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Friday Nite Videos | March 18, 2022

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Top 10 Nuclear Close Calls. Is This Kid the Future of Blues Guitar? Gamestop: Rise of the Players | Movie. Misguided Protests of Russian Restaurants in NYC. Hunting for Missing Women the Media Ignores.

Friday Nite Videos | March 11, 2022

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Unsolved Mysteries: Why Hasn’t Merrick Garland Indicted Donald Trump? Cakewalk to Baghdad. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Explained in 8 Moments. Life and Death 3,000,000 Years Ago. Wrongful Convictions.

Cakewalk to Baghdad

A big and powerful country invaded a small and weak country, using a trumped-up threat. It didn't end well. 

How Odetta Revolutionized Folk Music

Sasha Frere-Jones The New Yorker
She animated the horror and emotional intensity in American labor songs by projecting them like a European opera singer.

Friday Nite Videos | February 18, 2022

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Jordan Klepper Takes on Canadian Truckers. When the Levee Breaks | Playing for Change. Louisiana Senate Candidate Burns Confederate Flag. How Pandemics End. Attica - Largest Prison Uprising in US History.

When the Levee Breaks feat. John Paul Jones | Playing for Change

“When The Levee Breaks” is an emotionally-charged classic by Led Zeppelin. The song is a rework of the 1929 original release by Kansas Joe Mccoy and Memphis Minnie about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927; the most destructive river flooding in U.S. history.

We Are Long Overdue for a Paul Robeson Revival

Peter Dreier Los Angeles Review of Books
In the 1970s, Robeson’s admirers — boosted by the upsurge of black studies and black cultural projects, the waning of the Cold War — began to rehabilitate his reputation with various tributes, documentary films, books, concerts, exhibits, and a play

Friday Nite Videos | February 4, 2022

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Queen Bee | Taj Mahal, Ben Harper, Rosanne Cash. Love & The Constitution. What It's Like To Be Intersex. The Way to Freedom: Selma and the Making of a Movement. Why This Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Matters.

Queen Bee | Taj Mahal, Ben Harper, Rosanne Cash

Get “rocked to your soul” with the “sweet” sounds of the blues classic, “Queen Bee,” by legendary musician, Taj Mahal. This Song Around The World version 20 musicians from six countries.

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