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Science Cafe: Science on the Fly Airs Monday at 9:00 AM Why fruit flies are crucial to our understanding of the immune system.

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‘Slavery by Another Name,’ Fashion Week and Opera in Cleveland Airs Monday at 12:00 PM Today we preview the new PBS documentary 'Slavery by Another Name,' with Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian Douglas A. Blackmon

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Forced Labor A new documentary, "Slavery By Another Name," helps explain today's economic achievement gap between African-Americans and whites.
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Canonization Of First Native American Saint Stirs Up Joy, Resentment While some celebrate a Mohawk woman's sainthood, others say the event glosses over the Catholic Church's rocky past with Indians.
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Science Cafe: Science on the Fly

The Sound of Ideas
Posted February 13, 2012

Sure they're annoying, but science knows the common fruit fly is a lot more than just a pest. Fruit flies are crucial to our understanding of the human immune system. Scientific researchers worldwide use them and other model organisms to learn about genetics, metabolism, physiology, and behavior. On the next Sound of Ideas, a Science café discussion with local researchers on how fruit flies are telling us so much about ourselves. Monday at 9 on 90.3.

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‘Slavery by Another Name,’ Fashion Week and Opera in Cleveland

Around Noon
Posted February 13, 2012

Today we preview the new PBS documentary 'Slavery by Another Name,' with Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian Douglas A. Blackmon. Plus Case Western Reserve University's Mary Davis reports on Fashion Week in New York City and spotlights the acclaimed film 'Bill Cunningham New York.' And we share a short panel discussion on the state of opera in Northeast Ohio with The Cleveland Institute of Music's David Bamberger, The Plain Dealer's Don Rosenberg, and Dorota Sobieska of Opera Circle.

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William’s Leap For Freedom

90.3 WCPN Special Broadcast
Airs February 17, 2012

Hosted by Dion Graham. This original play is based on the life of freed slave William Wells Brown.

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Rethinking Religion - The Harlem Renaissance: Music, Religion, and the Politics of Race, Part 1

90.3 WCPN Special Broadcast
Airs February 17, 2012

An exploration in words and music of how music, religion, and politics intersected during this rich period in African American history.

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Heavenly Sight: A Vision Found

90.3 WCPN Special Broadcast
Airs February 18, 2012

Heavenly Sight: Black Gospel's Blind Singers

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