Sacred music provided comfort and hope to generations of African Americans, from slavery to the civil rights movement. Music historian Robert Darden tells this inspiring story and we hear lots of great music.
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David Cantwell and Bill Friskics-Warren are the co-authors of “Heartaches by the number: Country Music’s 500 Greatest Singles.”
David Kusek tells Jim Fleming how the digital music revolution is changing the way people consume music and what the record industry will have to do to survive.
Cory Doctorow is a writer and digital activist who works to defend electronic freedom.
Joe Hill is the son of a writer you've probably heard of -- Stephen King. And Hill is following in his father's footsteps by writing the same kind of bone-chilling horror that his Dad is famous for. Hill's latest novel is called "The Fireman" and it's burning up the best-seller charts.
Fleda Brown, poet laureate of Delaware reads some of her poems and talks with Steve Paulson.
From the tiniest microscopic particles to some of the biggest structures on earth, the new science of astrobiology is leading the way to the discovery of life elsewhere in the universe. Dimitar Sasselov explains why the creation of the world's first artificial cells will revolutionize lifeon our planet.
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