He explains that although it may be easier to ignore uncomfortable conversations, God calls us to lean in and embrace those who are different than us. RUDALEVIGE: It's pretty vague. Asha Bandela recounts the inspiring story that led Khan-Cullors to become the founder of Black Lives Matter.

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Even better, they can be paused and resumed as we please. Special thanks to the following musicians: Stay connected with everything KUOW by signing up for our free, weekly Best of KUOW newsletter. VELASCO: And, you know, it was one of those things that you kind of see in movies, like, a grainy video of people, you know, in fatigues speaking about the conditions of significant inequality that existed and that something has to change.

A gift to where needed most supports the breadth of MCC’s work – meeting urgent needs and helping to build peace and new opportunities in communities around the world. "We are the land of the free and the home of the brave.". Income inequality got worse, and corruption in the government was rampant. ABDELFATAH: So the framers needed to figure out how to create an executive branch that had enough power to be effective but not so much that it became tyrannical. Throughline, NPR's history podcast, takes a look at Billie Holiday's life and influence. He urges white Christians to examine their institutions when it comes to racial equity and offers concrete practices for churches to seek solidarity with the oppressed. It's going to grow up to be a dictator. White Jesus is much different than the Jesus of the Gospels. Ramtin Arablouei is co-host and co-producer of NPR's podcast Throughline, a show that explores history through creative, immersive storytelling designed to … which won the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi award for investigative reporting.

KING: Ramtin Arablouei, co-host of NPR's history podcast Throughline.

That's when Chavez, who was in the military at the time, organized a group of soldiers to overthrow the president of Venezuela at the time, Carlos Andres Perez. ABDELFATAH: Can you actually - if you have it in front of you - read to us what they landed on, what Article II says and what it means? And eventually, they surrendered.

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He even renamed the country the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. He was also a very public critic of the U.S. NOEL KING, HOST: Venezuela used to be the richest country in South America. He was spindly. ARABLOUEI: Bolivar managed to use that charisma to bring together a massive, diverse army of people from across South America to fight for independence from Spain.

There's domestic disputes at home. ABDELFATAH: Basically, Article II had left a lot of room for interpretation whether intentionally or not, because all the president really needed in order to expand that vaguely defined power was buy-in from Congress. Since the beginning of time, oral tradition has been one of the primary means of passing history from one generation to the next. Four hundred years later, Nikole Hannah-Jones from The New York Times tells this story, including how Black people have been central to building U.S. democracy, music, wealth and more.
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After a dangerous journey on a slave ship to the U.S., she is caught in a cycle of slave work in various U.S. towns. KUOW is the Puget Sound region’s #1 radio station for news.

In a time where schools, churches, universities and businesses claim to value diversity, Austin Channing Brown tells a different story. ABDELFATAH: On the morning of February 4, five military units were dispersed across the country. The seasons follow, in order, the Watergate Scandal, Bill Clinton’s impeachment, the Tupac Shakur versus Notorious B.I.G.

INSKEEP: Our colleagues from Throughline, Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei. award-winning podcasts including "Los Cassettes del Exilio" ( In 1862, Mankato, Minnesota, was the site of the largest mass execution in U.S. history. In that role, she's responsible for all aspects of the podcast's production, including development of episode concepts, interviewing guests, and sound design. Need Help Paying Rent?

Based on a true story, award-winning novelist Lawrence Hill depicts the journey of Aminata, a young girl abducted from her village in Mali. Gimlet Media’s Uncivil is a podcast of unrest. Throughline, a show that explores history through creative, immersive storytelling designed to reintroduce history to new audiences. He's written music for many ARABLOUEI: So we started the story with Nicolas Maduro, the current president of Venezuela's, predecessor Hugo Chavez. He was a boisterous, charismatic president of Venezuela from 1999 to 2013. They're very nervous about the ability of the government to deal with it. In Americanah, the story begins with Ifemelu and Obinze leaving their military occupied home in Nigeria.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of U.S. history: the decades-long migration of Black citizens who fled the South for Northern and Western cities, in search of a better life. NPR hosts Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei cover each episode with an emphasis on untold or overlooked aspects of relevant history. VELASCO: I remember, you know, my mother turning on the television.

Produced by Slate Plus and hosted by Leon Neyfakh and Josh Levin, Slow Burn covers a new political controversy each season. It was broke. Image: instagram.com, @megpiesync @rachel.bregamn @natfisher (modified by author) ... Ramtin Arablouei and Rund Abdelfatah. VELASCO: Which created the expectation that this was not the end, this was the beginning. Follow along as Ifemelu and Obinze find their way back to each other and their homeland in Nigeria.

After the death of Trayvon Martin, three women – Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi and Patrisse Khan-Cullors – decided it was time to do something. Check out The Brown Book Shelf. Malcolm Gladwell revisits the pockets of history that are often overlooked, misinterpreted, or misunderstood. He had no chest to speak of.

RUDALEVIGE: Edmund Randolph, who was the governor of Virginia, you know, he said, this is the fetus of monarchy.

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Growing up in majority-white schools and churches, Brown spent her whole life trying to figure out what it meant to love her Blackness. No Pay" Their mission, to take over key government posts - the defense ministry, the military airport, the military museum, the presidential palace and the national TV station, where they planned to broadcast a video... ALEJANDRO VELASCO: On the part of Chavez and other of the leaders of this movement, calling on the population to rise up. Arablouei got his start at NPR in 2015 with a three-week contract to produce a pilot for The hosts believe that every headline has a past. RAMTIN ARABLOUEI, BYLINE: Thank you for having me. NPR Podcast 'Throughline' Delves Into The Kerner Commission's Findings.