Month: April 2025

The Russian president announced a temporary ceasefire, citing humanitarian reasons, as Russia and Ukraine swapped hundreds of captured soldiers.

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Corporate sponsors for the usually apolitical event held on the White House South Lawn include tech giants Meta, YouTube and Amazon.

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This week, we’re live in Durham with special guest Lewis Black and panelists Dulcé Sloan, Alonzo Bodden, and Adam Burke

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On the 30th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, a theater production brings the stories of survivors and victims to the next generation.

In the news, Sudan is often discussed a place devastated by a civil war and home to the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. But a podcast sharing Sudanese folklore shows more about the culture.

This latest Ryan Coogler/Michael B. Jordan collaboration is set in 1930s Mississippi — it’s awash in gorgeous music, turbulent romance, pan-African spiritualism and, by the end, buckets of blood.

Reid’s book, Medgar and Myrlie, tells the stories of the civil rights leader from Mississippi and his wife, who became an activist after Medgar’s 1963 assassination. Originally broadcast Feb. 7, 2024.

This month has brought a shower of new podcasts for your playlist. The NPR One team gathered a few returning favorites as well as some fresh releases from across public media.

The comedy duo of Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong became the standard bearers of pot humor in the 1970s. They’re now the subjects of the documentary “Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie.”

The very scary movie Sinners finds Michael B. Jordan playing twin brothers who open a 1930s juke joint. And opening night does not go as planned. Written and directed by Ryan Coogler, (Black Panther), the film mixes blues music with classic horror in a standoff between the brothers and their friends on the inside and the bloodthirsty – and growing – menace outside.

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