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New Yorker staff writer Rachel Aviv tells the story of Niveen Ismail, whose young son was taken away from her and put up for adoption by the state of California, despite her fight to get him back. Lenny Cooke, director Benny Safdie, and producer Adam Shopkorn on the documentary, “Lenny Cooke,” about why Lenny, who was rated higher than Lebron James when he was in high school, never played in the NBA. Jesse Eisenberg talks about the publication of his second play, “The Revisionist.”

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We remember Nelson Mandela with former Mayor David Dinkins. has been named as the next NYPD commissioner. Hear about his record, from Boston to Los Angeles and yes, New York city. Plu...

“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead,” Nelson Mandela once said.

Today, the world mourns the loss of the great Nelson Mandela, ...

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Mandela: An Audio History is from the award-winning radio series documenting the struggle against apartheid through intimate first-person accounts of Nelson Mandela himself, as well as those who fought with him, and against him.

Recognized as one of the most comprehensive oral histories of apartheid ever broadcast, the series weaves ...