History

In 'The Humorist,' Soviet comedy is no joke

September 19, 2019

Michael Idov's new film, “The Humorist,” captures the oxymoronic nature of state-sanctioned Soviet comedy and the downfall of the system through the eyes of character, Boris Arkadiev.

Religion

Uptick in church burnings raises alarm in Ethiopia

GlobalPost

September 16, 2019

These incidents of arson and murder come at a time when tensions between the country’s ethnic groups — including Oromo, Amhara and Tigrayan — are already high and causing divisions.

History

Remembering how America experienced 9/11

PRI's The World

September 11, 2019

America is at a turning point in which the events of 9/11 are shifting from memory to history. In his book, "The Only Plane in the Sky," author Garrett Graff compiles a comprehensive oral history timeline of Sept. 11, 2001, told via brief diary-like accounts.

Opponents of FDR's New Deal called it a 'disaster'

Innovation Hub

September 09, 2019

FDR's New Deal transformed America and is credited with helping the US survive the Great Recession. But his political opponents — including incumbent President Herbert Hoover — called it "a disaster."

Facebook wants to create a 'Supreme Court' for content moderation. Will it work?

PRI's The World

September 05, 2019

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Every day, Facebook has to make difficult and consequential decisions about what should stay or go on its platform. Now, it's turning to outsiders for help.

Activists say it’s time to do away with Le Sauvage, a Belgian festival’s traditional blackface character

PRI's The World

August 23, 2019

In Belgium, people have dressed up in blackface at festivals for decades. But in recent years, a push to end the practice is gaining steam.

Ghana’s ‘Year of Return’ is emotional for descendents on both sides of the slave trade

PRI's The World

August 23, 2019

As two groups of people separated generations ago are reunited, they’re also confronting their differences.

Conflict

30 years later, the human chain that 'unshackled' the Baltic nations still matters

PRI's The World

August 22, 2019

The human chain paved the way to Baltic independence, and, on the eve of its 30th anniversary, offers inspiration for Hong Kong protesters.

'Willful amnesia': How Africans forgot — and remembered — their role in the slave trade

PRI's The World

August 20, 2019

Ghana’s “Year of Return” is changing how the history of the slave trade is remembered in Africa.

A professor with Ghanaian roots unearths a slave castle’s history — and her own

PRI's The World

August 19, 2019

Rachel Engmann, a professor at Hampshire College, found her surname in a slave castle in Accra, Ghana, and decided to do some digging.

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