Jessica Disu (FM Supreme) talks about using hiphop as a positive force to deliver messages of peace and non-violence.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Legal scholar Cass Sunstein believes humans are innately irrational.
Is the experience of wonder always unexpected? Or can we create opportunities for wonder?
Internationally acclaimed sound, video and installation artist Janet Cardiff weighs in.
You can also hear the extended interview with Cardiff here.
Barack Obama talks with Steve Paulson about his self-image and success.
Peter Edelman's Dangerous Idea? Putting people to work doing things we need done.
David Plotz is the editor of Slate Magazine (slate.com) and the author of "Good Book."
Angie da Silva is a historian of black cultural life in the United States, going back to the Civil War. She collects stories, both through oral history and archival research. But she's not merely a writer. She brings these stories to life through historical reenactment, often as a slave character she's created named Lila. She says that the stories she hears and tells are too often left out of our history books.
In this interview, she talks about her work and tells the story of Mary Meachum, a free black abolitionist who worked on the Mississippi in St. Louis.
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