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Cherokee chief John Ross battled the U.S. government for decades on behalf of his people.

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Cherokee Chief John Ross Is The Unsung Hero Of 'Jacksonland'

12:23pm May 19, 2015

by NPR Staff

Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep's new book examines a dark chapter in American history: the Cherokee Trail of Tears and the chief who used the tools of democracy to try to protect his people.

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A helicopter flies over a section of Baltimore affected by riots. Richard Rothstein writes that recent unrest in Baltimore is the legacy of a century of federal, state and local policies designed to "quarantine Baltimore's black population in isolated slu

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Historian Says Don't 'Sanitize' How Our Government Created Ghettos

1:25pm May 18, 2015

Richard Rothstein, who studies residential segregation in America, concludes: "Federal, state and local governments purposely created racial boundaries in these cities."

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Connie and Gerald Renfrow outside their Osage Avenue home.

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What It's Like Living On The Block That Philadelphia Bombed 30 Years Ago

1:20pm May 15, 2015

by Gene Demby

Longtime Philly resident Gerald Renfrow wants you to know that there's more to his block than what happened on May 13, 1985.

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1921 Matisse, 'Seated Woman,' To Be Reunited With Rosenberg Heirs

11:44am May 15, 2015

by Elizabeth Blair

In Germany, a Matisse painting is being returned to Paul Rosenberg's family. It was one of more than 400 paintings stolen by the Nazis from the "first family" of art in Paris in the '20s and '30s.

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Officers stand watch at the intersection of West North Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue as protesters walk for Freddie Gray in Baltimore in April. Gray died from spinal injuries about a week after he was arrested and transported in a police van.

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Police Rethink Tactics Amid New Technologies And Social Pressure

9:24pm May 14, 2015

by Martin Kaste

One officer says relations with the public are "about as bad as I've seen," as a take-charge method of policing collides with a more skeptical citizenry that can record and disseminate video anywhere.

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The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., still has all 82 of the William Shakespeare first folios Henry Folger collected.

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A Fortune In Folios: One Man's Hunt For Shakespeare's First Editions

10:37am May 14, 2015

by NPR Staff

Henry Folger once spent nearly a year's salary on a William Shakespeare first folio. In The Millionaire and the Bard, Andrea Mays chronicles his obsession with collecting the playwright's work.

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Margie Lachman says Abraham Maslow's research had a big influence on modern psychology.

How Did Abraham Maslow Change Psychology?

9:14am May 14, 2015

by NPR/TED Staff

Brandeis Psychology professor Margie Lachman works in the same office where Abraham Maslow developed his hierarchy of needs. She describes his lasting influence on psychology.

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United States Steel Mon Valley Works Edgar Thomson Plant, 2013, from The Notion of Family (Aperture, 2014).

A Rust Belt Story Retold, Through Portraits Of The Women Who Lived It

3:18pm May 13, 2015

by Shereen Marisol Meraji

LaToya Ruby Frazier's photography tells the story of the black community living in the shadow of Andrew Carnegie's first steel mill through portraits of her grandmother, her mother and herself.

American English has a rich history of regionalisms.

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Do We Talk Funny? 51 American Colloquialisms

9:25pm May 12, 2015

by Linton Weeks

American English has a rich history of regionalisms — which sometimes tell us a lot about where we come from.

New Book Explores Bobby Fuller's Mysterious Death

9:00pm May 11, 2015

by Alex Cohen

A new book tells the story of Bobby Fuller, who was best-known for the song "I Fought the Law." He was a talented guitarist and producer who moved from El Paso, Texas, to LA. He was on the verge of his big break when his body was found in his car doused in gasoline. The Los Angeles police ruled it an accidental death.

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