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The Legacies Of Black Icons Sam Cooke, Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) And Malcolm X

1:29pm February 26, 2021

by Terry Gross

The film One Night in Miami imagines a night in 1964 where Cooke, Clay, Malcolm X and Jim Brown meet. We listen back to interviews with biographers Peter Guralnick, Jonathan Eig and Alex Haley.

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Photographers Make Kids' Wildest Dreams Come To Life

11:32am February 26, 2021

by Kelley Dickens

A husband and wife photography team create avant-garde and futuristic shoots for their clients. The couple hopes the portraits transcend the typical images of beauty.

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Greenboro Bound Plans Virtual Literary Festival In May

5:20pm February 25, 2021

by Paul Garber

The literary festival Greensboro Bound is going virtual this year after last year's event was canceled due to the pandemic.

Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans, by Michaeleen Doucleff

'Hunt, Gather, Parent' Offers Lessons Collected Around The World

6:00am February 25, 2021

by Rachel Martin

NPR's Michaeleen Doucleff found that parenting books she read after becoming a mom left a lot out. When she went through a tough period with her daughter, she traveled the world in search of guidance.

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Véronique Tadjo's 'In The Company Of Men' Focuses On West Africa's Ebola Outbreak

5:09pm February 24, 2021

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with writer Véronique Tadjo about her book, In The Company of Men. It's a novel about the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, first published in French in 2017.

The Pandemic Has Made An Unlikely Star Out Of A Brooklyn Librarian

4:57pm February 24, 2021

by Sally Herships

The pandemic has yielded a silver lining for the Brooklyn Public Library. Bilingual librarian Tenzin Kalsang's Tibetan story time has been drawing audiences in the thousands.

Tim O'Brien was a foot soldier during the Vietnam War. "The problem for me really is that I questioned the rectitude of the war," he says. "I thought I was doing the wrong thing by being there."

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Tim O'Brien On Late-In-Life Fatherhood And The Things He Carried From Vietnam

1:17pm February 24, 2021

by Terry Gross

Now 74, O'Brien didn't become a father until his late 50s. He reflects on writing, mortality and his experiences in Vietnam in the new documentary, The War and Peace of Tim O'Brien.

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Two Truths and a Lie, by Ellen McGarrahan

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A Botched Execution Leads To A Search For Answers In 'Two Truths And A Lie'

1:16pm February 24, 2021

by Maureen Corrigan

Ellen McGarrahan was a young reporter for The Miami Herald, when she witnessed an execution that went horribly wrong. She revisits the case of Jesse Tafero in an intense new true crime book.

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On 'The Kitchen Front,' 4 Women Cook Their Way To Victory

7:00am February 24, 2021

by Maria Godoy

In Jennifer Ryan's new novel, set in England in 1942, four women from different backgrounds compete in a cooking contest with a possibly life-changing prize: The chance to cohost a BBC cooking show.

Poet and author Lawrence Ferlinghetti, pictured above in 1960, was born on March 24, 1919.

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Beat Poet And Small-Press Publisher, Dies At 101

8:05pm February 23, 2021

by Tom Vitale

In 1956, Ferlinghetti published the first edition of Allen Ginsberg's Howl. According to one critic, his greatest accomplishments were fighting censorship and starting a small-press revolution.

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