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'An Abbreviated Life' Memoir Captures Lasting Impact Of Childhood Emotional Abuse

8:06am June 19, 2016

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks to Ariel Leve about her new memoir, An Abbreviated Life. It tells the story of her growing up in a difficult dysfunctional family.

NPR producer Lucy Perkins and mother Lynne Rae Perkins.

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Why My Mom Left Me Out Of Her Book

7:59am June 19, 2016

Frank and Lucky Get Schooled author Lynne Rae Perkins wrote a book about her son Frank and their dog Lucky. But she left one important person out — her daughter Lucy.

The front page of the 1965 Selma Times-Journal, which showed Bernard Kleina — then Father Kleina — being arrested.

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When King Came To Chicago: See The Rare Images Of His Campaign — In Color

5:04pm June 18, 2016

by NPR Staff

Fifty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. went north, leading the Chicago Freedom Movement. Bernard Kleina and his camera were there, too — and the former priest walks NPR through his color photos.

In Central Intelligence, Hart plays Calvin Joyner, an unhappy accountant who finds himself drawn into a web of international espionage.

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Actor Kevin Hart On Comedy, 'Central Intelligence' And Lessons From His Mom

5:04pm June 18, 2016

by NPR Staff

Hart has drawn enormous crowds to his stand-up shows and comedy films. The actor/comic says he owes a lot to his mom. "She never let me start something without finishing it."

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Compassion Drove Dad To The Salad Bar — That, And Fear Of Alien Abduction

2:33pm June 18, 2016

by Anelise Chen

Her grandparents were vegetarian out of fear of eating reincarnated ancestors. Her father, out of compassion for animals and X-Files-inspired thinking. But it wasn't so great for family unity.

Dickinson vividly described flowers and plants in her poetry. Click here to read her poem, "It will be Summer — eventually."

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Never Mind The White Dress, Turns Out Emily Dickinson Had A Green Thumb

12:05pm June 18, 2016

by Karen Brown

Archaeologists are working to unearth the poet's original gardens and bring the homestead back to its natural state. The hope is to revive the plants and flowers she vividly described in her poetry.

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Not My Job: Three Questions For Actor Terry O'Quinn About Hair

11:52am June 18, 2016

Since O'Quinn doesn't have much going on in the hair department himself, we've decided to ask him three questions about Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical.

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Man (Dreaming), by June Leaf, 1972. Acrylic, and brush and ink on paper, 24 3/4 × 39 3/4 in. Collection of the artist.

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Artist June Leaf, Still Moving Fast At 86

8:21am June 18, 2016

by Karen Michel

June Leaf sculpts, paints and draws and she's been doing it for most of her 86 years. Now she's got a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.

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Annie Proulx's 'Barkskins' Is Lovely, Dark, and Deep

7:00am June 18, 2016

by Annalisa Quinn

Annie Proulx's epic new novel is a multigenerational, multi-century epic about the fall of forests before human depredation — just don't think about how many trees went into its 700-plus pages.

Family sitting around table eating dinner, a woman's arms in the foreground.

Adopted From Abroad? Tell Us Your Food Stories

5:34pm June 17, 2016

by Maria Godoy

For many of us, food can serve as a way to explore our heritage. But what happens when you grow up in a family with a different ethnic, racial or cultural background than your own? Share your story.