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Who Wins When Public Schools Have Selective Admissions Policies?
The Takeaway
A disproportionately small number of black and Latino students were admitted to New York City’s most elite public high schools.
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What We Learned From The Michael Cohen Search Warrant
A judge has released a key document, almost a year after the president's personal lawyer's office was raided by the FBI. -
Top New Jersey Leaders Start Whipping Up Support for Marijuana Bill
A bill legalizing weed is set to go before the New Jersey legislature in a week, but it's unclear if there is enough support to pass it.
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Gov. Cuomo Talks NYS Budget and More
The Brian Lehrer Show
Ahead of the April 1 deadline, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo talks about key parts of the New York State budget, including criminal justice reform, and other statewide news. -
Gorsuch Provides Decisive 5th Vote In Case Interpreting Treaty With Indian Tribe
On a conservative court, Justice Gorsuch has been one of the most conservative voices. But in cases involving Indian treaties and rights, he is most often sympathetic to Indian claims. -
Supreme Court Broadens The Government's Power To Detain Criminal Immigrants
The ruling responds to two class-action lawsuits brought by legal immigrants who served criminal sentences and then were detained years later. -
California Jury Finds Roundup Caused Man's Cancer
After five days of deliberation the jury concluded the weed killer was a "substantial factor" in causing non-Hodgkins lymphoma in the plaintiff. It's the second verdict against the Bayer product. -
Daily Marijuana Use And Highly Potent Weed Linked To Psychosis
As more places in the U.S. and Europe legalize marijuana, weed consumption is growing ever more popular. But researchers are studying a troubling health risk associated with the drug.
Arts and Culture
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REBEL: Artist Torkwase Dyson Is Trying to "Desperately Live Up to Blackness"
Torkwase Dyson's art mines the history of black bodies in America — and connects it to urgent issues of climate change and migration. -
Road Trip With 'Zora And Langston' In This Real-Life Literary Adventure
Fresh Air
Squeeze into the rumble seat — Yuval Taylor brings readers along on a 1927 summer road trip taken by Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes. Their friendship turned out to be a very bumpy ride. - Edit Bucket
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#39 Phoebe and Jameela Jamil Stop Being Polite
Sooo Many White Guys
It's season 4! We're kicking it off with Jameela Jamil of The Good Place! The actress and activist talks to Pheebs about taking on body-shamers - and how she doesn't give a fuck
Tech and Media
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No Notoriety
On the Media
After another mass shooting grips the worlds' media, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Adhern changes up the script when she announced that she will never say the shooter's name. -
Fighting White Supremacist Terror on Social Media
The Brian Lehrer Show
How social media, and news media, are working to crackdown on white supremacist terror and Islamophobia. -
Why The Promise Of Electronic Health Records Has Gone Unfulfilled
All Things Considered
The government used a 2009 financial stimulus package to move the country from paper medical charts to electronic records. Care was supposed to get better, safer and cheaper. It hasn't worked out.
Music For Your Day
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Weekly Music Roundup: Dexter Story, Malawi's Lazarus, and Angelique Kidjo
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This week, (almost) all roads lead to Africa with Angelique Kidjo’s Celia Cruz tribute, Dexter Story's Ethiopop-influenced music, Carlos Santana with Buika, and Malawi's Lazarus. -
Watch: Adia Victoria Carries The Legacy of the Blues
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Nashville-based singer-songwriter, guitarist, and poet Adia Victoria crafts Southern Gothic pop deeply rooted in the blues. She performs new songs from her record, “Silences”, in-studio. -
J.S. Ondara Says Hello To The 'American Dream'
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Kenyan-born, Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter J.S. Ondara, inspired by a love for Bob Dylan, plays songs in “old troubadour style” from his debut record, Tales of America, in-studio. -
Watch: Beautiful Future-Soul Music From Jacob Banks
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British singer/songwriter Jacob Banks is a visual and musical storyteller whose electro-enhanced R&B is stretched across deep powerful grooves. He plays songs from Village, in-studio. -
Watch: Nilüfer Yanya's Twisted and Imperfect Pop
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From London, guitarist and songwriter Nilüfer Yanya delivers sharp, sparking pop that has soft, weird edges as well. She plays songs from her debut, 'Miss Universe", in-studio.
