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12 Days Of Soundcheck: Buscabulla
The Gig Alert is off sunning itself in the Bahamas for the holidays. Check back each weekday for a 24-hour download of a live Soundcheck performance from 2014.Buscabulla's name (Puerto Rican slang for...
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Artist Ashok Kondabolu and comedian Michelle Buteau grew up in immigrant families, straddling food cultures. They have different opinions on the line between assimilation and appropriation, but they...
View ArticleAfter More Violence at J'Ouvert, a Call for Change
After promises from the city of unprecedented security measures, Monday's annual predawn J'ouvert celebration in Brooklyn was still marred by violence. A 17-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman were...
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Hurricane Matthew carves a devastating path through Haiti
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Reports are just beginning to trickle in tonight, but already it’s clear Hurricane Matthew has sent long-suffering Haiti even deeper into misery....
View ArticleOther People's Food Pt. 5: Your Mom's Crappy Casserole
Ahead of the launch of a new series on race, culture and food called Who Is This Restaurant For? we’re repeating our series Other People’s Food, in case you missed part of it the first time around. In...
View ArticleTribute: Derek Walcott
In 2005, Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott came on The Leonard Lopate Show to discuss an exhibit of his paintings at the June Kelly Gallery in Soho. He had been providing the illustrations for his...
View ArticleA Musical Celebration of Love in the Caribbean
Lea Salonga talks about starring in the Broadway revival of Once on this Island, along with Lynn Ahrens, who wrote the book and lyrics. Based on the 1985 novel My Love, My Love: or The Peasant Girl by...
View ArticleWhat We Know About Haiti's Assassinated President, And What We Still Don't
Twenty-three former members of Colombia's military have been arrested as suspects in the assassination of Haiti's president, including one with former ties to U.S. law enforcement.On Today's...
View ArticleThe West Indian Roots of Hip Hop
In a clip from the archives, City Lore founder Steve Zeitlin, record store owner Patricia Chin and DJ Kool Herc talk about the West Indian roots of hip hop, and callers talk about the global influences...
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