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Arturo Sandoval: Free To Blow His Trumpet The Way He Wants

A former president, a media mogul and a Cuban jazz trumpeter are among the 16 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Wednesday. That Cuban jazz trumpeter, Arturo Sandoval, happened to be...

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Why Chaucer Said 'Ax' Instead Of 'Ask,' And Why Some Still Do

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For These Inner-City Dads, Fatherhood Comes With Homework

About two dozen dads — all African-Americans, ranging in age from their early 20s to late 40s — are standing in a circle participating in a call-and-response exercise:Call: You done broke them chains....

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A View On The World Cup, Seen From An LA Bar On A Midweek Morning

Fans of the U.S. soccer team gathered across the country to watch Thursday's World Cup match against Germany. More than a thousand people watched the game at Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C., and many...

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'Do The Right Thing' Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary

Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing was hotly anticipated when it was released 25 years ago.The film about racial tension reaches a boiling point on a scorching summer day in Brooklyn.All the action takes...

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How To Be A 21st Century 'Gentleman'

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Black Students Gather At Harvard To Watch 'Dear White People'

Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A new film out this Friday takes on an edgy topic right from the title. It's called "Dear White People." It's...

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Watching 'Dear White People' At Harvard

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Millennials Have Inherited The Black Marriage Gap

Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: We've been exploring All Things Millennial in our series "New Boom." Today marriage trends - less than 50...

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'Ferguson Forward': Churchgoers Seek A New Normal

I reunited with the Rev. Daryl Meese at his place of worship, a no-frills brick Methodist Church in Ferguson, Mo., on this stormy Sunday morning.We first met at a coffee shop last August. I was looking...

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Ferguson Protesters Anxiously Await Grand Jury Decision

Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: And now let's bring in NPR's Shereen Meraji. She's outside the police station in Ferguson where protesters have...

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At Vandalized Ferguson Businesses, Anger And Tears

Residents and business owners in Ferguson, Mo., awoke Tuesday morning to assess the damage done to their neighborhoods.

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How Ferguson Residents Are Giving Thanks This Holiday Season

The kickoff to the holiday season in St. Louis has been overshadowed by unrest following the grand jury's decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson. And for some residents of Ferguson, the...

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Iranian-American Filmmaker Breaks Out Of Boxes, Into The Box Office

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Steven Yeun's 'Glenn': Slaying Zombies And Getting The Girl

AMC's The Walking Dead holds the record for the most-watched cable television drama. If you've never seen it, it's about the zombie apocalypse and follows a group survivors trying to stay alive in...

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'The Black Summit' Draws African-American Skiers And Boarders To Aspen

We've all heard the old adage that every snowflake is different, but they do have one thing in common: They're all white. That's also the image that many have of the people taking part in winter...

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Why Many Smart, Low-Income Students Don't Apply To Elite Schools

Right now, high school seniors across the country are trying hard not to think about what is — or isn't — coming in the mail.They're anxiously awaiting acceptance letters (or the opposite) from their...

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Questioning The Black Male Experience In America

How would you like to be remembered, in a word or two? That question was posed by a black man and answered by other black men in a multimedia art project called "Question Bridge: Black Males."Some of...

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How One West Baltimore Principal Helps Her Students Make Sense Of It All

Editor's note: Code Switch reporter Shereen Marisol Meraji spent Wednesday with a West Baltimore principal charged with a huge task: helping her middle and high school students, who are overwhelmingly...

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A Rust Belt Story Retold, Through Portraits Of The Women Who Lived It

Just outside Pittsburgh is the tiny borough of Braddock, Pa., best known as the birthplace of Andrew Carnegie's first steel mill. Today, it's something of a poster child for rust belt revitalization, a...

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