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Alabama Shakes has a unique soulful rock sound. This is from their new (second) album, Sound & Color, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200.

Meet Dr. Wanda Evans-Brewer. She has been teaching for 20 years and has a PhD in Education. She is also living in poverty.

Shooting almost entirely within a cab circling the streets of Tehran, the great director Jafar Panahi (Offside, This Is Not a Film) offers a multilayered mosaic of life in today's Iran.

Bernie Sanders explains in a few sentences why we need to make public college tuition free. His campaign is helping to spark the student movement for free tuition and other left causes.

'Trumbo' covers the span of time leading up to anti-communist hysteria in 1947, right after WWII when our ally, the Soviet Union suddenly became our enemy. Those who had written screenplays praising the USSR or supported union workers against the studio bosses were now suspect, and any of their friends and associates were considered enemies of the State.

Playing for Change video of Bob Marley's classic of hope and forgiveness, featuring Mermans Kenkosenki, Roberto Luti, as well as family members from Cuba and Jamaica including Stephen Marley.

When Bernie Sanders speaks, Republicans hear it a little differently. 

India’s Daughter is the powerful story of the brutal gang rape on a Delhi bus of a 23 year old medical student. Udwin got exclusive, first time on camera interviews with the rapists and defense attorney, none of whom express remorse. Read a review. Now in theaters.

Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK, discusses her personal journey; how corporate and militarist forces keep the U.S. in a state of perpetual war; and how social movements can develop a genuine alternative.