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Special Guest: Kara Walker

Arts, Culture & Media

Kurt Andersen and artist Kara Walker talk about creative darkness — from literal shadows to conceptual creepiness. Artist Kara Walker is best known for cut-out silhouettes based on highly charged images of slavery and its legacy. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Tang […]

Panhandling for Reparations

Arts, Culture & Media
Supporters cheer at a Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore campaign rally in Midland City, Alabama.

Alabama’s deep racial divisions increasingly plague the rest of America

Global Politics
A woman stands in conference area in front of "Guatemala" sign

How one woman went from ‘Why are these Mexicans here?’ to supporting immigrant businesses

Business
Rachel Dolezal poses for a photo in her Spokane, Washington home.

In South Africa, a special resonance to Rachel Dolezal’s tale

Culture
Clyde Foster analyzing data for NASA

How JFK made NASA his secret weapon in the fight for civil rights in America

Justice

NASA’s black engineers, mathematicians and technicians didn’t just help American win the space race, they also played a key role in reshaping the American South.