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Another Word for Love, by Carvell Wallace

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Writer Carvell Wallace on past pain and forgiveness: Letting go is 'always available'

1:42pm May 16, 2024

by Tonya Mosley

Wallace is known for his celebrity profiles, but his new memoir, Another Word For Love, is about his own life, growing up unhoused, Black and queer, and getting his start as a writer at the age of 40.

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'Whale Fall' centers the push-and-pull between dreams and responsibilities

8:20am May 16, 2024

by Kristen Martin

Elizabeth O'Connor's spare and bracing debut novel provides a stark reckoning with what it means to be seen from the outside, both as a person and as a people.

Target confirmed that it won't be carrying its LGBTQ+ merchandise for Pride month this June in some stores after the discount retailer received backlash last year. Here, Pride month merchandise is displayed at a Target store in Nashville, Tenn, in May 2023.

Target scales back on its LGBTQ+ merchandise ahead of Pride Month 2024

6:53pm May 15, 2024

by Jonathan Franklin

In a statement to NPR, a spokesperson for the retail giant says it is committed to supporting the LGBTQ+ community year-round, not only during the month of June.

Study says Latinas achieving beyond the home still feel pressure of traditional roles

5:59pm May 15, 2024

by Stella Chavez

A report from the Pew Research Center says Hispanic women in general continue to face pressure to uphold traditional roles, despite advances in educational attainment and entrepreneurship.

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Is this the beginning of the end of beauty pageants?

5:27pm May 15, 2024

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Amy Argetsinger, author of There She Was: The Secret History of Miss America, about the recent controversy surrounding the resignations of Miss USA and Miss Teen USA.

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Announcing the 2023 College Podcast Challenge Honorable Mentions

4:29pm May 15, 2024

Here are the honorable mentions from the 2023 College Podcast Challenge. Congrats!

Covers of Pages of Mourning and The Cemetery of Untold Stories

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Two new novels investigate what makes magic, what is real and imagined

6:00am May 15, 2024

by Marcela Davison Avilés

Both of these novels, Pages of Mourning and The Cemetery of Untold Stories, from an emerging writer and a long-celebrated one, respectively, walk an open road of remembering love, grief, and fate.

Serj Tankian, singer for System of a Down

System of a Down's Serj Tankian on his memoir, why a new album hasn't come since 2005

4:46pm May 14, 2024

System of a Down singer Serj Tankian covers fleeing the Lebanese Civil War as a child, advocating for recognition of the Armenian Genocide, and why his band hasn't made a new album since 2005.

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Issa Rae still thinks about the Paris trip she didn't take

4:25pm May 14, 2024

by Rachel Martin

Writer and actor Issa Rae draws from the Wild Card deck and tells us about the guiding belief that helps her make sense of the world.

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Canadian author Alice Munro as she receives a Man Booker International award at Trinity College Dublin, in Dublin, Ireland, on June 25, 2009.

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Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning short story author, dies at 92

4:25pm May 14, 2024

by Andrew Limbong

The Canadian writer was known for her masterfully crafted short stories. Throughout her long career, she earned a number of prestigious awards including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.