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Men have boxed in the Olympic games since the ancient Greeks adopted the sport more than two thousand years ago. Women, never. That changes this year, when women enter the Olympic boxing ring for the first time.
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Underreported from WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show

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Underreported from WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show
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Major news events throughout the world continue to be largely ignored until they reach tragic proportions. Underreported, a weekly feature on The Leonard Lopate Show, tackles these issues and give an in-depth look into the stories that are often relegated to the back pages.
Newsmakers meet New Yorkers as host Brian Lehrer and his guests take on the issues dominating conversation in New York and around the world. This daily program from WNYC Studios cuts through the usual talk radio punditry and brings a smart, humane approach to the day's events and what matters most in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, Death, Sex & Money, Nanc ...
Radiolab is a show about curiosity. Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich use state-of-the-art sound design, mind-bending story-telling, and a sense of humor to ask big questions and blur the boundaries between science, philosophy, and human experience. Radiolab is produced in New York at WNYC, and heard on over 300 public radio stations across the country.
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The Takeaway: Story of the Day
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Daily highlights from The Takeaway, the national morning news program that delivers the news and analysis you need to catch up, start your day, and prepare for what's ahead. The Takeaway, along with the BBC World Service, The New York Times and WGBH Boston, invites listeners every morning to learn more and be part of the American conversation on-air and online at thetakeaway.org.
WNYC’s Money Talking brings you conversations that go beyond the headlines and economic jargon for a look at what’s happening in the business world and in the workplace – and why it matters in your life. WNYC Studios is the producer of other leading podcasts including Freakonomics Radio, Note to Self, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin and many others.
A podcast about how and why gentrification happens. Season 3, produced in partnership with WLRN, Miami’s public radio station, introduces us to “climate gentrification,” reporting about the ways climate change, and our adaption to it, may seriously intensify the affordable housing crisis in many cities. In many parts of the US, black communities were pushed to low-lying flood prone areas. As Nadege Green reports, in Miami, the opposite is true. Black communities were built on high elevation ...
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The Climate Provisions in Governor Hochul's Budget
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Liz Moran, policy advocate for Earthjustice's Northeast office, discusses the climate provisions in the Governor's new budget and what Earthjustice believes could be improved.By WNYC
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Iconic artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres makes some noise in a posthumous exhibit
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Nothing can quite prepare you for the sound that echoes inside the new Felix Gonzalez-Torres exhibit at David Zwirner Gallery in Chelsea. The space is the definition of discrete, offering up lots of blank white walls to help the viewer to focus on the rich layers of Gonzalez-Torres's massive, minimalist installations. Except for the far-away rumble…
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A Scholar's Take on the Changes to the New AP African American Studies Course
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After Florida Governor Ron DeSantis banned the new AP African American studies course from the state, the College Board released a revised version of the course that many are saying is missing key elements of history. Noliwe Rooks, department chair and professor of Africana studies at Brown University, reflects on what's in, and what students will …
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Oddisee, True to Deep-Thinking Form, Questions Drive and Ambition
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The Sudanese-American rapper Oddisee – born Amir Elkhalifa – has been making socially conscious hip hop since 2008, and in live performance he’s known for playing not with a DJ or recorded samples but with a live band, called Good Company. Oddisee has just released the 2023 album called To What End, tackling big ideas of home, race, family, and hum…
Friday's jobs report was "jaw dropping" according to CNN, and "stunningly good" according to CNBC, even though major tech companies laid off thousands of workers. Listeners call in to share if they got a new job, or if they were laid off in the past month or so, and what they think it says about the direction of their industries.…
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Suburban Members of Congress Take on Congestion Pricing
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U.S. Representative Mike Lawler (R, NY-17) and U.S. Representative Josh Gottheimer (D, NJ-5), explain why they are against the congestion pricing plan, which would charge drivers heading into Manhattan below 60th Street.By WNYC
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The African American exodus from New York City
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Despite the high costs, the neighborhood squabbles, the rats and other challenges, the population of New York City is growing – up nearly 8% in the last 10 years. But that isn’t true for African American residents, whose numbers are headed in the opposite direction. From WNYC’s race and justice unit, Arya Sundaram reports from a neighborhood at the…
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A CCRB Report on NYPD Misconduct During Black Lives Matter Protests
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Arva Rice, interim chair of the Civilian Complaint Review Board, explains the details of a new comprehensive report on the findings of NYPD misconduct during Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the summer of 2020.By WNYC
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This Week in Politics: New funding formula proposed for the MTA
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This week, Governor Kathy Hochul released her yearly budget plan, outlining what she intends to do with taxpayer money. The presentation included a long-anticipated plan to raise more money for the debt-ridden MTA. The transit agency is facing a $600 million budget gap this year. That gap jumps to more than 1 billion dollars next year, and is proje…
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Weekend Arts Planner: "Southern Trees" in Chelsea and two Saturday night jazz highlights
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It's cold outside but the weather is just fine inside the galleries, clubs, theatres and concert halls of New York City. We have another week packed with great choices, including two jazz shows competing for our attention on Saturday night, Feb. 4. WNYC's Culture and Arts Editor Steve Smith joins Weekend Edition host David Furst to help sort it out…
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Staying Warm During This Weekend's Cold Snap
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Since the start of the "heat season" in October, New Yorkers have logged more than 138,000 no heat complaints with the city — outpacing heat complaints from the previous year, according to city data. WNYC's Housing Reporter David Brand joins to break down what New Yorkers can do to stay warm during this weekend's cold snap.…
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Three NYC modern-art museums reverberate with musical inspiration
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During a recent visit to the New Museum, on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, music reverberated throughout the building. The sound was emanating from the fourth floor, where Shedrick Mitchell, seated behind a Hammond B-3 organ with seven wood-encased Leslie speakers nearby, was improvising a medley of gospel hymns, soul and pop songs, and his own origi…
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New York Magazine's Modern Etiquette Guide
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Choire Sicha, editor at New York Magazine, discusses new modern etiquette rules for our socially confusing era. Listeners call in with their questions and stories about awkward scenarios and navigating them.By WNYC
Troy Closson, New York Times reporter on the Metro desk covering education, talks about his recent reporting on the data showing a drop in the number of Black New Yorkers, especially children and teens.By WNYC
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"A smile a mile wide:" NJ councilmember remembers Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour
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The shooting death of Sayreville, New Jersey, Councilmember Eunice Dwumfour sent shockwaves across the state. Her loss is especially felt in the place where she lived and served. To get a better sense of who Dwumfour was in life, Sayreville Council Member Vincent Conti joined WNYC's Michael Hill to reflect on their time together on the borough coun…
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Getting Mercury Out of Beauty Products in NY
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A new state law bans beauty products that contain the harmful neurotoxin mercury. Many of these cosmetic have been used primarily by people of color. Karines Reyes, Assembly Member (D 87th, Bronx) and a sponsor of this legislation, shares the ins and outs of the new law—plus other news from the Assembly.…
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Publicly Grieving Tyre Nichols, and Others
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Charles Blow, New York Times opinion columnist, author and MSNBC political analyst, shares his thoughts on how family members of Black men and boys murdered by police officers are forced to mourn in public, and reflects on the week since the video was released. →"This is a Moral Crime" (NYT, 2/1/23)By WNYC
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Holdout tenant in $1,500 West Village apartment fears demolition of historic townhouse
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A landlord's plan to renovate a set of historic townhouses in the West Village is being complicated by a lone tenant who refuses to vacate his $1,500 a month rent stabilized apartment. Russel Patrick Brown is a harpist and software engineer who’s lived in a 200-square-foot studio apartment on Gay Street for 13 years. The median asking rent in the W…
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Brian Lehrer Weekend: V's Reckoning; La Brega's Music of Puerto Rico; Backyard Chickens
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Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. V: Personal and Political (First) | Introducing La Brega: Season Two (Starts at 37:00) | Can Backyard Chickens Make Up For Egg Prices? (Starts at 57:55) If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.…
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Glam Rock Art Collective UNI and The Urchins Learns How to Speak Robot
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New York -based UNI and The Urchins was started by “bassist/director/engineer/probably wizard” Charlotte Kemp Muhl (Bust Magazine), and in lead singer Jack James Busa, they have an androgynous alien who brings a glorious glam rock sensibility to the band’s mix of psychedelia and post punk. The band has just released their debut LP, called Simulator…
The hit 1990s movie "Groundhog Day" made the phrase shorthand for the same thing happening over and over again. Listeners call in to share what feels like "groundhog day" in their lives, and what they're doing to try to change it.By WNYC
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When You Are Your Parents' Retirement Plan
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Mike Dang, business desk editor at The New York Times, talks about his recent story on the added financial burden faced by the children of East Asian immigrants and others who are expected to support their parents in retirement. → Their Children Are Their Retirement PlansBy WNYC
Jon Campbell, Albany reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, and Katie Honan, reporter at The City and co-host of FAQ NYC, offer analysis of Gov. Hochul's budget proposal, which starts the negotiation process with the legislature.By WNYC
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Thursday Morning Politics with Rep Goldman: Inside the Republican Led Congress, George Santos, Migrants Shelter and More
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U.S. Representative Dan Goldman (D, NY-10) former lead counsel for the impeachment investigation of President Trump in 2019, and former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District NY, talks about the latest news from Congress.By WNYC