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Colombia's Big Summer Music Festival Is All About Blackness

Elena Hinestrosa and her ensemble, Integración Pacífica, perform at one of Petronio Alvarez Music Festival's educational panels. Maria Paz Gutierrez hide caption

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Colombia's Big Summer Music Festival Is All About Blackness

The Petronio Alvarez festival is the big event of the summer — five days of music and food and fashion. More than 100,000 people travel to celebrate Afro-Colombian culture.

Week In Politics

by Ron Elving

Week In Politics

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Dorian Hits Parts Of North Carolina, Spares Others

by Joel Rose

Dorian Hits Parts Of North Carolina, Spares Others

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Opinion: Earth Has Survived Extinctions Before, It's Humans Who Are Fragile

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Opinion: Earth Has Survived Extinctions Before, It's Humans Who Are Fragile

by Scott Simon

Opinion: Earth Has Survived Extinctions Before, It's Humans Who Are Fragile

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Attorneys General Focus On Facebook And Google

by Aarti Shahani

Attorneys General Focus On Facebook And Google

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Veterinarians Are Killing Themselves. An Online Group Is There To Listen And Help

Seeing dogs all day has its perks, veterinary neurologist Carrie Jurney says. But it also has downsides, including stress, debt, long hours and facing online harassment. Janet Delaney for NPR hide caption

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Veterinarians Are Killing Themselves. An Online Group Is There To Listen And Help

by Scott Simon , Samantha Balaban , James Doubek

Veterinarians Are Killing Themselves. An Online Group Is There To Listen And Help

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Middle East

Helping Syrian Women Adjust To Life Without Men

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Europe

What's On Russian Voters' Minds

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How Ella Fitzgerald Is Influencing A New Generation Of Latinx Musicians

"Any person that wants to be a singer should know Ella Fitzgerald," Cuban artist Daymé Arocena says. Pablo Dewin/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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Turning The Tables

How Ella Fitzgerald Is Influencing A New Generation Of Latinx Musicians

by Catalina Maria Johnson

How Ella Fitzgerald Is Influencing A New Generation Of Latinx Musicians

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Strange News

Loch Ness Eel

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Media

Radio Host Art Bell's Vault Now Online

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World

Surviving Dorian In The Bahamas

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'Moscow Mitch': Democrats Push McConnell, But Kentucky Loyalists Stand By Him

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Politics

'Moscow Mitch': Democrats Push McConnell, But Kentucky Loyalists Stand By Him

by Ryland Barton

'Moscow Mitch': Democrats Push McConnell, But Kentucky Loyalists Stand By Him

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National

Ronan Farrow On MIT And Jeffrey Epstein

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Why Margaret Atwood Said 'No' To A 'Handmaid's Tale' Sequel — Until Now

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Author Interviews

Why Margaret Atwood Said 'No' To A 'Handmaid's Tale' Sequel — Until Now

by Scott Simon

Why Margaret Atwood Said 'No' To A 'Handmaid's Tale' Sequel — Until Now

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Smoking Hemp Catches On

by Emily Corwin

Smoking Hemp Catches On

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Sports

Saturday Sports: U.S. Open, NFL

by Tom Goldman

Saturday Sports: U.S. Open, NFL

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Music Reviews

Critiquing Lana Del Rey

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Strange News

A Tomato Grows Near Brooklyn

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Elena Hinestrosa and her ensemble, Integración Pacífica, perform at one of Petronio Alvarez Music Festival's educational panels. Maria Paz Gutierrez hide caption

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Code Switch

Colombia's Big Summer Music Festival Is All About Blackness

by Maria Paz Gutierrez

Colombia's Big Summer Music Festival Is All About Blackness

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