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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

MigraZoom is a participatory photography project with migrants in transit through Mexico en route to the U.S. MigraZoom tells us their own migration experience trough the lens of a camera.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jorge Drexler is the first person from Uruguay to win an Academy Award, for the song "Al Otro Lado del Rio," which is featured in the film, "The Motorcycle Diaries."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Patrick Hennessey tells Jim Fleming about his war service in Iraq and Afghanistan and the role that books played in his life as a soldier.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

"Ghostwalk" is an intellectual thriller set partly in Isaac Newton's time and concerning his interest in alchemy.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Historian John D'Emilio tells Jim Fleming that Bayard Rustin was crucial to the civil rights movement but has been forgotten because he was gay.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Kurt Westergaard is the Danish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban in a Danish newspaper in 2005.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In this final segment, we take a left turn to punk.

Richard Hell co-founded the band Television in the mid-70s. He also created a look and sound that would eventually be called “punk.” 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The State Department used jazz musicians as a weapon in the cold war to win hearts and minds in the Third World. Louis Armstrong, Dizy Gillespie, Duke Ellington and Dave Brubek were among the so-called "jazz ambassadors."

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