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Since the invasion of Ukraine and ban on foreign reporters, Russia seems to have sunk into an even deeper shadow than in the darkest times of the Soviet Union. Only by presenting himself as an historian was Italian journalist Marzio G. Mian able to penetrate the Russian heartland, leading to his groundbreaking cover story for Harpers’ Magazine, “Behind the New Iron Curtain.”

The Blue Sweater is the inspiring story of a woman who left a career in international banking to spend her life on a quest to understand global poverty. It all started back home in Virginia, with the blue sweater, a gift that quickly became her prized possession - until the day she outgrew it and gave it away to Goodwill. Eleven years later in Africa, she spotted a young boy wearing that very sweater, with her name still on the tag inside.

Tune in to Chillin' w/ Alex and Chris for your weekly dose of news, society, and culture, served up with a side of serious laughs! Join hosts Alex and Chris as they dive into the latest headlines, unpack societal trends, and dissect cultural phenomena, all while keeping things light, fun, and hilariously entertaining. If you're looking for smart takes without the stuffiness, and plenty of banter to brighten your day, this is the podcast for you.

"A Space for Understanding" is a conversational podcast dedicated to building bridges between people from all walks of life. While we may share common threads, our perspectives often lead us to many different conclusions. Through thoughtful talks, this podcast aims to uncover the inherent value in every individual—whether it’s my guest or the people we observe in the world around us. lets go! I’m your host, Alex Siller. Join me as I listen, explore, and share what I discover. This is more than just conversation; it’s an invitation to see the world through a broader lens. Come along for...

In How to Lose the Hounds, Celeste Winston explores marronage—the practice of flight from and placemaking beyond slavery—as a guide to police abolition. She examines historically Black maroon communities in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, that have been subjected to violent excesses of police power from slavery until the present day.

Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship between blackness and animality in the history of Western science and philosophy, Becoming Human breaks open the rancorous debate between Black critical theory and posthumanism. Through the cultural terrain of literature by Toni Morrison, Nalo Hopkinson, Audre Lorde, and Octavia Butler, the art of Wangechi Mutu and Ezrom Legae, and the oratory of Frederick Douglass, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson both critiques and displaces the racial logic that has dominated scientific thought since the Enlightenment.

Memphis Mayhem weaves the tale of the racial collision that led to a cultural, sociological, and musical revolution. Beginning with the 1870s yellow fever epidemics that created racial imbalance as wealthy whites fled the city, David Less moves from W. C. Handy's codification of blues in 1909 to the mid-century advent of interracial musical acts like Booker T. & the M.G.'s, the birth of punk, and finally to the growth of a music tourism industry.

Nathan Thompson is a researcher at the Igarapé Institute in Rio de Janeiro. Robert Muggah is Research Director at the Igarapé Institute in Rio de Janeiro and Research and Policy Director of the SecDev Foundation in Ottawa. After years of shoring up security alliances in Latin America and the Caribbean, Brazil is now looking eastward, asserting its influence across the Atlantic Ocean.