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Books

Leah Penniman made it her goal to start a farm for her neighbors, and to provide fresh food to refugees, immigrants and people affected by mass incarceration. (Jamel Mosely/NPR)
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Community

‘Farming while black’: A guide to finding power and dignity through food

Penniman and her staff at Soul Fire Farm train black and Latinx farmers in growing techniques and management practices from the African diaspora.

7 years ago

Arts & Entertainment

Princeton’s comic book exhibit spotlights superheroes of civil rights movement

From Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King Jr. to U.S. Rep. John Lewis, comics illustrate the fight for equality.

7 years ago

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Carla Hall has a new book that explores her heritage and attempts to bring soul food to a wider audience. She embarked on a long journey through the South to investigate and get inspiration, and the story is a deep look into her philosophy. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
NPR
Lifestyle

In soul food cookbook, chef Carla Hall celebrates black culinary heritage

Carla Hall grew up eating soul food since before she could speak.

7 years ago

Wizards for a day (from left) Charlene Delos Santos, Harley Birkmire, and Joe Birkmire, show off their attire on Germantown Avenue at the Chestnut Hill Witches and Wizards Festival. (Jonathan Wilson for WHYY)
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Arts & Entertainment

Harry who? Chestnut Hill Witches and Wizards fest carries on without its famous namesake

Chestnut Hill's popular fall festival celebrating the world of Harry Potter lost its name, but not its following.

7 years ago

Walt Maguire adjusts his glasses in his bathroom mirror on October 20, 2017. Maguire, 60, played the part of Dumbledore at Chestnut Hill’s Harry Potter Festival for six years. Now, he is co-hosting the Witches and Wizards festival costume contest. (Rachel Wisniewski for WHYY)
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Arts & Entertainment

A wizard who must not be named reflects on his years as Hogwarts headmaster

For Walt Maguire, dressing as the festival’s Dumbledore was a serious endeavor — one that required him to begin his preparation at 5 a.m.

7 years ago

Arts & Entertainment

Now read this: ‘Sing, Unburied, Sing’

The Free Library of Philadelphia has selected Jesmyn Ward's "Sing, Unburied, Sing" for next year's One Book, One Philadelphia reading program.

7 years ago

Radio Times

Casey Gerald’s “There Will Be No Miracles”

Guest: Casey Gerald ...

Air Date: October 8, 2018 10:00 am

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The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre. (Cameron Pollack/NPR)
NPR
Education

How the Myers-Briggs personality test began in a mother’s living room lab

Briggs was just 14 years old when she went to college, and ended up graduating first in her class.

7 years ago

(Photo credit, Bridgitte Lacombe)
Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

Gary Shteyngart and lessons from the recession

Guests: Gary Shteyngart, ...

Air Date: September 17, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 48:56
Jose Antonio Vargas, pictured at a rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2016, has written a memoir of his life as an undocumented immigrant in Dear America. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

‘Dear America,’ writes a Pulitzer-winning journalist — and undocumented immigrant

7 years ago

Benjamin Rush, the medical doctor and Founding Father, took after the Renaissance-man civic participation of his mentor, Benjamin Franklin. (Charles Willson Peale/Courtesy of Crown)
NPR
Community

‘Rush’: The other Founding Father from Philadelphia named Benjamin

Benjamin Rush was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was also a bold abolitionist, an advocate for public education and a prolific writer.

7 years ago

Philadelphia Eagles head coach Doug Pederson has written a book about his philosophy of life and football. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

New book reveals Philadelphia Eagles coach’s personal playbook

Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn talks with Philadelphia Eagles head coach Doug Pederson.

7 years ago

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Humpback whales feed at the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary near Provincetown, Mass., on July 9, 2014. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
NPR
Science
Fresh Air

Scientists are ‘Spying On Whales’ to learn how they eat, talk and … walked?

"We live in the golden age of whale science."

7 years ago

WHYY reporter Annette John-Hall interviews Deborah Plant, editor of
Community

‘Barracoon’ spurs a long-overdue conversation about last known slave-ship survivor

"Barracoon: The Story of the Last 'Black Cargo,'" one of the only surviving first-person accounts of the transatlantic slave trade, was published in May.

7 years ago

Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

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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