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In Afghanistan, Fighting The Taliban Increasingly Involves Covert Operations
The U.S. has been fighting in Afghanistan since shortly after 9/11, ousting the Taliban and their harsh interpretation of Islam from power that fall. But the insurgent group as which it reformed has plagued Afghanistan with violence ever...
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How Response To George Floyd’S Death Reflects ‘Accumulated Grievance’ Of Black America
In the days since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody, there have been peaceful protests, violent clashes and persistent calls for justice. But there is a long history behind this particular shocking event. Professor...
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Firearms Museum Takes Aim At Understanding History, Culture Of Guns
Wyoming is the least populous state in the U.S. but ranks near the top in per capita gun ownership. It's also home to the nation's most comprehensive collection of historical firearms. Jeffrey Brown reports from Cody, where a renovated...
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Taylor Branch: Pillar of Fire
Taylor Branch, author of "Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965" discusses Martin Luther King Jr.'s spiritual and political legacy.
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Following The Way Of Love Through Divisions, Upheaval And Uncertainty
The Most Rev. Michael Curry is the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church of the U.S. His latest book "Love is the Way: Holding Onto Hope in Troubling Times," reveals how love fueled his journey from descendant of slaves to the top...
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How faculty mentors can help first-generation students succeed
A new initiative by the University of California system uses first-generation faculty to guide first-generation students, with the goal of decreasing dropout rates. As part of our series Rethinking College, Hari Sreenivasan visits UCLA...
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Getting books from the U.S. feeds these students' love of reading
Books For Africa has sent more than 41 million books over the last 30 years to 53 different countries, where students say the variety of titles have made them enthusiastic readers. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports.
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As The Holidays Approach, Demand For Food Soars In The U.S.
As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches millions of people are out of work
and struggling to put food on the table. And as food insecurity soars
across the nation due COVID-19, the hardest hit are often children and
people of color....
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Nicodemus Kansas
The wave of migration across the U.S. in the mid-1800's included people looking to live in open spaces, with land to grow crops and the opportunity to have a better life. After the Civil War, that included freed slaves and their...
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Despite high gun ownership, Scandinavia remains largely free of firearm violence
Survivors of Norway’s deadliest massacre are urging the United States to tighten up gun laws to put an end to school shootings. In Sweden, sporadic gang-fueled gun crime just helped install a far-right party in power. Both countries have...
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Relics and treasures reveal U.S. history through African-American lens
One hundred years in the making, the National Museum of African American History and Culture will open on Saturday in Washington. The museum presents history through objects both celebratory and sobering -- showcasing everything from...
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U.S. World Power in Decline?
As part of his continuing series of reports examining the country's economic future, Paul Solman sits down with Yale historian Paul Kennedy to discuss the rise and fall of the U.S. and other great economic powers
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Why South is epicenter of AIDS crisis in America
The epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in America is Atlanta and the southeast, and among the hardest hit populations are gay and bisexual black men. According to the CDC, half of them will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetimes if current...
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The Long History Of Presidents As Authors
Journalist and historian Craig Fehrman has written a book called “Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote.” He sits down with John Yang to discuss the long history of presidential writing, the...
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Despite Virus Fears, Arizona’s Changing Demographic Prepares To Go To The Polls
Across the country, election officials are scrambling to decide how to
adjust to the coronavirus pandemic. Louisiana and Georgia have postponed their primary contests, and candidates have eliminated public rallies entirely. But in...
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Can seafood industry get Americans to eat local fish?
Off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, there's not much cod left, but there's plenty of dogfish. It's a creature most Americans have never heard of, much less consumed. Instead, Americans are eating imported tuna, salmon and shrimp,...
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J.D. Salinger: An Appreciation (Jan. 28, 2010) (9:16)
The enigmatic American author, best known for "A Catcher in the Rye," died at age 91. Jim Lehrer talks with experts about Salinger's influence on American literature.
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How The Autobiography Of A Muslim Slave Is Challenging An American Narrative
Omar Ibn Said was 37 years old when he was taken from his West African home and transported to Charleston, South Carolina, as a slave in the 1800s. Now, his one-of-a-kind autobiographical manuscript has been translated from its original...
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New Book ‘Myth America’ Examines Misinformation In U.S. History
In a new book, Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer assemble a team of fellow historians to push back on what they see as the biggest myths and rampant misinformation about major issues facing this country and some of its most defining...
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Lynne Cheney On American Presidents Of 'The Virginia Dynasty'
Four of America’s first five presidents were born and raised within a 60-mile radius in the state of Virginia. Those men -- George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe -- and their sometimes complicated...
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Isolation and stigma sustain HIV in the South: 'It's like we're on a deserted island'
In the rural South, poverty, prejudice and lack of health care are exacerbating the spread of HIV, making it the epicenter of HIV/AIDS in America. William Brangham and Jason Kane, along with Jon Cohen of Science magazine, meet some who...
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Asian Americans Report Rise In Racist Attacks Amid Pandemic
As coronavirus has spread across the U.S., so have reports of violence against people of Asian descent, and the FBI warns a surge in hate crimes could be yet to come. These fears have led to the creation of a website for reporting such...