David Margolick is the author of “Strange Fruit,” a history of the revolutionary Billie Holiday song. Margolick tells Jim Fleming who wrote the song, what happened the first time Holiday sang it, and what it’s lasting impact has been.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Deborah Scranton gives cameras directly to soldiers, She edits their footage over the internet.
Carolyn Wyman talks about the history of Wonder Bread. It really does seem to be the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Legal scholar Cass Sunstein believes humans are innately irrational.
Don Gurnett has been working with NASA, recording audio from space for years. He plays some of his favorite space sounds for Jim Fleming and explains where they come from.
Cheng-Sim Lim knows her kung—fu movies. She’s the curator of “Heroic Grace: The Chinese Martial Arts Film” at UCLA’S Film and Television archive
Poet Steve Roggenbuck BookMarks "Feminism is for Everybody" by Bell Hooks.
Ellen Ruppel Shell talks with Anne Strainchamps about the effects of our obsession with low prices.
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