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Fables and fairytales are often more than just great stories.
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Two great new memoirs to listen to.
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The highs and lows of the International Art World.
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We go On the Record with historian Edda Fields-Black. Her book “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War" tells of a crucial Civil War raid. Under cover of darkness, Harriet Tubman and the Union Army, along with Black enlisted men, liberated 700 enslaved people along the Combee River of South Carolina.
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What makes an activist?
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Tom talks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe on her new book, "HBCU Made: A Celebration of the Black College Experience."
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Heather McGhee argues in her book "The Sum of Us" that racial hierarchy has harmed all Americans.
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Tom speaks with Patricia Meisol who chronicles the life of barrier breaking pediatrician Helen Brooke Taussig in "A Heart Afire."
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Stories about life during a worldwide pandemic.