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Recommended
Episodes

Tarell Alvin McCraney
Chapters, EP521

Pico Iyer
How + Why, EP237

Rebecca Skloot
The Grammar, EP234


What They're
Saying

"If you think about preserving history, or you think about preserving culture, or uplifting culture, to a very large extent, you are talking about memory, you are talking about preserving memory."

Ann Burroughs
Chapters, EP551

"Fire is just immensely complex and managing it requires a lot of complex, thoughtful policy and a lot of agility. These are not things that institutions are known for."

Nick Mott and Justin Angle
The Fire Problem, EP525

"I came of age during the Asian American, the Black, the students of color movements. I came into this field with that burning mission to raise up underutilized or underserved people and voices."

Teresa Watanabe
Chapters, EP520

"I think we have to be able to think broadly enough and deeply enough to say what is it about a place and a people that will allow atrocious villainy to go on for hundreds and hundreds of years.

Natalie J. Graham
Adjust Accordingly, EP482

"Environmentalism and civil rights in 1979, two separate tracks. In some cases it took almost a decade, in some cases two decades to get the two movements to converge, and it's called environmental justice."

Dr. Robert D. Bullard
Engaging the World, EP406


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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning
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The 48 Laws of Power
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Then She Was Gone
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A Gentleman in Moscow
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The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye by Morrison, Toni
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The Bluest Eye
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Ready Player One
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