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Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference, by David Shimer

In 'Rigged,' A Comprehensive Account Of Decades Of Election Interference

5:00am June 09, 2020

by Philip Ewing

Russia's attack on the 2016 election was novel in its scope and its methods, but the underlying principles were old, writes David Shimer in an important new history.

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'Cult Of Glory' Reveals The Dark History Of The Texas Rangers

1:23pm June 08, 2020

by Dave Davies

Author Doug Swanson chronicles centuries of abuse within the famed Texas law enforcement agency, including burning villages, hunting runaway slaves and murdering Mexicans and Mexican-Americans.

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Poet Elaine Kahn says the Poetry Field School had its origin in a tweet.

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Poetry Field School Offers Long-Distance Solace During A Pandemic

10:00am June 07, 2020

by Clare Schneider

Poet Elaine Kahn teaches video conference workshops for aspiring poets, as part of her Poetry Field School project. She says the pandemic and quarantine have had an impact on her students' writing.

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Douglas Boin Wants To 'Think Differently About Marginalized People' In New Book On Ancient Rome

8:01am June 07, 2020

NRR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to historian Douglas Boin about his book, Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome.

Sen. Tim Kaine, left, and then-Charlottesville mayor Michael Signer visit a temporary memorial Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, where Heather Heyer was killed when a car rammed into a crowd of people protesting a white nationalist rally Charlottesville, Va.

In 'Cry Havoc,' Former Charlottesville Mayor Details A Tragic Day

6:45pm June 06, 2020

by Michel Martin

"The value of having fought for things and standing at the end, having the experience of having fought for them in the real world, there's nothing like it," Michael Signer tells NPR.

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This List Of Books, Films And Podcasts About Racism Is A Start, Not A Panacea

10:19am June 06, 2020

by Isabella Rosario

We've compiled a list of places you can go to learn more about systemic racism — acknowledging that, while it's important to have information, this list is not a prescription.

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Your Bookshelf May Be Part Of The Problem

8:50am June 06, 2020

by Juan Vidal

Anti-racist reading lists are making the rounds right now — and they can be useful if people do the work of reading. But critic Juan Vidal suggests you look closer to home, to your own bookshelf.

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Connie Schultz On Her Debut Novel And The Story Of American Women

8:01am June 06, 2020

NPR's Scott Simon talks to author Connie Schultz about her debut novel, "The Daughters of Erietown."

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In 'A Burning,' Striving, Dreaming And Joking In The Face Of Oppression

8:01am June 06, 2020

by Scott Simon

Megha Majumdar's new novel is set during the aftermath of a terror attack in India, and examines the intersecting lives of three people affected by the events and the government's response.

Brit Bennett says it has been "surreal" to publish her post-civil rights era book this week. She is also the author of The Mothers.

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Brit Bennett Set Her Novel 50 Years Ago — She Didn't Expect It To Be 'Timely'

7:54pm June 05, 2020

by Mary Louise Kelly

The Vanishing Half is about African American twins — one lives as a black woman, the other "passes" as white. Passing is "an act of self-creation and also an act of self-destruction," Bennett says.

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