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Buffy Sainte-Marie on Her New Album, "Power in the Blood"

74 year-old Cree musician Buffy Sainte-Marie has done a lot since she was 24. She got her Ph.D. She got politically active in the American Indian Movement and the anti-GMO movement. She raised a family. She was even on Sesame Street for five seasons—and was the first woman to breast feed on American television.

But most of us know Buffy Sainte-Marie as an iconic 60s folk singer with such hits as "Universal Soldier" and "It's My Way." And now, some 50 years after her debut album, Buffy has a new one. It’s called “Power in the Blood.” This new CD proves that this Oscar, Juno, and Golden Globe award-winning woman's career is not over yet.

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Baba Brinkman on the Rap Canterbury Tales

Rapper Baba Brinkman tells Anne Strainchamps that Geoffrey Chaucer’s work has a lot in common with the language of hip hop music.

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Christopher Caldwell on Muslim Immigration

Christopher Caldwell talks with Steve Paulson about the European discomfort with the rising tide of Muslim immigration.

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Bon Iver Puts Wisconsin Hometown On The Map With Indie Music Fest

Bon Iver's Justin Vernon has created a nearly perfect summer music festival in Eau Claire, Wisconsin -- his hometown.  25,000 people spent two days camping by a river, throwing frisbees and listening to indie bands. Festival narrator and local writer Michael Perry shares the story behind the town, the festival, and the musical legend.

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Culture Clash

Cultural scientist Alana Conner believes we all navigate different identities, and not just along racial or ethnic lines. She finds many cultural conflicts boil down to two competing types of selves.

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David Orr on Modern Poetry

David Orr says modern poetry shouldn't intimidate us. He's the author of "Beautiful and Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry."

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Elizabeth Little on "Biting the Wax Tadpole: Confessions of a Language Fanatic"

Elizabeth Little is a writer and editor who collects languages. She tells Jim Fleming about the perils of learning tonal languages.

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Coleman Barks on the Sufi Poet Rumi

After all the debates about the Muslim world, it’s refreshing to look back at one of the world’s great mystics - the Sufi poet Rumi.

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