On today’s show: Kwasi Kwarteng tells the story of how our obsession with gold has long been intertwined with war. We take a look at how racial tensions spilled onto the baseball field in 1965, when Juan Marichal and John Roseboro fought during a game between the Giants and the Dodgers. James Monroe Iglehart talks about his Tony-nominated role as the Genie in “Aladdin,” along with by Thomas Schumacher, one of the musical’s producers.
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The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates explains how the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow and housing and mortgage discrimination trapped African-Americans in poverty. Plus: David Garcia-Rosen, founder of the Small Schools Athletic League, contends that small NYC high schools are shortchanged when it comes to sports funding.
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The eerie digital afterlife Elliot Rodger left behind, a former "tabloid hack" dishes about tabloids, and the brains behind #YesAllWomen
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It's that time of the month again for the new releases show on New Sounds. John Schaefer carefully separates the wheat from the chaff for this show. He'll sort through the stacks of new CDs, the Soundcloud files, and other digital submissions which have come across his desk and into his inbox over the past month to present some of the finest new releases. He'll skim off the cream. He'll pick the lentils from the ashes. You get it. There's music from cellist Erik Friedlander, and the Dublin Guitar Quartet, who have arranged the music of Philip Glass. Also, new recordings of music by Meredith Monk, and more.
