According to the most commonly cited figures from a 2007 UNESCO forum, 90% to 95% of sub-Saharan cultural artifacts are housed outside Africa. Many, like the works from Benin, were taken during the colonial period and ended up in museums across Europe and North America.
Read MoreCharlie Todd choreographs bizarre, hilarious and unexpected public scenes. He explains how his group, Improv Everywhere, creates these moments of urban whimsy to bring people together.
Dr. Stuart Brown says humor, games, roughhousing and fantasy are more than just fun. He came to this conclusion after conducting some somber research into the stark childhoods of murderers.
Other nations across the globe have the internet, video games, and mental illness, so why is America the only nation where mass shootings happen on a regular basis? We finally figured it out: it's the guns, stupid.
Intercept D.C. Bureau Chief Ryan Grim weighs in on Justice Democrats support for ousting certain Democrats.
A French inventor has crossed the English Channel on a jet-powered hoverboard. Franky Zapata's hoverboard is powered by kerosene which he carries in a backpack. He took off from Sangatte near Calais and reached Dover in just over 20 minutes – but he had to stop for fuel.
Read MoreCarl Allamby was a successful car mechanic and small business owner when he decided at the age of 40 to go to medical school. Now a doctor, he talks with host Scott Simon about his experience.
Democratic Strategists say that in 2020 they need a candidate who can unify the electorate and galvanize the base ... Well, that person seems to be emerging. This candidate has the most AND highest concentration of individual donors.
John Oliver explains how Britain’s new prime minister, Boris Johnson, has succeeded – not despite his bumbling persona, but often because of it.
Jelani Cobb talks with the filmmaker Ava DuVernay, whose new miniseries, “When They See Us,” is about five teen-agers wrongly convicted and later exonerated of a terrible crime.
Read MoreExactly 100 years ago today, Chicago was in the throes of a brutal heat wave. Thousands flocked to the beaches lining Lake Michigan for some relief. Among them … 17-year-old Eugene Williams. Eugene, who was on a raft, inadvertently drifted over the invisible line that separated the black and white sections of the 29th St Beach. One white beach-goer … began throwing rocks … Eugene Williams slipped off his raft and drowned. That incident ignited a race riot that would go down in history as one of the country's bloodiest, and least-known, to date
Read MoreSome people have always believed that the moon landing was a government hoax, and, in the age of the Internet, that conspiracy theory continues to thrive.
Read MoreThe album was released in 1956 to coincide with her autobiography of the same name. By this point in her career, when she was just in her early 40s, Holiday’s voice had taken on a fragile and worn quality. Hardship, abusive relationships and addiction had taken their toll on her famous instrument.
Read MoreAn episode about singers, alone and in harmony. The latest installment of This Woman’s Work, a series from Classic Album Sundays and Studio 360 highlighting classic albums by female artists, focuses on “Lady Sings the Blues” by Billie Holiday, whose role as an innovator we are still coming to grasp.
Read MoreShortly after her trip to the border, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez joined David Remnick to talk about what she saw in the migrant-detention facilities she visited and why she thinks the Department of Homeland Security needs to be broken up.
Read MoreAs Aaron Sorkin began writing his theatrical adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” he found a “white savior” dynamic that he felt he had to challenge; the result was a lawsuit from the literary executor of Harper Lee.
Read MoreThe group, Code Pink, got approval from the National Park Service to have the balloon present between 4 a.m. and 9 p.m. ET on July 4 on a section of the National Mall near the Washington Monument.
Abigail Disney, the activist and filmmaker, has been speaking out on the issue of income inequality, and specifically at Disney. She was one of 18 people in the top one-tenth of the wealthiest 1% who first signed a recent letter to the 2020 presidential candidates supporting a tax for households with $50 million or more in assets.
Read MoreThe first two 2020 Democratic presidential primary debates, featuring Cartoons Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Marianne Williamson, Beto O'Rourke, Cory Booker, Bill de Blasio, Amy Klobuchar, and the rest of them.
Read MoreIn our final episode of White Lies, we contemplate James Reeb the man. Before the news of Reeb's death was broadcast across the country and cast him as a martyr, Reeb was a husband, father and trusted friend.
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