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In 2017, the genre-bending band Lake Street Dive went from a quartet to a quintet. The band members asked their newest musician, keyboardist Akie Bermiss, to come on board with a “marriage proposal.”
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Poet Porsha Olayiwola uses Afrofuturism to look back at history. “It’s reimagining, it’s reconciling, it’s inserting magic in a way that feels like…
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Editor’s Note: After five years on air, our weekly radio program NEXT is coming to an end. The show focused on New England at a time of change and…
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At first, Rebecca Carroll’s childhood in rural New Hampshire seemed idyllic. But as a Black child raised by adoptive white parents, her life became much…
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Alison Bechdel is a popular American cartoonist. She’s best known for her graphic memoir “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic,” which was later adapted into a…
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Cities around New England have declared racism a public health crisis. Scholar-activist Katharine “Kat” Morris is especially interested in the…
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Yale University psychology professor Laurie Santos says happiness is about having joy in your life and with your life.“If we’re maximizing you being happy…
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Leticia Colón de Mejias worked for Hartford HealthCare for years. But after seeing a documentary about climate change, she changed the trajectory of her…
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We heard about Mardi Fuller from an Instagram post. She introduced herself as an outdoor enthusiast and shared how the “white colonial imagination has…
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In the rural town of Freedom, Maine -- population 700 -- there’s the renowned restaurant The Lost Kitchen. It’s the brainchild of owner and chef Erin…