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The White House Announces New Steps To Try To Curb Surging Gun Violence

As part of the efforts, the Treasury Department will inform states that they can use funds allotted by the American Rescue Plan to aid in reducing gun violence.
The Teamsters Want To Unionize Amazon Workers. Here's What That Means

At a convention of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters this week, the union announced plans to create a special division focused on organizing Amazon workers across the country.
Connecticut Has Become The Latest State To Legalize Marijuana For Recreational Use

Gov. Ned Lamont signed legislation on Tuesday that will allow people age 21 and older to possess and consume marijuana beginning in July. Connecticut becomes the 19th state to legalize cannabis.
A Strawberry Moon Will Rise This Thursday — No, It Won't Be Red Or Pink

Its name has ties to strawberry picking season, and when Thursday's strawberry moon appears above the horizon, the marginal supermoon will look large and gold.
SCOTUS Decision Limits NCAA Control Over Compensating College Athletes

The Takeaway

Over the years, public frustration with the NCAA and their rules pertaining to the compensation of student-athletes has grown.

Amythyst Kiah's 'Wary + Strange'

All Of It

Amythyst Kiah on Wary + Strange.
Closing the Philanthropy Gap

The Takeaway

The philanthropy world has long ignored the needs of Black girls and women.
Reclaiming Black Spaces Walking Tour

All Of It

A new walking tour from the Tenement Museum sheds light on the history of Black New Yorkers in the Lower East Side.

"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.

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The Newspaperman Who Championed Black Tulsa

The New Yorker Radio Hour

A. J. Smitherman founded one of the first Black-owned dailies. He addressed his eloquence and his ire at civic nuisances and at the gravest injustices of American life.
Behind Closed Doors

On the Media

When and why the government surveils journalists; is there a headline beyond “Putin and Biden talked to each other?”; and revisiting the Pentagon Papers.
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.

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.
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.
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.
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.