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The Strategic King: MLK's Visionary Leadership
WNYC and the Apollo Theater's 14th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration focused this year on King's skill — and enduring influence — as a political media strategist.
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Looming Impeachment Trial Adds Urgency To Senators' Campaign Push
Morning Edition
The four senators running for president will mostly be off the campaign trail in the final days before Iowa votes. They'll work around the impeachment trial with Skype, surrogates and red-eye flights. -
King Stories
Specials
Notably one of the most significant Americans in the 20th Century, Dr. King is an iconic figure. But who was the man? This special offers snapshots into his personality and character.
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Here's Why Your Con Ed Bill Just Got Higher
State regulators have approved a rate hike, meaning you can expect to pay roughly 4.2 percent more in electric bills this year, 4.7 percent next year, and 4 percent in 2022.
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$11 Billion And Counting: Trump's Border Wall Would Be The World's Most Costly
The costs keep piling up for Trump's border wall which has a current pricetag of $11 billion — nearly $20 million per mile. It's more expensive than any other wall under construction in the world. -
U.S. Navy To Name Aircraft Carrier After WWII Hero Doris Miller
Miller was a mess attendant on the West Virginia when he jumped in to man a machine gun during the Pearl Harbor attack. He is the first African American to have an aircraft carrier named after him. -
Kansas City Chiefs To Play San Francisco 49ers In Super Bowl LIV
The Chiefs beat the Tennessee Titans 35-24 in the AFC Championship on Sunday. The 49ers followed with an NFC victory over the Green Bay Packers, 37-20. The Chiefs and 49ers will meet in Miami Feb. 2. -
This Week in Politics: Ten Years After Citizens United
New analysis shows the megadonor is more powerful than ever.
Arts and Culture
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A Special MLK Edition of Big Onion Walking Tours
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Seth Kamil, co-founder of Big Onion Walking Tours. -
Reginald Dwayne Betts Reads from “Felon”
The New Yorker Radio Hour
When Betts was sixteen years old, he was sent to prison for his part in a carjacking. In solitary confinement, he discovered poetry. - Edit Bucket
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A Rift Within the Romance Novel Industry
The Takeaway
Romance is the publishing world’s most lucrative genre.
Tech and Media
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Warren, Sanders and the Question of Sexism
On the Media
In the run-up to Iowa, a new story threatens a shaky peace between the two leading progressive candidates. -
Why Some Newspapers Are Rethinking Presidential Endorsements
The Takeaway
Some newspapers are rethinking not only their endorsement process, but their entire editorial and opinion sections altogether. -
Climate Change, News Corp, and the Australian Fires
On the Media
In Australia, the conservative press has been denying that climate change is fueling the bushfires.
Music For Your Day
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Weekly Music Roundup: Three New Collaborations and Varo
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This week, old songs made new by Varo, and new collaborative songs from Rhiannon Giddens and Sxip Shirey, Anoushka Shankar and Alev Lenz, and Norah Jones with Wolff Parkinson White. -
Rwandan Band The Good Ones Offers Strength and Peace
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The Good Ones are a band Rwandan genocide survivors who make acoustic folk songs. With intricate harmonies and unique instruments, the band performs their latest music, in-studio. -
L.A. Band La Santa Cecilia Sparks Joy With Salsa-Punk
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Los Angeles-based band La Santa Cecilia draws upon their Mexican-American roots, and dips into cumbia, jazz, rock, klezmer, as they see fit. They play new and old tunes, in-studio. -
Watch: Chamber Soul-Pop by yMusic and Emily King
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Prolific chamber sextet yMusic and pop-soul songwriter Emily King, present a one-of-a-kind collaboration that might meld orchestral instruments with contemporary R&B, in-studio. -
Drummer Marcus Gilmore Creates Continuous Melodies
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Drummer and composer Marcus Gilmore carries on the creative openness of his drum elders and underscores the drum set as melodic instrument (as augmented by Sunhouse Sensory Percussion.)
