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The Highest Office
When Colin Rafferty moved to Virginia in 2008 he didn’t know much about the presidents, so he set out to read a biography of each one. What began as …
4 years, 7 months ago
REPLAY American Terrorism
In 1979, members of the KKK shot and killed five labor and civil rights activists in Greensboro, North Carolina. Aran Shetterly, who is writing a boo…
4 years, 7 months ago
Mi Voz, Mi Cultura
Little kids absorb everything around them–from the words we say, to the way we move and dress. Psychologist Chelsea Williams says that long before we…
4 years, 7 months ago
Gray Areas
As technology advances, society becomes more vulnerable to cybersecurity threats. Bug bounty hunters to the rescue! Bug hunters are ethical hackers w…
4 years, 8 months ago
Next Stop: Mars
Back in the 1950s, the Soviets were eager to follow their Sputnik success with an even bigger milestone: they would send something living to outer sp…
4 years, 8 months ago
New Year, New You
The 1970s saw a renaissance of Black women writers like Alice Walker and Gloria Naylor who told stories of Black women’s pain and healing. Tamika Car…
4 years, 8 months ago
REPLAY Parenting On The Spectrum
When Jennifer Malia started researching her young daughter’s behaviors, she realized that both she and her daughter were on the autism spectrum. Mali…
4 years, 8 months ago
REPLAY Policing The Jig
Francis O’Neill rose through the ranks to become a prominent Chicago police chief at the turn of the 20th century. But he’s mostly remembered as the …
4 years, 9 months ago
Food Is Family
While many Americans keep the Christmas decorations stowed away until after Thanksgiving, the Philippines takes Christmas to another level. From Sept…
4 years, 9 months ago
Gift Wrapped America
It’s all about the power of the almighty dollar. Meredith Katz says that from From the Boston Tea Party to the Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work, consum…
4 years, 9 months ago