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  • This week on BAY MADE: Freedom Needs a Soundtrack. Thirty years ago, an unlikely group of artists, activists, and friends helped build the Tibetan Freedom Concerts into one of the largest concert series of the 1990s and a rallying cry for nonviolence, freedom, and Tibet. Freedom Needs a Soundtrack looks back at how the concerts began, what they changed, and what their legacy offers now.
  • This week on BAY MADE: Freedom Needs a Soundtrack. Thirty years ago, an unlikely group of artists, activists, and friends helped build the Tibetan Freedom Concerts into one of the largest concert series of the 1990s and a rallying cry for nonviolence, freedom, and Tibet. Freedom Needs a Soundtrack looks back at how the concerts began, what they changed, and what their legacy offers now.
  • In honor of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, NOTES FROM THE EDGE looks beyond the fireworks and fanfare, and examines the stories we tell about who we are as a country. Host Jeff Chang talks monuments with Jamelle Bouie (NYT columnist), Paul Farber (Monument Lab). He also talks with three culture makers—Leyla McCalla, La Doña and Julian Brave Noisecat—about their ideal national anthem.
  • In honor of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, NOTES FROM THE EDGE looks beyond the fireworks and fanfare, and examines the stories we tell about who we are as a country. Host Jeff Chang talks monuments with Jamelle Bouie (NYT columnist), Paul Farber (Monument Lab). He also talks with three culture makers—Leyla McCalla, La Doña and Julian Brave Noisecat—about their ideal national anthem.
  • In honor of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, NOTES FROM THE EDGE looks beyond the fireworks and fanfare, and talks with three culture makers—Leyla McCalla, La Doña and Julian Brave Noisecat—about their ideal national anthem.
  • Queer Power Hour
    This week on the Queer Power Hour, we’ll celebrate Asian and Pacific American Heritage month with the hosts of Nancy.
  • Queer Power Hour
    Standing up for what you believe. That is why the LGBTQ+ community exists and why we have the rights we do. On this episode QUEER POWER HOUR shares the stories of LGBTQ+ folks who have been a part of the struggle for equality.
  • Queer Power Hour
    in honor of Earth Day and Poetry Month, we’re sharing stories about two LGBTQ+ writers whose work celebrated the natural world: Rachel Carson and Walt Whitman.
  • Queer Power Hour
    In honor of National Poetry Month, we're spotlighting LGBTQ+ themes and poets. This week, we’re talking to queer Native American poet Tommy Pico about writing about sex and to literary critic Stephanie Burt about what makes a poem gay.
  • Queer Power Hour
    To mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is Tuesday, April 14, QUEER POWER HOUR is revisiting Making Gay History's series about the dark, overlooked history of Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people in the lead up to World War II and during the Holocaust.
  • Philosophy Talk
    The life and thought of the original Cynic.
  • Tuesday Night Special
    Hear Viet Thanh Nguyen (Pulitzer Prize Winner and host of the Áccented podcast) in conversation with acclaimed author Ocean Vuong.