July 4th is celebrated in the U. S. as Independence Day, the day that our congress signed a...
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July 4th is celebrated in the U. S. as Independence Day, the day that our congress signed a...
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#89: Some humans still own other humans
Slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1888, but there are still thousands of modern slaves working...
I’m going to tell you a very sad and very wondrous story. A little over 350 years ago, when...
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I decided on my own that Yeats’ piece in the last episode was about February, but I have some...
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I Was Reading About Jesse James
When I was growing up and learning songs from Jerry Silverman’s folk songbooks, there was song...
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Poetry turn-offs? There are lot of them. There’s the fatiguing stretching of language that can...
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It’s now a commonplace to note how divided the United States is politically. The way the story is...
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Justin Wren is an American humanitarian worker and a professional mixed martial artist, currently...
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Today’s piece uses my own words to present some images regarding American musician and songwriter...
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SPARKVILLE Ep3: Kayne West claims Slavery was a choice.
Earlier this week Kayne made a statement that has agitated the hive mind and now it’s all over...
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A couple of episodes ago as I presented a performance using words by American poet Henry...
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Remember back a few episodes when the Parlando Project performed a question posed by poet Vijay...
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What does Oprah and "john of god" have in common? what is the connection between these people and...
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Afro-American Paul Laurence Dunbar had to succeed in the all-to-conventional 19th century poetry...
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Episode 2: Slavery's Stick. Looking at the Background with Machado de Assis
In this episode we tone it down a bit and look at a single short story, "The Case of the Stick"...
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Emily Dickinson's mysterious poem that might be about slavery and the Civil War or about creative...
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#68: Discovering Rio's Little Africa
Political scientist Maurício Santoro takes The Brazilian Report to discover Little Africa, the...
UNCAGED - Restoring The Lives Of Trafficking Victims
Welcome to The Big Impact Episode 115 and the inspiring idea being launched by Kim...
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Ethan Johnston - Kidnapped. Blinded. Enslaved.
BIG IMPACT Podcast Ep 110 features our conversation with Ethan Johnston. Born in Ethiopia,...
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In this short episode we will be discussing the case for reparations. With the Nation divided by...
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