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Zora Neale Hurston’s “Barracoon”

Guests: Deborah Plant, Autumn Womack, Johnnie Hobbes Jr. Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo ...

Air Date: July 31, 2018 10:00 am

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At the Carnival de Resistance at Arch Street United Methodist Church, participants take on environmental and social justice issues from a Christian perspective. (Carnival De Resistance, Tim Nafziger via Flickr/)
Religion

‘Faith, art, activism’ combine at Philly church in a carnival atmosphere

The traveling carnival visits towns across the country to propel social change through theater, storytelling, songs, and games.

8 years ago

The language of Jos Charles' “feeld” is like an artifact from a different time, a kind of “lost Middle English” concieved to describe the trans experience in new ways. Photo by Getty Images
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To describe the trans experience, this poet created a new dialect

Part science fiction, part medieval reinterpretation, “feeld” by trans poet Jos Charles can feel like a puzzle, making readers work for its meaning.

8 years ago

Artist Nancy Josephson, in her Wilmington Delaware studio. (Brian Drouin/WHYY)
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Delaware
Visual Arts

Sequins, beads, humor and Voodoo flags: The art of Nancy Josephson

A self-taught artist, Nancy Josephson mixes ‘blingy stuff’ together with taxidermy and busts of people to make art that will ‘surprise and delight.’

8 years ago

Emiley Kiser (left) and Susan Riley Stevens in the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival production of
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At the Pa. Shakespeare Festival, ‘All’s Well’ ends that way

The festival produces the play the way Shakespeare would have, from what we know today.

8 years ago

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Lisa Marie Patzer's immersive installation at the Crane Arts Building,
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Philly art exhibit examines what to expect when you’re expecting privacy

A digital artist turns Philadelphia's Icebox gallery into an immersive interpretation of 4th Amendment privacy laws.

8 years ago

Listen 2:57
A historical marker on 33rd Street identifies the home of jazz great John Coltrane, but the house itself stands vacant and neglected.
Speak Easy
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Philadelphia

A jazz legend’s Philadelphia home fading away

John Coltrane's vacant house on North 33rd Street is deteriorating but still bears marks of the composer's achievement.

8 years ago

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Delaware museum looks back at racism, tumult of ’68 — and shadows still stretching over Wilmington

For the fifty-year anniversary of the Wilmington military occupation, the Delaware Art Museum examines how the past reaches its tendrils into the present.

8 years ago

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Locals gather in in the Copeland Sculpture Garden at the Delaware Art Museum for some morning yoga. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
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Bob Marley, Harry Potter, and the nation’s largest urban health festival: Your plans 7/26 – 8/1

This week, consider a day trip to Wilmington for one of the eclectic events happening there.

8 years ago

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Happy Birthday, Harry Potter

If you didn't book your tickets to Hogwarts in time, celebrate the birth of the Boy Who Lived at one of these local events.

8 years ago

(Chris Gibbons/for WHYY)
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The green radio

Songs from a half century ago still resound with meaning for a troubled time

8 years ago

Jess Conda, as Feste, fronts the band Midsummer Madness in a glam rock version of
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Philadelphia

The Bard goes glam in Clark Park’s ‘Twelfth Night’

Shakespeare in Philadelphia's Clark Park backs up "Twelfth Night" with a glam-rock band of kids from the neighborhood.

8 years ago

 A crowd watches the performance by Steve Aoki on day one of the Budweiser Made in America Festival in Philadelphia. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
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Philadelphia

Philly mayor, Jay-Z’s Roc Nation agree to keep Made in America on the Parkway

Made in America will stay on the Ben Franklin Parkway.

8 years ago

The Philadelphia Women’s Slavic Ensemble performs at Bertram’s Gardens Sunday. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Philadelphia

Slavic singers bring the music, traditions, food of the Balkans to Bartram’s Garden

The Philadelphia Women’s Slavic Ensemble opened the second annual Balkan at Bartram’s Garden event Sunday evening.

8 years ago

Big Scott, organizer of the All White Affair at Adventure Aquarium in Camden, NJ is pictured with WBAS Radio personality Patty Jackson. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
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‘The best of all parties’: The irresistible lure of the white party

Add a little glamour to your everyday by attending one of these soirees in your finest all-white attire.

8 years ago

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