Craig Werner tells Jim Fleming that the Soul Music of the 1970s combined the secular and the sacred and was heavily influenced by gospel music.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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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.
How accurate is Barack Obama’s memoir Dreams from My Father? In this UNCUT interview, Steve Paulson talks with acclaimed biographer David Maraniss about Obama’s real coming-of-age story, his struggle with racial identity and his early political ambitions.
Producer Sara Nics on the story behind this show... how she's tried to come to terms with our narrative selves.
Deborah Madison talks with Anne Strainchamps about the growing popularity of farmers’ markets.
Betsy Israel tells Jim Fleming our society has always been suspicious of unmarried women and talks about examples from Louisa Mat Alcott to Ally McBeal.
Dominique Raccah tells Anne Strainchamps why she loves hearing the actual voices of people like Denise Levertov, W.H. Auden and Robert Frost.
"Independent People" by Halldór Laxness reviewed by author David Mitchell ("Cloud Atlas")
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