Sacred music provided comfort and hope to generations of African Americans, from slavery to the civil rights movement. Music historian Robert Darden tells this inspiring story and we hear lots of great music.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Cory Doctorow is a writer and digital activist who works to defend electronic freedom.
Ayun Halliday tells Anne Strainchamps about being a young, hip Mom, and how motherhood is different from her expectations.
David Kusek tells Jim Fleming how the digital music revolution is changing the way people consume music and what the record industry will have to do to survive.
Physicist Clifford Pickover talks with Steve Paulson about Magic Squares and why people get hooked on them.
Daniel Pinchbeck is the heir to Timothy Leary: he explores and advocates the use of psychedelic drugs.
Criminologist Nils Christie's Dangerous Idea? Treat prisoners as people.
Philosopher Samuel Scheffler bookmarks "The Children of Men" by P.D. James.
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