Justine Kenin

Justine Kenin appears in the following:

Trailblazer sports reporter Liz Clarke reflects on her 37 years in journalism

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Liz Clarke for an exit interview looking back on her 37 years in journalism — 25 of those as a trailblazing sports reporter at The Washington Post.

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How a writer found healing in the story of her enslaved ancestors

Friday, April 14, 2023

NPR's Andrew Limbong talks with Dionne Ford about her new book, Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing.

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Texas judge's anti-abortion drug ruling is indefensible, says lawyer

Monday, April 10, 2023

NPR's Juana Summers talks with lawyer Adam Unikowsky about a Texas judge's ruling overturning FDA approval for the abortion pill mifepristone.

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SNAP responds to Maryland AG report on decades of sex abuse by the Catholic church

Friday, April 07, 2023

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with David Lorenz, director of the Maryland chapter of the Survivors Network of those abused by Priests, after the report on decades-long sex abuse in the Baltimore Diocese.

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How to celebrate Easter when church isn't your thing

Thursday, April 06, 2023

Author Casper ter Kuile gives tips on how to create new rituals around Easter, when church just isn't your thing.

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Legal expert weighs in on Trump's possible legal defense

Wednesday, April 05, 2023

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with legal expert Randall Eliason about Trump's possible legal defense strategies.

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Novel 'Romantic Comedy' explores desirability, entertainment and writing as a cure

Tuesday, April 04, 2023

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Curtis Sittenfeld about her latest novel, Romantic Comedy, about a woman in her 30s working for this weekly comedy sketch show.

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Father-daughter memoir 'The Kneeling Man' highlights the complex life of a Black spy

Tuesday, April 04, 2023

NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with author Leta McCollough Seletzky about the father-daughter memoir The Kneeling Man, highlighting the complex life of her father's role as a Black spy.

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Keeping that same energy: Why Black women ball players are criticized differently

Monday, April 03, 2023

NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with Bill Rhoden of ESPN's Andscape about the double standards baked into basketball culture and women's sports.

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Everything is bigger as Texas hosts men's and women's NCAA Tournament Championships

Friday, March 31, 2023

NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with Nicole Auerbach, senior writer for The Athletic, ahead of the Men's and Women's Final Four games happening across Texas this weekend.

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With a few 1 seeds, Cinderellas and underdogs left, this Sweet 16 has everything

Thursday, March 23, 2023

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with The Athletic senior writer Nicole Auerbach about this weekend's Sweet 16 matchups in men's and women's college basketball tournaments and how Cinderella teams have fared.

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Coaching culture & longevity: The secret recipe to a Sweet 16 college basketball run

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with author Graham Honaker about this moment in college basketball in which iconic coaches' retirements coincide with around 21,000 student athletes transferring schools.

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The loneliness of the central character in Esther Yi's 'Y/N' is universal

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Yi about her novel, which features a Korean American woman who finds awakening in her devotion to a K-pop star.

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Residents who live near Jack Daniels distilleries have to deal with whiskey fungus

Monday, March 06, 2023

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Lexington Herald Leader reporter Janet Patton about the whiskey fungus plaguing thousands of residents who live near Jack Daniels distilleries in Tennessee and Kentucky.

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Bills targeting drag have a long history in the U.S., says historian

Monday, March 06, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with historian Jules Gill-Peterson of Johns Hopkins University about the long history of laws targeting drag in the U.S.

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20 years after Rooney rule, the NFL landscape is still bleak for Black coaches

Friday, March 03, 2023

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Michael Lee of The Washington post about the NFL's bleak history hiring Black head coaches.

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How Black resistance has been depicted in films over the years

Thursday, March 02, 2023

From Something Good — Negro Kiss to Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, Black cinema has long served as a form of resistance.

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How Black resistance in film has been received by the public through the years

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Library of Congress scholar-in-residence and Black Film Archive creator Maya Cade about Black resistance in film and how it has been received by the public over the years.

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New book 'Redaction' humanizes redacted lawsuits through portraits and poems

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with poet and activist Reginald Dwayne Betts and artist Titus Kaphar about their new book, Redaction. The book is based on poems and portraits from redacted lawsuits.

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Major League Baseball is on the clock

Monday, February 27, 2023

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Grant Brisbee of The Athletic about the new Major League Baseball rules that have some baseball purists outraged.

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