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Elegies And Effigies: Who Speaks For Appalachia?
It's been called Trump Country, coal country and backcountry. But it's our country.
NAACP Honors Memphis Sanitation Workers Who Went On Strike In 1968
Some 1,300 black men from the Memphis Department of Public Works went on strike 50 years ago to protest poor working conditions. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke about them a day before his assassination.
Altering A Species: Darwin's Shopping List
Few scientific discoveries have caused as much excitement as that of editing our genes; yet we owe some of the most stunning wonders around us to old-fashioned breeding practices, says Jimena Canales.
The Personal Toll Of Civil Rights Activism
The fight for equality has always been hard work.
From Madison Park To Washington, D.C. With Eric Motley (Rebroadcast)
Raised by adoptive grandparents, Motley found his way to the Oval Office as a special assistant to President George W. Bush. Now, he's telling a story about what a good community can do, even when things are bad.
Meet The Fearless Cook Who Secretly Fed — And Funded — The Civil Rights Movement
Georgia Gilmore organized black women to cook without raising the suspicions of their white employers, and poured the proceeds into an alternative transportation system for Montgomery bus boycotters.
President Trump's Idea Of Good And Bad Immigrant Countries Has A Historical Precedent
In part, Trump's recent vulgar slur appeared to be favoring the revival of a discriminatory immigration policy abolished by the U.S. Congress more than 50 years ago.
A History Of When The U.S. Chose Immigrants By Their Country Of Origin
President Trump's suggestion that some countries produce more desirable immigrants than others echoes thinking popular nearly 100 years ago, when visas were allocated on the basis of national origin.
Russia's Underground Art Finds A Home In The U.S.
For 50 years, an American economics professor collected dissident art from the Soviet Union. The abstract art pieces, considered nonconformist by the Soviets, have been donated to Rutgers University.