NPR17 hours ago'James' revisits Huck Finn's traveling companion, giving rise to a new classicverified_publisherNPR - Carole V. BellAn enslaved man debates John Locke. A Black man pretends to be a white man in blackface to sing in a new minstrel show. In a fever dream of a retelling, the new reigning king of satire, Percival Everett, has turned one of America's best loved classics, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, upside down, …
NPR1 day agoChristine Blasey Ford aims to own her story with 'One Way Back'verified_publisherNPR - Reena AdvaniChristine Blasey Ford said civic duty compelled her to come forward when she learned Brett Kavanaugh was President Trump's top choice for a Supreme Court opening in the summer of 2018. But her testimony did not change the ultimate result of Kavanaugh's nomination. Ford testified before the Senate …
NPR1 day agoThis Women's History Month, how physics connects two Bengali women born decades apart : Short Waveverified_publisherNPR - Margaret Cirino , Regina G. Barber , Rebecca RamirezWhen Shohini Ghose was studying physics as a kid, she heard certain names repeated over and over. "Einstein, Newton, Schrodinger," she recalls. "They're all men." Ghose is a quantum physicist and a physics and computer science professor at Wilfrid Laurier University. Growing up, she questioned why …
NPR1 day agoQ&A: Author of 'Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African' on Coke's surprising historyverified_publisherNPR - Diane ColeAuthor-historian Sara Byala had an epiphany about Coca-Cola's role in African life and culture in 2003. She and a group of fellow graduate students had found their way across Mali's Saharan Desert via an arduous journey that involved a broken-down jeep followed by bouts of hiking and …
NPR1 day ago'The Exvangelicals' follows the lives of people who loved, then left the Churchverified_publisherNPR - Ayesha Rascoe , Sarah McCammonNPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Sarah McCammon, NPR National Political Correspondent, about her religious upbringing and new book, "The Exvangelicals."
NPR2 days agoNobel Prize-winning author Mo Yan is being sued in China for 'distorting history'verified_publisherNPR - Scott SimonThe Chinese Nobel Prize-winning author Mo Yan is being sued for allegedly insulting national heroes. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Cornell Professor Jessica Chen Weiss about the case.