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When law & order is the headline, what does it mean for us? Holding Court with Eboni K. Williams cross-examines news-making cases and famous faces to peer into the court of law. Each week attorney Eboni K. Williams and cultural observer Dustin Ross break down what’s on the docket in American justice and what’s not, with savvy legal analysis and commonsense commentary to provide teachable moments for us all to navigate a rigged system. Discussions in this podcast are for general information a ...
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Sculpt and train your mind to become the best version of yourself with daily affirmations. No one can motivate you better than YOU. Whether you're on a fitness, better health, or enlightened self-love journey, training your mind to overcome obstacles will be your greatest weapon. Learn from my life lessons or repeat my daily affirmations; either way, I'm here to MOTIVATE YOU TO YOUR BEST SELF! If you like this podcast, please rate and review it Visit my website www.thefittteam.com Support th ...
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Eboni is an Introverted personality type with extroverted tendencies, failing upward (& sometimes downward) as it relates to life, love, and the pursuit of happiness. Join me and all my ISTJ shenanigans from week to week for a little bit of insight on some of my adventures on the Extroverted Introvert Podcast.
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Dinner With The Avery's

Dinner With The Avery's

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Having relationship problems and need advice? Looking for a podcast that is funny, entertaining and authentic! Then look no further, we present to you Dinner With The Avery's! Meet the Avery's, Dj Holiday and Ebony Avery! Dj Holiday is a well known radio personality in Atlanta. With the world known drop 'Holiday Season', Dj Holiday has helped start the careers of artist, including Gucci Mane, French Montana and Nicki Minaj. Ebony Avery is also a well-known veteran in the entertainment indust ...
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I am going to talk to you about the random things that come to my mind and hopefully I can inspire you to think bigger and better and see different points of view in today’s world
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There are so many topics that are taboo in the Christian community. We are here to address them all. Our hope is that through our transparency we can create a space for freedom of strongholds. Oh yeah and we tend to crack jokes a lot.
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The Ebony Mashup

The Ebony Mashup

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The Ebony Mashup will redefine representations of Black Love, Culture, Family and Community. It is an eclectic fusion of casual and thought provoking conversations, designed to spread love, educate, empower, uplift, unite and maybe even make you laugh!
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FML Talk

Gabrielle Stone

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If you’ve been royally f%cked over in life, this is the place for you. Host Gabrielle Stone had the rug ripped out from underneath her not once, but twice, by the paws of shitty men. But instead of landing flat on her ass, she built a career out of it. Penning her best-selling tell-all, Eat, Pray, #FML was not enough; the fans demanded more tea, and thus, this very podcast was born. FML Talk has since become a safe place for you to commiserate, heal, have a (self-love) cocktail, and laugh yo ...
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Welcome to The Garden. What’s “The Garden”? I’m glad you asked! It’s a podcast created to empower people and provide different strategies on how to grow and work towards becoming your best self. Ebony Love talks about various topics in life, with an emphasis on God, purpose, self love, and relationships! Tap in and grow! Transparency. Vulnerability. Growth.
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A Decolonized Podcast for lovers on the margins, join your resident sexuality educator Ericka Hart and Deep East Oakland's very own Ebony Donnley, as we game give, dismantle white supremacy and kiki in the cosmos somewhere between radical hood epistemological black queer love ethics, pop culture, house plants and a sea of books. Light an incense to this. #nigchampa #hrhw #theblackpoweredpodcast To monetarily support Hoodrat to Headwrap Venmo @Ericka-Hart or PayPal: ericka@ihartericka.com
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These are real life stories from real domestic violence survivors. Please be advised that some of the content may be graphic to users. All survivors have agreed to being recorded and will remain anonymous. Let’s help end domestic violence, love isn’t suppose to hurt.
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"All Drama", the Ebony Road Players Podcast is a collections of conversations about Art, Education and Social Justice through the lens of theatre, specifically through our lens as a Nonprofit, Black Community Theatre. Hosted by Edye Evans Hyde, new episodes are uploaded every Friday with guests ranging from Ebony Road Players employees and board members to artists and community members. Listen to stories about how theatre arts and Ebony Road Players are making real change in the community.
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These episodes are for listeners who are compassionate and inspired by my journey. My podcast is not your typical chat session but more about my life experience with breast cancer and the struggles I am facing to Survive. I love you for take this journey with me and please follow me on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/datenightwithcancer/
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Wonder Stars of the Universe

Eboni Jalea Dion Freeman

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To understand who you are today, it’s good to look back at who you've been. Join your host Eboni (published author, private consultant, and x-Googler) in talking to a national selection of Wonder Star artist up-and-comers, homemakers, and business owners. Listen to the stories of how they designed new versions of themselves and reinvented their present to take control of their future. Every 2nd and 4th Thursday, come get inspired to find who you could be. To learn more about Wonder Stars of ...
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Love Hard podcast

Antonio ,Sheena Hardnett

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This Podcast is about our love, our life and what we are thinking. We just wanted to shared our love language with someone else, and what a great way to do so with a podcast. This is how we share our love for each other to all of you. Sit back and enjoy all our laughs, love, uncomfortable moments and how we stayed together 17 years and counting as a young black couple that you really don't see anymore in today's life.
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The Operating Room Podcast

Ebony “The Doctor”

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Welcome to The Operating Room. I am "The Doctor". I am an intercourse enthusiast. I desire to help people discover fun and new ways to spice up their love life, not only through sex but better communication overall. I'll dissect all your questions on taboo topics in the areas of sex, love and relationships. A.M.A (Ask Me Anything) Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theoperatingroom/support
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Kush & Korinthians

KushandKorinthians

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Opinions are like asses, everyone has one. Some people show their ass all the time, queue in ME!!! Ebony Chante here and I’m comfortable being the person that pulls up the rug to display the shit people tried to sweep under it. So clutch those pearls and pull down your skirt at this tea party 😉
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Love and War Radio is a raw relationship talk show from a male and two females perspective. Hosted by radio veterans, Ebony and D'Lyte and music/film producer, Mista E, this show engages the audience with interesting relationship topic discussions that are open, honest and delivered with an entertaining twist. From cheating to dating to celebrity pop culture relationship drama, nothing is off limits with Love & War Radio. Catch the show live on IG on Thursday nights 8p PT & 10p CT also by fo ...
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Welcome to Cheater Stories: Read By Ebony White! Where I read some of the most horrifying, sickening, scandalous, respulsive, traumatizing, true-real-life-short-stories of betrayal, infidelity and adultery. If you enjoyed watching Jenny Jones, Ricky Lake, Jerry Springer, Maury Povich then you'll love my Podcast! This Podcast is taken directly from the YouTube Channel called Cheater Stories. I am always open to suggestions for new stories and submissions from you! To have your story featured ...
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The Ebony Empress Shows has been voted Business Online Talk Show of the year 2014 by the EBR Awards. Ebony Empress is the host and she is based in London. Ebony has a passion to help her listeners find the love they want and deserve. She has her own unique style of hosting and once bitten you will forever be smitten by her charm and humour. These are a variety of shows that are all about Life, Love, Dating, Self Development and Self Growth. Relationships are affected by the way we think and ...
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E~Mak Speaks

Ebony Makeda

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Life From The Perspective of E~Mak. From life as singer/songwriter/recording artist to the depths of humanity. Join E~Mak For Laughs, Love, and Entertainment. Brought to You On Behalf Of Jade Phoenix Entertainment. How else is a lady supposed to make it from nothing to something out here?? I've Got Delusions Of Grandeur & They Be Hating In These Come Up Streets. I'm Just Saying... Somebody's Got A One Million Dollar Donation With My Name On It! A few tears may be included with purchase. E~Ma ...
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Ebony & Julia discuss pop culture, race, gender, international topics and their obsession with early retirement. Join them on a journey of self discovery, the struggle to balance life; but most of all, their ability to take time out to laugh...Tune in to "Is the Mic On?"
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Simplicity HealthStyle

Coach Ebonie, Fit Mom Diva of Simplicity Healthstyle

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I’m Coach Ebonie, a.k.a Fit Mom Diva, an international holistic healthy lifestyle coach. Thank you so much for joining me on my healthy lifestyle podcast. I am honored to share women’s experiences and influence busy career women all around the world. My passion and mission is to help millions of modern career women get haute, fit and kick stress to create a body and lifestyle they love! Please be sure to subscribe NOW so that you're one of the first to hear about my and other ladies' secrets ...
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Explore living abroad from the perspective of Black expats with years of experience living abroad. We're committed to helping Black travelers & expats connect, live, work, retire, start businesses, and thrive abroad. CONNECT WITH EBONY EXPATS Website: https://www.ebonyexpats.com/ Facebook: facebook.com/ebonyexpats Instagram: instagram.com/ebonyexpats LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/ebonyexpats UPCOMING THAILAND TRIP ✨ November 9 - 17, 2024 ✨ Explore Thailand with community! 9 days of culture, ...
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Interpersonal communication podcast created to help answer some questions about why people have "Daddy Issues". What's your personal definition of fatherhood. What does it mean to be a daddy/father? How did it influence your own child rearing? What impact did Daddy's presence or absence have on your relationship, love life, communication, career, your own parenting practices, ect? This open forum discussion gives guests an opportunity to dive into some conversational topics some of us only h ...
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Get your homegirl hype in this safe space for the everyday Beauty! Whether you feel alone or just need a dose of affirmative "pick me up" Faithfully Affirmed Podcast has you covered!! Once a month we take time to address the phases of healing with other Beauties like you and I.
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I'm Ebony and I'm a girl mama of two beautiful souls. I'm learning how navigate trauma healing while building the life I never dreamed was possible. I'm a survivor of childhood abuse and for the longest time, I believed that if anyone knew my story, I wouldn't be worthy of love. Many years later and now I know that it far from the truth. On the Thrive Like a Mother podcast, I'll share the resources and tools I've used to gain a healthier mindset while healing from my trauma. Here we're about ...
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Around The Way Curls

Antoinette Lee & Shanti Mayers

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Rooted in friendship, humor, and self-actualization, Shanti and Antoinette are a differing, but dynamic duo who explore both the profound and the profane because #DualityIsAThing.
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Founded in 1941 and headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., United Soccer Coaches is the trusted and unifying voice, advocate and partner for coaches at all levels of the game. The largest community for soccer coaches in the world, we unite coaches of all levels around the love of the game and we elevate the game through advocacy, education and service. To learn more visit UnitedSoccerCoaches.org.
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Let’s be honest, therapy is expensive, lacks diversity and not always easy to access. But thankfully, this isn’t therapy. Hosted by Dr. Nic Hardy, Psychotherapist in Houston, Texas - Untherapeutic explores common relationship problems seen behind closed doors in counseling. The topics explored on this podcast are centered around unaddressed issues in relationships. A healthy blend of professional and personal perspective, Untherapeutic tackles common relationship challenges that are overshad ...
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The Thirty Girl advocates for the empowerment of Women, promoting financial literacy, entrepreneurship and leadership. Discussing ALL Topics on: • Credit / Finances • Life •Love / Relationships •Being A Woman •Career & Business
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His Fault Her Problem

Detroit is Different After Dark

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Brought to you by Detroit is Different, His Fault Her Problem Podcast is about love, lovers. The show features two black women who seek to uncover the issues that lead to the steadily declining rate of marriage in the African American community and find resolve. In each episode, co-hosts Chari Reeves and Eboni Rousell engage in thought-provoking and insightful conversation with guests. Diving into issues related to the social and cultural dynamics of dating and relationships; the dialogue is ...
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Here to talk about taboo topics surrounding motherhood and the gaps in perinatal healthcare and reproductive health. Join your host Amber-lee from @thepowerofbirth (and editor Rigel from @b.d.esigns) as she engages in candid conversations with experts in health, science, fitness, maternity, sociology, and psychology and people with lived experiences. Together with our guests, we raise awareness, challenge biases and expose gaps in women’s health. We believe that by sharing your stories and i ...
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Pardon the Mess with Courtney DeFeo

Courtney DeFeo and Christian Parenting

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As parents, we know raising kids is the opposite of neat and tidy. Each day brings wins, losses and valuable lessons. Pardon the Mess is a place where we discuss parenting and faith in a biblical, approachable and relatable way. We may cry and laugh while we learn and grow together in our beautiful mess. Pardon the Mess is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. To find practical and spiritual advice to help you grow into the parent you want to be visit www.ChristianParenting.org
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The 30Somethings Podcast

The 30Somethings Podcast

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Join us, as well leave it all on the table and talk real about sex, love, politics and more from a 30 Something’s perspective. There’s no holding back at this table. Welcome to the 30Somethings Podcast, and welcome to the conversation.
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The Poetry Gods are here to show you how to not be wack in 2016 & beyond. Interviews and stories about the people behind the poems. You don't have to love poetry to love the show. Hosted by Aziza Barnes, Jon Sands, and José Olivarez. Artwork by Jess X. Chen. If you dig the show, share the link.
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Two B's Pod

Two B's Pod

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We're just two B's talking about life, love, surviving, and thriving through the everyday trials of adulting from a survivor's lens. Though we're considered the OG (older) millennials we just feel like a couple of old B's. We definitely don't have it all figured out but we're doing it anyway!
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1. Jahnya - Wait 2. Aáyanna - Wont Cry 3. Essosa - Waste My Time 4. Zenesoul - Pain, no Percocet 5. Drake -I m The Problem 6. Aliah Sheffield - Boo The Fool 7. Buddy Vonn - Love & BS 8. Grace Weber - Lonely 9. T - Royal - Touch Me 10. Jastin Martin - Why Not 11. Ebony Riley - Save Me 12. kiana ledé - Same Type 13. Keitian - Bullshit 14. Maeta - S (EX) 15. Chenayder - Save U 16. Layton Greene - Spin Again 17. Kiana Ledé - If You Hate Me 18. Ash B - Grown 19. Aqyila - Addicted 20. Ann Marie - ...
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Passing, Posing, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan's East Asian Empire (U Hawaii Press, 2023) interrogates the intersections between cultural production, identity, and persuasive messaging that idealized inclusion and unity across Japan’s East Asian empire (1895–1945). Japanese propagandists drew on a pan-Asian rhetoric that …
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In the second half of the twentieth century, Reiki went from an obscure therapy practiced by a few thousand Japanese and Japanese Americans to a global phenomenon. By the early twenty-first century, people in nearly every corner of the world have undergone the initiations that authorize them to channel a cosmic energy—known as Reiki—to heal body, m…
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From the inception of cinema to today’s franchise era, remaking has always been a motor of ongoing film production. Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture (U California Press, 2024) challenges the categorical dismissal in film criticism of remakes, sequels, and franchises by probing what these forma…
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During Hawai‘i’s territorial period (1900–1959), Native Hawaiians resisted assimilation by refusing to replace Native culture, identity, and history with those of the United States. By actively participating in U.S. public schools, Hawaiians resisted the suppression of their language and culture, subjection to a foreign curriculum, and denial of th…
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Fella Benabed's book Applied Global Health Humanities: Readings in the Global Anglophone Novel (de Gruyter, 2024) highlights the importance of global Anglophone literature in global health humanities, shaping perceptions of health issues in the Global South and among minorities in the Global North. Using twelve novels, it explores the historical, p…
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For twentieth-century Jewish immigrants and their children attempting to gain full access to American society, performative masculinity was a tool of acculturation. However, as scholar Miriam Eve Mora demonstrates, this performance is consistently challenged by American mainstream society that holds Jewish men outside of the American ideal of mascu…
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1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left (Akashic Books, 2024) explores how that pivotal slice of time tastes to a bright, obsessive-compulsive boy who is shipped off to a hothouse academic boarding school as he reaches the age of thirteen--just as Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited starts to bite, and the Beatles's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club…
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Dynamic Repetition: History and Messianism in Modern Jewish Thought (Brandeis UP, 2022) proposes a new understanding of modern Jewish theories of messianism across the disciplines of history, theology, and philosophy. The book explores how ideals of repetition, return, and the cyclical occasioned a new messianic impulse across an important swath of…
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F*ck The Army! How Soldiers and Civilians Staged the GI Movement to End the Vietnam War (NYU Press, 2024) offers a comprehensive history of the FTA, an antiwar variety show featuring Jane Fonda that played to tens of thousands of active-duty troops over nine months in 1971. From its conception, the civilian-led show was directed towards making visi…
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War in the 21st century will remain a chameleon that takes on different forms and guises. Beyond Ukraine: Debating the Future of War (Oxford University Press, 2024) edited by Tim Sweijs and Jeffrey H. Michaels offers the first comprehensive update and revision of ideas about the future of war since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. It argues that …
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As Muslim American representation becomes more prominent in popular culture, how are they continued to be portrayed? Rosemary Pennington's new book Pop Islam: Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media (Indiana University Press, 2024) explores the “trap of hypervisibility” faced by Muslims in popular media and the burden of representation that follow…
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Politics in Action is an annual forum in which invited experts provided an analysis of the current political situation in Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Vietnam, and discussed the broader implications of events in these countries for the region. After the event, each of the six speakers sat for a podcast to chat with Dr Natali Pe…
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Around four thousand years ago, the mysterious Minoans sculpted statues of topless women with snakes slithering on their arms. Over one thousand years later, Sappho wrote great poems of longing and desire. For classicist Daisy Dunn, these women--whether they were simply sitting at their looms at home or participating in the highest echelons of powe…
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Playwright Naomi Westerman was an anthropology graduate student studying death rituals around the world when her whole family died, turning the end of lives from an academic pursuit into something deeply personal. She became fascinated by the concept of loss and grief, the multiple ways we experience it across cultures, history, and art. Happy Deat…
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Filling a gap in Eastern European fashion studies, this book presents middle-class women consuming fashion in the symbolic 'Little Paris' of interwar Bucharest, and examines how their material and cultural means supported the city's modernisation. Combining archival research with personal archaeology, this interdisciplinary work explores Romania's …
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How did ordinary Iraqis survive the occupation of their communities by the Islamic State? How did they decide whether to stay or flee, to cooperate or resist? Based on an original survey from Baghdad alongside key interviews in the field Surviving the Islamic State: Contention, Cooperation, and Neutrality in Wartime Iraq (Columbia University Press,…
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Jewish stars have longed faced pressure to downplay Jewish identity for fear of alienating wider audiences. But unexpectedly, since the 2000s, many millennial Jewish stars have won stellar success while spotlighting (rather than muting) Jewish identity. In Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy (NY…
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Welcome to the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. At CARGC, we produce and promote critical, interdisciplinary, and multimodal research on global medi…
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A. J. Rodriguez speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his story “Papel Picado,” which appears in The Common’s most recent issue. A.J. talks about the process of writing and revising this story, which explores a fraught moment in the life of a Latino high schooler struggling under the pressures of family, friendship, and expectation in Albuq…
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Several trends justify why it is worth analysing the concept of citizenship in international law. On the one hand, human mobility enhanced in the last decades of the twentieth century contributed largely to the multiplication of multiple citizenship. The phenomenon of migration, often linked to crises, fosters statelessness and presents new challen…
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We take it back and it's all politics as usual! We sat down with activist and content creator Salaah Muhammad of Salaah's Corner. As we all prepare for the 2020 election in November, we take some time out to break down the interworkings of our government, what's at stake in this year's elections, how we all can become more civically engaged, and wh…
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In Pinchas (Num. 25:10-30:1), the Moses prepares the people for crossing over into the land. The preparations come on the heels of violence and plague, but are meant to maintain peace and communal cohesion. Modya and David discuss how an attitude of calm and deliberation can help both individuals and communities in times of dramatic change. Please …
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It’s the 1930s. Amarendra Chandra Pandey, the youngest son of an Indian prince, is about to board a train when a man bumps into him. Amarendra feels a prick; he then boards the train, worried about what it portends. Just over a week later, Amarendra is dead—of plague. India had not had a case of plague in a dozen years: Was Amarendra’s death natura…
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Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, Hannah Freed-Thall's Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons (Columbia University Press, 2023) makes a case for the coastal zone as a surprisingly generative setting for twentieth-century literature and art. An unruly and elusive confluence of human and …
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This autobiography--Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story (Bloomsbury, 2024)--traces Francis X. Clooney's intellectual and spiritual journey from middle-class American Catholicism to a lifelong study of Hinduism. Clooney sheds fresh and realistic light on the idea and ideal of scholar-practitioner, since his wide learning, Christian …
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It’s the UConn Popcast, and Purple Rain, Prince’s semi-autobiographical, semi-concert film, hit cinemas 40 years ago this week. The movie followed the album of the same name by a few short weeks. While the album is considered a defining musical achievement, the movie met a mixed reception at the time, and later critics have been both troubled by it…
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Ronald Spatz is the editor-in-chief and co-founding editor of Alaska Quarterly Review. A formal National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Mr. Spatz has been recognized with Alaska State Governor’s Awards in Humanities and the Arts. He is currently a full professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, where he also s…
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Anxiety may have been abounding in the old Cold War West that progress - whether political or economic - has been reversed, but for citizens of former-socialist countries, murky temporal trajectories are nothing new. Grounded in the multiethnic frontier town of Hunchun at the triple border of China, Russia, and North Korea, Ed Pulford traces how se…
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Persevering with our literary theme this season, in this episode Claudia Radiven and Chella Ward chat to A. M. Dassu about her books for young readers. Az is a children’s author of fiction and non-fiction, whose books include Fight Back (Tu Books, 2022) and Boy, Everywhere (Tu Books, 2021). Her books engage young readers with themes of migration, a…
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Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy (Bloomsbury, 2023) is the story of James Ellroy, one of the most provocative and singular figures in American literature. The so-called “Demon Dog of Crime Fiction,” Ellroy enjoys a celebrity status and notoriety that few authors can match. However, traumas from the past have shadowed his literary …
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How do you turn a dissertation into a book? Today’s book is: The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook: Exercises for Developing and Revising Your Book Manuscript (U Chicago Press, 2023), by Dr. Katelyn E. Knox and Dr. Allison Van Deventer, which offers a series of manageable, concrete steps and exercises to help you revise your academic manuscript into a …
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In The Puppet Masters: How MI6 Masterminded Ireland's Deepest State Crisis (Mercier Press, 2024), David Burke uncovers the clandestine activities of Patrick Crinnion, a Garda intelligence officer who secretly served MI6 during the early years of the Troubles. As the Garda Síochána launched a manhunt for the Chief-of-Staff of the IRA, Crinnion found…
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The Republican Party held its nominating convention a week ago in Milwaukee, formally nominating former President Donald Trump as the standard-bearer for the GOP, and also his vice-presidential pick, Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH). Just before the convention kicked off, Trump was the target of an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania. The GOP convention…
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Welcome to Week 8 of our Summer of Stories series! This summer we have been featuring stories of incredible moms that have endured significant challenges. Through these stories, we pray you will remember that God is faithful and always with you through life’s most challenging moments. In this week’s story, you will hear from the extraordinary Cleer…
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Daddies, dissent, and big decisions on this week's docket! Marlon Wayans leads the rundown with his recent push for joint custody of his daughter; AOC has introduced articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas; and one of Holding Court jurors asked, "Why didn't Biden stack the courts?!" Eboni and Dustin a…
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We get personal this week and stay right on the f%cking healing train as Gabrielle sits down for a one-on-one with therapist Brooke Spahn to discuss the power of EMDR therapy. EMDR stands for ‘Eye Movement, Desensitization, and Reprocessing’ and Brooke shares some amazing insights into how it’s helped her clients reclaim their lives (and beliefs ab…
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Displaced Comrades: Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Dr. Ebony Nilsson explores the lives of left-wing Soviet refugees who fled the Cold War to settle in Australia, and uncovers how they adjusted to life under surveillance in the West. As Cold War tensions built in the postwar years, many o…
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Early pollsters thought they had the psychological tools to quantify American mind, thereby enabling a truly democratic polity that would be governed by a rational public opinion. Today, we malign the misinformed public and dismiss the deluge of frivolous polls. How did the rational public become the phantom public? We tell the story of George Gall…
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The war on the Eastern front remains relatively less well explored as compared to the western front of World War II. Yet some of the most titanic battles in modern military history occurred on the steppes of eastern Europe. Stalingrad and Moscow are names known to most but less well-known are the vast battles that occurred in Byelorussia. By June 1…
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Today I talked to Ben Kaplan about his new book (co-authored with Danny Parkins) Pipeline to the Pros: How D3 Small-College Nobodies Rose to Rule the NBA (Triumph Books, 2024). Jeff Van Gundy. Brad Stevens. Frank Vogel. Mike Budenholzer. Tom Thibodeau. Sam Presti. Leon Rose. Before you knew his name, before he drafted your favorite player, before h…
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The nature and reliability of the ancient sources are among the most important issues in the scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is noteworthy, therefore, that scholars have grown increasingly skeptical about the value of these materials for reconstructing the life of the Teacher of Righteousness. Travis B. Williams' book History and Memory in …
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In Theater As Data: Computational Journeys Into Theater Research (U Michigan Press, 2021), Miguel Escobar Varela explores the use of computational methods and digital data in theater research. He considers the implications of these new approaches, and explains the roles that statistics and visualizations play. Reflecting on recent debates in the hu…
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Distributed to millions of people annually across Africa and the global south, insecticide-treated bed nets have become a cornerstone of malaria control and twenty-first-century global health initiatives. Despite their seemingly obvious public health utility, however, these chemically infused nets and their rise to prominence were anything but inev…
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China’s modern history has been marked by deep spatial inequalities between regions, between cities, and between rural and urban areas. Contemporary observers and historians alike have attributed these inequalities to distinct stages of China's political economy: the dualistic economy of semicolonialism, rural-urban divisions in the socialist perio…
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Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power, and Law in Russia (UCL Press, 2022) by Alexander Sasha Kondakov uncovers techniques of power that work to translate emotions into violence against queer people. Based on analysis of over 300 criminal cases of anti-queer violence in Russia before and after the introduction of ‘gay propaganda’…
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Suddenly, the Sight of War: Violence and Nationalism in Hebrew Poetry in the 1940s (Stanford UP, 2016) is a genealogy of Hebrew poetry written in pre-state Israel between the beginning of World War II and the War of Independence in 1948. In it, renowned literary scholar Hannan Hever sheds light on how the views and poetic practices of poets changed…
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"Everyone assumed that in a more open, interconnected world, democracy and liberal ideas would spread to the autocratic states. Nobody imagined that autocracy and illiberalism would spread to the democratic world instead". So writes Anne Applebaum in Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World (Double Day Books, 2024). Applebaum's new b…
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In 1967, the US government funded the National Theatre of the Deaf, a groundbreaking rehabilitation initiative employing deaf actors. This project aligned with the postwar belief that transforming bodies, minds, aesthetics, and institutions could liberate disabled Americans from economic reliance on the state, and demonstrated the growing belief th…
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