Inspired by the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements and by African-American activists and artists Giovanni’s poetry has become synonymous with the struggle of African-Americans, and especially the struggle of Black women.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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The film "The Dhamma Brothers" tells the story of a program which brought several Buddhist teachers to maximum security Donaldson Correctional Facility in Alabama to train a group of inmates in Vapassana meditation.
Richard Schweid loves eels. He tells Steve Paulson that scientists know very little about their life cycle, but that their numbers seem to be declining.
The clay tablets found at the Greek palace of Knossos had one of the strangest languages ever discovered. Margalit Fox tells the story of Linear B - and the obsessed, tragic lives of the two people who devoted their lives to cracking the code.
Peter Klimley is the world’s leading expert on Hammerhead and Great White sharks. He tells Jim Fleming what Hollywood got wrong in “Jaws."
Robert Neuwirth tells Steve Paulson about the process by which people acquire and improve dwellings in the world's cities even when they don't own land.
Nathan Radke talks about why the characters from the “Peanuts” comic strip can be seen as acting out the dilemmas of existentialism.
Karen Armstrong tried to be a nun, then left the convent and all but lost her faith. She talks with Anne Strainchamps about how she gradually found her way back to god.
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