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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Harlem Rhapsody’ is a novel about an affair at the heart of the Harlem Renaissance

A while back, Victoria Christopher Murray set out on a mission to learn about the women of the Harlem Renaissance. But in her research, she mostly found stories about men – until she came across Jessie Redmon Fauset. Fauset, whom Langston Hughes called "the midwife of the Harlem Renaissance," was a writer who eventually became literary editor at The Crisis, the NAACP's magazine. Her life serves as inspiration for Murray's new historical fiction novel Harlem Rhapsody. In today's episode, Murray speaks with NPR's Pien Huang about the historical impact of Fauset's romantic relationship with W.E.B. Du Bois and Murray's decision to include the affair in the book.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Underground Railroad

Before the US Civil War, a group of abolitionists didn’t just sit around passively to wait for the end of slavery to arrive. 


They took matters into their own hands. They set up a clandestine network that operated over multiple states to bring escaped slaves to freedom. 


Their network wasn’t a top-down organization, which centrally organized everything. Rather, it was one of the earliest examples of a decentralized network where the members didn’t even know who else was involved. 


Learn more about the Underground Railroad and how it brought thousands of people to freedom on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Defence Spending, Rare Earths and Trunk Truths

Has the US really sent Ukraine $350 billion for its war effort? Is a $500billion cut of Ukraine?s rare earth minerals a good deal? How will the UK fund the governments ambitions to raise defence spending to 3%? But most important of all - how many muscles are in an elephant?s trunk?

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Pod Save America - The State Of the Union Is … Long

Donald Trump makes history—by delivering the longest Joint Address ever, clocking in at an exhausting 99 minutes of blame, grievance, and sappy stunts. Jon, Lovett, Dan, and Tommy break down all the biggest—and weirdest—moments, from warning of a "disturbance" from the new tariffs, to invading Greenland and cutting off funding for transgender mice (yes, really). Plus, they debate how Rep. Al Green's protest will play, the strengths and weaknesses of Sen. Elissa Slotkin's rebuttal, and what Democrats should do now.

 

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The Indicator from Planet Money - Is the Panama Canal a rip-off?

Who pays to use the Panama Canal and how much? These questions are part of the tensions between the U.S. and Panama after President Trump threatened to take over the canal. We look at the global shipping lane's fee structure in light of the president's claim that the U.S. is getting ripped off.

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