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No. 137: African American Music Appreciation Month

Jun 2, 2016

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Thanks to Peter Bakke for the tip on June being African-American Music Appreciation Month. To get you started, consider taking a listen to Robert Glasper’s new album, Everything’s Beautiful, where he samples a bunch of Miles Davis recordings. I’ve been meaning to listen to more of Prince’s discography, so I’ll probably start working through that…
No. 70: President Obama is Going to Kenya: Dumb or Nah?

May 19, 2015

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Witney Schneidman, Fellow at the Brookings Institution, wrote this rebuttal of Harvard professor Robert Rotberg’s Politico piece which panned President Obama’s upcoming trip to the country for the Global Entrepreneurship Summit as a bad idea. Quick thoughts: I’m not sure President Obama tacking on a trip to Ethiopia would go over well with Africa watchers,…