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COVID Segregation Is Worsening Even As NYC's Vaccine Rollout Succeeds
Hospitalizations and deaths are shifting into areas that have fallen behind on vaccine doses, and people of color are making up a greater proportion of cases.
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The Bronx Has The Highest Crime Rate In NYC. What Do Locals Want The Next Mayor To Do About It?
"I just want the mayor to... put themselves in our shoes and just come out to the neighborhoods," one Belmont resident said.
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Commemorating Juneteenth on WNYC
Leading the lineup is the one hour special from Intelligence Squared U.S., "Is It Time For Slavery Reparations?". Also check out related content from The Brian Lehrer Show, The Takeaway, The United State of Anxiety, and more.
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Juneteenth Is Now A Federal Holiday
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June 19 is a commemoration of the end of chattel slavery in the United States, marking the day enslaved people were finally freed — more than 2 years after the Emancipation Proclamation. -
Why Some States Push Back As The Biden Administration Doles Out Relief Money
More than a dozen Republican state attorneys general are suing the Biden administration over a provision in the American Rescue Plan that prevents states from using relief money for tax cuts. -
North Korea's Kim Vows To Be Ready For Confrontation With The U.S.
Earlier this week, the U.S. and other leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations issued a statement calling for North Korea to abandon its nuclear program and return to talks. -
Oregon's Pioneering Drug Decriminalization Experiment Is Now Facing The Hard Test
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Oregon's bold move to decriminalize small amounts of all hard drugs and expand treatment is now meeting the reality of implementation as the treatment community is divided over the way forward. -
Who Owns Time?
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While Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom, it’s also an acknowledgement of losing one of the few resources that can never be renewed: time.
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"The Lying Stops Now": Your Hardest Conversations
Death, Sex & Money
Talking with your kids about a death. Telling family that you've fallen in love with a man who's in prison. Breaking up with a friend. Today: the hardest conversations you've ever had. -
The Limitations Of 'Latinidad': How Colorism Haunts 'In The Heights'
Film critic Monica Castillo reflects on the glaring absence of Afro-Latino actors from the new screen adaptation of In the Heights and how colorism still affects Latino representation on screen. -
Why Major Cities Are Experimenting with Guaranteed Income for Artists
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This year the cities of St. Paul and San Francisco have rolled out guaranteed minimum income programs for artists that give out monthly, no strings attached payments. - Edit Bucket
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A New Hip Hop Museum in the Bronx
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Kurtis Blow & Rocky Bucano on the Universal Hip Hop Museum.
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Little Fires Everywhere
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Why we are still in "emergency mode"; the "authoritarian mullet"; and the Critical Race Theory boogeyman. -
It's Personal: Zoom'd Out Workplace Ready For Face-To-Face Conversations To Return
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Before the pandemic, the Janelia Research Campus was a hive of collaboration. Now, as researchers return to their offices and labs, they're eager to restore the connections lost this past year. -
An 11-Minute Flight To Space Was Just Auctioned For $28 Million
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos is going up July 20 on a rocket made by his space exploration company Blue Origin. So is his brother. And now a mystery bidder has won an auction to join them.
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Weekly Music Roundup: Sons of Kemet, Xenia Rubinos, Johnny Flynn
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Go “Black to the Future” with Sons of Kemet; take a strange trip with Johnny Flynn; hear the many voices of Xenia Rubinos and the sweet 70's sounds of St. Vincent's latest. -
Manchester Orchestra: No Rules and No Ceiling
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Atlanta-based Manchester Orchestra crafts cinematic, long-form songs on their latest record, The Million Masks of God. Andy Hull and Robert McDowell play intimate arrangements remotely. -
Helado Negro Refracts Music Through a Latinx Lense (Archives)
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Ecuadorian-American musician Roberto Lange records as Helado Negro. He plays songs from 2016's 'Private Energy', some of the band’s most explicitly political material, in-studio. -
Adrian Crowley's Songs Are True Stories and Born of Another Place
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Irish singer/songwriter Adrian Crowley is known for his detailed but surreal storytelling, and his rich baritone voice. He plays songs from his latest, 'The Watchful Eye Of The Stars.' -
Las Palabras Finds The Words In Charming Minimalistic Tunes
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Rafael Cohen, of the dance-punk band !!!, draws on his musical past as Las Palabras, crafting minimalistic sunny Latin pop in his native language. He plays some of these songs remotely.
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Free Livestream, Apr 30 | The Baptism
Baptism (of The Sharecropper’s Son & The Boy From Boonville) is a three-part poem by the award-winning poet and artist Carl Hancock Rux, now transformed into a short abstract film directed by artist Carrie Mae Weems.
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Free Livestream, May 5 | Punishment & Profit – Investors
Join us in a discussion with advocates and others working to disentangle institutional fund from the prison industry.
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Free Livestream, May 20 | Adolphus Hailstork @ 80: A Celebration
In celebration of composer and professor Adolphus Hailstork’s 80th birthday (April 17), we invite you to this concert, produced in collaboration with the Harlem Chamber Players.
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Free Livestream, May 24 | Get Lit with All Of It: Madeline Miller
This month, we revisit Miller’s 2012 New York Times Bestseller, The Song of Achilles, recipient of the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction.
