Start the Week - Freedom: From Kierkegaard to Black Lives Matter
'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced', wrote the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. His new biographer, Clare Carlisle, explores the life experiences that moulded Kierkegaard's ideas as he struggled to understand how to be a human being in this world. She tells Amol Rajan that Kierkegaard was very much a philosopher of the heart.
DeRay Mckesson’s reality became one of struggle and action after he quit his job as a school teacher and became a key figure in the Black Lives Matter movement in the US. He spent 400 days on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, often walking day and night after a new law was introduced making it illegal to stand still. In his memoir, On the Other Side of Freedom, he explores the intellectual and political framework of the liberation movement that has dominated American life in the 21st century.
The award-winning poet and playwright Inua Ellams’s latest work also explores freedom and power, but in a world where fate and vengeful gods hold sway. His epic poem The Half-God of Rainfall begins with a game of basketball in Nigeria with the Yoruba gods looking on, and ends with a demonstration of female revenge – both human and mythological.
While Kierkegaard was focused on the subjective experience of being a human, and how we create ourselves through our action, the writer Elizabeth Day is interested in what happens when those actions go awry. ‘How To Fail’ is a painfully honest exploration of things going wrong, and what we can learn from our mistakes.
Producer: Katy Hickman
What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Inside the Crisis at the NRA
The NRA is in a financial mess of its own doing. A number of executives, vendors, and contractors have used their positions to enrich themselves, extracting hundreds of millions of dollars from the organization in the process. How did secrecy, poor judgement, and sweetheart deals toss the NRA into an existential crisis?
Guest: Mike Spies, reporter at The Trace.
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The NewsWorthy - Synagogue Shooting, Boeing’s Big Day & Record-Breaking Box Office – Monday, April 29th, 2019
The news to know for Monday, April 29th, 2019!
Today, we're talking about another place of worship that was attacked, an unexpected tragedy in Seattle and a big day for Boeing.
Plus: Airbnb's new plans, and did Avengers: Endgame hit the projected $1 billion at the box office?
Those stories and many more in less than 10 minutes!
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
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Synagogue Shooting: NBC News, The Washington Post, CNN, Reuters
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Crane Collapse: The Seattle Times, NBC News
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Avengers: Endgame: Variety, THR, BuzzFeed News, CNBC
NFL Draft: USA Today, CBS Sports
Virginia Basketball: ABC News, FOX News, Washington Post
Indiegogo Ban: TechCrunch, Engadget
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Curious City - How My Grandparents Helped Shape Chicago’s Blues Industry
Like millions of black Southerners during the Great Migration, they sought greater freedom and opportunity. They found it in the blues.
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