Coal
Poet Lore
Coal may be a dying industry but, as St. Louis poet Kerry James Evans shows, the living miners go on working for less and less.
Friday Nite Videos | April 6, 2018
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Why Eating Healthy Is So Expensive. Weak Black Women | Robin Thede. Hip Hop or Shakespeare? Documentary | RGB. Tom Lehrer's 'The Elements' Animated.
Why Eating Healthy Is So Expensive
Produce helps your health and hurts your wallet, but that is as much a result of policy as of nature
Weak Black Women | Robin Thede
Robin turns the "Strong Black Woman" stereotype on its head with the world premiere of her music video "Weak Black Women."
Hip Hop or Shakespeare?
Akala demonstrates and explores the connections between Shakespeare and Hip-Hop, and the wider cultural debate around language and it's power.
Documentary | RGB
An intimate portrait of an unlikely rock star: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. With unprecedented access, the filmmakers explore how her early legal battles changed the world for women. Opens May 4.
Tom Lehrer's 'The Elements' Animated
Tom Lehrer, who has written a body of songs with a unique mix of science, social and political satire (check out, for example, We'll All Go Together When We Go), is 90 this month. This one is just for fun. Happy birthday, Tom.
A Standing Rock on the Border?
The Progressive
The Tohono O’odham tribe has repeatedly cited a border wall’s potential impact upon sacred sites, burial grounds, and the natural environment. A wall would split the tribal homeland down the middle and isolate thousands of members south of the border.
What’s the Matter With Oklahoma?
The American Prospect
Oklahoma was once a center of left-populism. Could it be that again?
“Sorry, Sir, I Can't Shoot”
Gush Shalom
The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem urges soldiers to refuse to shoot protestors in Gaza
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