, Culture, Vides and News to our followers. This podcast series provides your daily Black Facts Of The Day™. In addition there will be occasion bonus episodes focused on diversity or other key topics of interest to our BlackFacts audience Learn black history, Teach black history - https://blackfacts.com
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Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics


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Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics
Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne
A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. A weird and deep conversation about language delivered right to your ears the third Thursday of every month. "Joyously nerdy" –Buzzfeed. Listened to all the episodes here and wish there were more? Want to talk with other people who are enthusiastic about linguistics? Get bonus episodes and access to our Discord community at www.patreon.com/lingthusiasm Shownotes and transcripts: www.lingthusiasm.com
Providing a multimedia platform to express the intellect and opinions of real unfiltered Black men on a wide-ranging array of topics of interest for the purpose of education, enlightenment, and entertainment...
Veteran broadcast journalist Cari Champion speaks with a diverse list of guests from every industry. A roster of successful individuals ranging from entertainers and athletes to business executives and journalists in an effort to discuss the state of progress in America. These conversations range from the inspirational to the uncomfortable, and this podcast will act as a mentorship to those in need of direction. Our goal is to engage in dialogue that will offer solutions and guidance on how ...
"Harlem Queen" an audio drama based on the life and times of "Numbers Queen" Madame Stephanie St. Clair during the Harlem Renaissance.
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Town Hall Seattle Arts & Culture Series


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Town Hall Seattle Arts & Culture Series
Town Hall Seattle
The Arts & Culture series enriches our community with imagination and creativity. Whether reinventing the classics for a new audience or presenting an innovative new art form, these events are aimed at expanding horizons. From poetry to music to storytelling, this series leaves our audiences inspired, encouraged, and seeing the world with new eyes.
Hear book talks, conversations, special presentations, stories about the happenings in the library, the Labs, and Washington, DC, and much more! This show is recorded from the Labs Recording Studio at the historic, modernized, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in downtown Washington, D.C. This podcast was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Episode transcripts may be requested by emailing labs.dcpl@dc.gov, please include the episode name and date in y ...
Rejected Stone Productions is a media production company that provides agency to those individuals that fall into the category of historically underrepresented and underserved. RSP identifies individuals and groups that have been overlooked, underserved, and under-appreciated. Created in the midst of the pandemic, this podcast mainly deals with COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, and its impact on the community.
John Brown Today is a podcast devoted to historical and contemporary themes relating to the abolitionist John Brown (1800-59), the controversial antislavery and antiracist freedom fighter. John Brown Today is hosted by Louis A. DeCaro Jr., a Brown biographer and researcher, the most prolific author on the John Brown theme since the abolitionist's death in 1859. John Brown Today engages a range of themes from history and biography to popular culture and other contemporary themes.
An exploration of the history and ongoing impact of Black art and artists in Seattle. Hosted by Brooklyn Jamerson-Flowers.
Dedicated to the Black Experience
The Nod tells the stories of Black life that don’t get told anywhere else, from an explanation of how purple drink became associated with Black culture to the story of how an interracial drag troupe traveled the nation in the 1940s. We celebrate the genius, the innovation, and the resilience that is so particular to being Black -- in America, and around the world.
African-American Naval Academy Graduate, Marine Corps Veteran, and Entrepreneur "IRON" Mike Steadman, shares his perspectives on race, culture, and business.
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The Religion and Ethics Report - Separate stories podcast


The Religion and Ethics Report, where religion and ethics meet news and current affairs in Australia and around the world.
The Black Authors Book Show (BABS) is a Black Author talk Show open to Black Authors of all genres. This talk show is a global opportunity for Black Authors from around the world to showcase, introduce and query prospective readers, literary agents and publishers interested in considering new projects.
Creating new culture to last 1000’s of generations to come. Restoring the Black American family, our culture, our values, our history, and our pride. “Fear not God is With Us” Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/afroamerico/support
We feature the stories behind the hit classic soul music and artists of the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. We flip over the album covers and share stories of the movers and shakers that sang, created, wrote, and produced those sounds. It is informative, entertaining and incorporates culture and lifestyle appropriate content. We’ll educate and entertain you all while keeping the music alive!
Objects hold history. They're evocative of stories stamped in time. As part of The Washington Post's coverage of the Smithsonian's new National Museum of African American History and Culture, people submitted dozens of objects that make up their own lived experiences of black history, creating a "people's museum" of personal objects, family photos and more. The Historically Black podcast brings those objects and their stories to life through interviews, archival sound and music. The Washingt ...
AphroChic's ONE STORY UP podcast is a celebration of the culture of the African Diaspora and the stories that create it. Each month Jeanine Hays and Bryan Mason sit down with creatives, innovators and tastemakers from a variety of different disciplines to highlight the intersection and overlap of these fields while elevating and expanding our notion of Black culture, one story at a time.
Welcome to The Mid-South Bugalu Podcast! A podcast that serves as an educational, creative, informative, and intellectual space for African-Americans and Latinos (Hispanic-Americans, Latinx) alike! This is an effort to encourage unity, peace, knowledge, and creativity, in the spirit of Latin-Boogaloo, a crossover music genre from the 1960's era in New York. I wanted to make a safe space for African-Americans and Latinos, two groups that I'm a part of; my father being African-American from Br ...
A weekly discussion from a group of African American staff members of On Comics Ground talking about Black Nerd Culture. From its history, its characters in comics, video games, and more, to his complexities and more series notes. Starring: Aaron Jones, Jasmine Brown, James Portis, Travis Tucker, and Marcus Freeman. Theme song created by Dvvmfvc in partnership with Shoot The Breeze Media.
Join us in a conversation with the creators in the exploration and celebration of the literature and culture of people of the African Diaspora. Check out the video on Youtube @https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaGNhdO5QdvSyH5rVXYjApLZA3Vpuyg2M
Season Four is Here. Welcome to The Detroit History Podcast. In our fourth season, we’ll explore The Scene, which had an outsized impact on Motor City culture as the signature show on Detroit’s only African-American owned television station; explore the construction of the Detroit-Windsor tunnel 90 years ago; study the life of a 19th century Michigan lumber baron as we look for ghosts in The Whitney restaurant. And we’ll tell you about the Nike Missiles that were stationed around metro Detro ...
Join Stay Woke with James Robinson as we make pertinent connections between Black history, current events, and Africana culture. Topics will include reflections on African American spirituality, art, and music given from a Pan African perspective.
The Blackbelt Voices podcast tells stories from and about Black folks down South that honor our history, celebrate our culture, and shape our future. Through first-person narratives and in-depth conversations, hosts Adena J. White, Kara Wilkins, and Katrina Dupins share the experiences of Black Southerners living in, loving, and reconciling with the region we call home. Music: Prentice Dupins Jr. Logo Design: Kara Darling Creative
Welcome to the 2100 podcast! An ideological anchor, allowing accelerated growth of the African Diaspora in the C O L A… We're here to equip Black Pensacola with a mindset of group economics, a love for academics, and a healthy respect of our history, health, and God.
It just starts.. Every time! Random and current, sometimes offensive, topics including pop culture, politics and history from mostly liberal, libertarian and independent points of view. Hosted by 2 Bi-Racial Millenials. One of Puerto Rican and African American heritage and the other of Irish and African American heritage... Cover art photo provided by Rémy Venturini on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@rventu
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This Week in Black History, Society, and Culture


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This Week in Black History, Society, and Culture
Black and African Diaspora Forum United (BADFU)
"This Week in Black History, Society, and Culture" is a weekly podcast produced by the Black and African Diaspora Forum United (BADFU) an interracial group of faculty at Monmouth University concerned about issues pertaining to the Black/African American experience. BADFU members will periodically interview scholars, authors, activists, and community leaders on matters related to the history, society, and culture of Black and African American communities in the United States (U.S.) and beyond ...
In this limited series, host Leonard Jones, a senior at St. Ambrose University and president of the college's Black Student Union has conversations with experts from SAU and the Quad Cities area about Black history and culture to help combat ignorance and hate with positivity and education.
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham ALTERNATIVE ∞ ACTIVIST ∞ PROGRESSIVE ∞ EMPOWERMENT TALK RADIO “Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves” XX//^\\XXXX//^\\XX “Transforming Truth to POWER, ONE Broadcast At A Time” XX//^\\XXXX//^\\XX OUR COMMON GROUND explores and examines history and culture, the socio-economic and political issues and conditions of Black people in America. Discussion with our community, “speaking Black truths” toward the best of our collective interests. We present the best ...
KUNC's Colorado Edition is a daily look at the stories, news, people and issues important to you. It's a window to the communities along the Colorado Rocky Mountains. The show explores the big stories of the day, bringing context and insight to issues that matter. And because life in Northern Colorado is a balance of work and play, we explore the lighter side of news, highlighting what makes this state such an incredible place to live. New episodes available Monday - Thursday.
Our Network is dedicated to spreading the truth, culture, and history of the Melanated Family. Denouncing false truths, white supremacy, and all forms of oppression. We serve to uplift and improve the condition of the neglected and unheard. Join us today and be the difference that you want to see.
Explores the issues of the day concerning black women's liberation, radical feminism, politics, humanism, culture, politics, history and exposing the truth.
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Art · The Creative Process
Artists, Curators, Museum Directors Talk Art · Creative Process Original Series
Art episodes of the popular The Creative Process podcast. We speak to artists, curators, museum directors about their work & how they made their creative careers. To listen to arts episodes across a variety of disciplines, follow our main podcast: “The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society”. You’ll find us on Apple: tinyurl.com/thecreativepod, Spotify: tinyurl.com/thecreativespotify, or wherever you get your podcasts! Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people. Conversations wit ...
Listen to the Clear Voice and the Leader for what Al-Islam is in the world today. The Leader of The African American(Bilalian) Ethos, Imam W. Deen Mohammed
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The New Yorker Radio Hour


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Why Do Conservatives Love Hungary’s Viktor Orbán?
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When the New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz first heard that the Conservative Political Action Conference, the flagship event of the American conservative movement, was holding a meeting in Hungary, he thought it might be a joke. “A lot of people have worried for a few years now that the Republican Party is becoming more ambivalent about certai…
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Meredith Farmer and Jonathan D. S. Schroeder, "Ahab Unbound: Melville and the Materialist Turn" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Today’s guests are Meredith Farmer and Jonathan D.S. Schroeder, the co-editors of a bracing new collection of essays about the figure of Ahab in Melville’s novel Moby-Dick. Meredith is the Assistant Teaching Professor of Core Literature at Wake Forest University. Her book Melville’s Leaks: Science, Materialism, and the Reconstitution of Persons is …
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BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History


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June 27 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 27. Frederick Jones invents the ticket dispensing machine. He was an U.S. inventor credited with more than 60 patents. After a challenging childhood, Jones taught himself mechanical and electrical engineering, inventing a range of devices relating to refrigeration, sound, and automobiles. I…
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HAP 103 - A Federal Case - Nnamdi Azikiwe and Obafemi Awolowo
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Two Nigerian activists lead the struggle for independence, and clash over the competing values of national unity and ethnic diversity.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
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June 26 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 26. Sit-in demonstrations and passive resistance began in Cairo, Illinois. Despite Illinois’s relatively liberal reputation, Cairo, a small city far south from Chicago, was thoroughly segregated and violently racist. Local youths formed the Cairo Nonviolent Freedom Committee (CNVFC) and inv…
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June 25 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 25. Sonia Sotomayor was born. She is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, the first woman of color, first Hispanic, and first Latina member of the Court. Sotomayor was raised in a housing project in the Bronx. After the death of her father, her mother worked long …
Alan Alda spent his early years in the burlesque theatres where his father, the actor Robert Alda, would perform. Those early years opened his eyes in more ways than one: “I was very aware of the naked women,” he told The New Yorker’s Michael Schulman, “but I was also aware of the comics.” Watching from the wings, Alda grew an appreciation for bein…
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Colorado Edition


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Colorado Edition: Recovering from the Marshall Fire; how beavers are reshaping rivers and streams; 10 years of DACA
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The Marshall Fire ripped through Boulder County at the end of last year. Many fire victims took almost nothing with them that day. But they went back to sift through the debris in the months that followed. In the KUNC series From The Ashes, Leigh Paterson brings us the stories of how they salvaged objects to help families process what they lost. Cl…
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W. Michelle Wang, "Eternalized Fragments: Reclaiming Aesthetics in Contemporary World Fiction" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
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Eternalized Fragments: Reclaiming Aesthetics in Contemporary World Fiction (Ohio State UP, 2020) explores the implications of treating literature as art--examining the evolving nature of aesthetic inquiry in literary studies, with an eye to how twentieth- and twenty-first-century world fiction challenges our understandings of form, pleasure, ethics…
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Adrienne Mayor, "Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Adrienne Mayor is renowned for exploring the borders of history, science, archaeology, anthropology, and popular knowledge to find historical realities and scientific insights--glimmering, long-buried nuggets of truth--embedded in myth, legends, and folklore. Combing through ancient texts and obscure sources, she has spent decades prospecting for i…
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Marc David Baer, "German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Hugo Marcus (1880–1966) was a man of many names and many identities. Born a German Jew, he converted to Islam and took the name Hamid, becoming one of the most prominent Muslims in Germany prior to World War II. He was renamed Israel by the Nazis and sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp before escaping to Switzerland. He was a gay man who n…
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BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History


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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 24. John R. Lynch became first African-American to preside over deliberations of a national political party. Born into slavery in Louisiana, he became free in 1863 under the Emancipation Proclamation. He became active in the Republican Party by the age of 20. Although too young to participa…
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Town Hall Seattle Arts & Culture Series


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201. Peter Bacho with Robert Flor: Mostly True Stories of Filipino Seattle
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According to census data, the greater Seattle area is home to the fifth-largest Filipino American population in the U.S — the majority of which arrived in the area after 1965. From the 1950s to 1970s, Filipino Americans, or Pinoys, faced serious hardships and struggles with racism, discrimination, and exploitation. It was a difficult life for many.…
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The Brothers Talk


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Episode 127: Things Black People Need To do More Of...
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Rod, Scott, and Norm reverse field discussing positive actions that the Black community should engage in instead of negative ones they should stop...By Rod, Scott, & Norm
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Howard Gardner, "A Synthesizing Mind: A Memoir from the Creator of Multiple Intelligences Theory" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Howard Gardner's Frames of Mind was that rare publishing phenomenon--a mind-changer. Widely read by the general public as well as by educators, this influential book laid out Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences. It debunked the primacy of the IQ test and inspired new approaches to education; entire curricula, schools, museums, and parents' g…
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Srilata Raman, "The Transformation of Tamil Religion: Ramalinga Swamigal and Modern Dravidian Sainthood" (Routledge, 2022)
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Srilata Raman's book The Transformation of Tamil Religion: Ramalinga Swamigal and Modern Dravidian Sainthood (Routledge, 2022) analyses the religious ideology of a Tamil reformer and saint, Ramalinga Swamigal of the 19th century and his posthumous reception in the Tamil country and sheds light on the transformation of Tamil religion that both his w…
The reality behind the stereotypical image of Japan’s fearsome elite warriors is more nuanced than we are led to believe. It is thought the samurai developed as a social class in medieval Japan, when the term could encompass lowly foot soldiers or mercenaries, and often untrustworthy ones at that. A far cry from the skilled fighters who supposedly …
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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 23. Wilma Rudolph was born. She was an American sprinter, the first American woman to win three track-and-field gold medals in a single Olympics. Physically disabled for much of her early life, Rudolph wore a leg brace until she was twelve years old. Because there was little medical care av…
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DC Public Library Podcast


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All Things Local: Remembering Malcolm X: A Conversation with A. Peter Bailey Part 2
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*Original air date: November 6, 2018.*On this episode, A Peter Bailey joins host host Olubunmi Bakare to discuss the aftermath of Malcolm X's assassination, his career as a journalist working for Ebony and Jet magazines and in Black theatre. This is part two of their conversation.By A. Peter Bailey, Olubunmi Bakare
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The Brownprint


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Return of the Brownprint: Season 2, the Comeback!
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Veteran broadcast journalist Cari Champion is back for season 2 of ‘The Brownprint: The Comeback’. Once again, Cari sits down with a roster of A-listers for raw, thoughtful and honest conversations--with a twist. This season, many of our guests not only paved their own path, but overcame setbacks and adversity to come back stronger than ever. Joini…
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Joseph A. Boone, "The Homoerotics of Orientalism" (Columbia UP, 2014)
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One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with "deviant" male homosexuality by scores of Western travelers, historians, writers, and artists for well over four hundred years. And this story stands to shatter our preconceptions of Orientalism. To illuminate why and how the Islamicate …
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Slobodan Perovic, "From Data to Quanta: Niels Bohr’s Vision of Physics" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Niels Bohr was a central figure in quantum physics, well known for his work on atomic structure and his contributions to the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. In From Data to Quanta: Niels Bohr’s Vision of Physics (U Chicago Press, 2021), philosopher of science Slobodan Perović explores the way Bohr practiced and understood physics, a…
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The Religion and Ethics Report - Separate stories podcast


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Identity, religion, and extremism in South Asia
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How strong is religious extremism in South Asia right now? The fall of Kabul and return of the Taliban last year, raises concerns that we could see the region become a hotbed of militancy once again.
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The Religion and Ethics Report - Separate stories podcast


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Why Gandhi's murderer is being revered in India
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The man who assassinated Gandhi, Nathuram Godse, is becoming a celebrated figure amongst Hindu Nationalists, including some in Narendra Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
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June 22 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 22. Arthur Ashe leads UCLA to the NCAA tennis championship. Ashe was coached and mentored by Robert Walter Johnson at his tennis summer-camp home in Lynchburg, Virginia. Johnson helped fine-tune Ashe's game and taught him the importance of racial socialization through sportsmanship, etiquet…
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Black Arts Legacies


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A Belated Curtain Call at Black Arts/West
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Though the Madrona theater closed in 1980, several artists trace their current work to its heyday. Black Arts/West had slow beginnings. When Douglas Barnett opened the theater in 1969, there was nothing else like it. Its mission to "Educate, Enlighten, and Entertain" by making accessible theater for and about Black people first required appealing t…
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BlackFacts Presents - The History of Juneteenth
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JUNETEENTH - A Celebration of Freedom. Juneteenth (a portmanteau of June and nineteenth) is also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day. It is a holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States. It is now celebrated annually on the 19th of June throughout the United States. HI…
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June 21 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 21. Painter Henry Ossawa Tanner was born. He was an American artist and the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. After a childhood spent largely in Philadelphia, Tanner began an art career in earnest in 1876,painting harbour scenes, landscapes, and animals from the …
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The New Yorker Radio Hour


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Forget Dating Apps—the “Marriage Pact” Goes for the Long Haul
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A survey that started as a student project at Stanford University has become a popular dating and relationship tool on campuses across the country. Its goal is to delve deeper than the superficial information found on a typical dating-app profile, connecting people based on deeply held values rather than looks or sports teams. Most apps, says Liam …
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Ukrainian Nationalism in Historical Context
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In the midst of the ongoing war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, it is vital that the lay-educated public understand the historical origins of the conflict. It is with this in mind, that this episode of ‘Arguing History’, takes a look at the subject of ‘Ukrainian Nationalism and the Russian / Soviet state’. To guide us in this intricate …
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Paul Van Der Velde, "Life Under the Palms: The Sublime World of the Anti-Colonialist Jacob Haafner" (NUS Press, 2020)
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Jacob Gotfried Haafner (1754–1809) was one of the most popular European travel writers of the early nineteenth century, writing in the Romantic mode. A Dutch citizen, Haafner spent more than twenty years of his early life living outside of Europe, in India, Ceylon, Mauritius, Java, and South Africa. Books like his popular Travels in a Palanquin wer…
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Jerry Z. Muller, "Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Genius or Charlatan? This is the story of Jacob Taubes, the controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life Scion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923–1987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him from prewar Vienna to Zurich, Israel, …
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New Books in Intellectual History


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Mark Siderits, "How Things Are: An Introduction to Buddhist Metaphysics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Mark Siderits’ How Things Are: An Introduction to Buddhist Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, 2022) is a wide-ranging survey of how Buddhist philosophers think about the nature of the world. The book takes readers through topics such as the well-known claim that there is no self, in addition to issues involved in causation, consciousness, and th…
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BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History


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June 20 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 20. Harry Belafonte became the first African American to win an Emmy award. As one of the most successful African-American pop stars in history, he was dubbed the “King of Calypso” for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s. He was an early supp…
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With Chinese Characteristics


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Voting with Chinese Characteristics: Part 1
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The Modern Chinese state calls itself a People's Democratic Dictatorship (人民民主专政), and insists that it quickly and efficiently translates the people's will into government policy. Supposedly the Chinese people have no want or need for slow, chaotic, and expensive 'western style' democracy, and some studies even seem to back this up. All of this how…
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Black History Matters 365


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BHM365 Presents: "Real Relationships" with Dr. T, Terrence Schofield, The People's Psychologist - A Special Message on Juneteenth and Father's Day
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A Special Message on Juneteenth and Father's Day Dr. Terrence Schofield The People's Psychologist A special heartfelt uncut interview moment recorded on Juneteenth and Father's Day from "Dr. T:, Dr, Terrence Schofield, "The People's Psychologist. Focusing on the improtance of men realizing there power is found in understanding their true identity. …
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Black History Matters 365


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BH365: Moment in History - Juneteenth. The 11th Federal Holiday Celebrated Across the World
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Juneteenth the 11th Federal Holiday Celebrated Across the World On Tuesday June 15, 2021, the U. S. Senate unanimously passed legislation establishing Juneteenth as a national holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the United States. The bill went to President Joe Biden desk and passed. Juneteenth became the 11th annual federal holiday June 15, …