Tag: NPR
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Go Pack Horse Librarians, Go!
One podcast that survived my recent purge is The Keepers, a series from The Kitchen Sisters and NPR. The series features: “stories of activist archivists, rogue librarians, curators, collectors and historians. Keepers of the culture and the cultures and collections they keep. Guardians of history, large and small, protectors of the free flow of information…
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Raising Kings, pt. 1
Loved the first episode of “Raising Kings”, a three-part series from NPR’s Code Switch podcast on a new boys-only public school in Washington, D.C., filled only with freshmen students of color: All are determined to change the narrative. In Washington, and the rest of the country, that narrative says too many young black men are below-average…
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Colbert and The Constitution
I want to highlight this recent interview the real Stephen Colbert did with NPR’s Fresh Air, because he shows yet again how intelligent, empathetic, and savvy is the man behing the blowhard. You should listen to the entire thing, but one part that stuck out to me was his take on churches who wish to…
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You Can’t Argue With Goodness
Like many people, I enjoy This American Life. I only started listening regularly about a year and a half ago. One episode from April 2011 called “Know When To Fold ‘Em” in particular struck a chord with me, specifically the first act, which you can listen to here (or read the transcript). It’s a short story from…
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Knife To Meet You
True story from NPR: Julio Diaz has a daily routine. Every night, the 31-year-old social worker ends his hour-long subway commute to the Bronx one stop early, just so he can eat at his favorite diner. But one night last month, as Diaz stepped off the No. 6 train and onto a nearly empty platform,…