Mucha Lucha is a Warner Brothers cartoon based on the Mexican tradition of masked wrestlers. The cartoon is the brainchild of an Australian and a Chinese.
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At the heart of many Americans' fear of black men is an ugly stereotype -- the stereotype of the black criminal. Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad traces some of our current attitudes about race and crime to the late 19th century, when sociologists first began looking at crime statistics.
Steve Paulson spoke with Kurt Vonnegut just after his 83rd birthday, and Vonnegut recalled his experiences during the fire-bombing of Dresden.
What exactly happens in the brain when you “decide” to do something?
The sonic sepia of a rare 78RPM lets us eavesdrop on Cantor Isaiah Meisels, singing prayers for theJewish High Holy Days in 1907.
Jean Auel is the author of the phenomenally successful “Earth’s Children” series of books. Auel tells Anne Strainchamps about the extensive hands on research that informs her work.
Classical pianist Leon Fleisher tells Jim Fleming about the neurological disorder that crippled his right hand for over thirty years and what it meant for his musicianship.
In this extended interview, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dan Fagin discusses "Toms River" — his remarkable investigative story of industrial pollution in a New Jersey town — and why it's so difficult to prove the link between environmental toxins and cancer clusters.
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