A jazz dance born in Harlem in the 1920s ends up in a tiny Swedish town. What happens when Black dancers try to bring the Lindy Hop home? Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
An Irish journalist discovers she belongs in a place she's never been. A 6-year-old boy decides he's from another country. Stories about finding home far from home. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
You can zoom around the world through sight and sound, but you can't taste at a distance, right? Stories about what happens when we try. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Marla kept a detailed account of Iraqi civilians harmed by war. How did she recruit people in the U.S. military to help them? And what toll did it take on her? Part 2 of the story of Marla Ruzicka. You can find Part 1 here . Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy...
Marla Ruzicka didn't belong in a war zone. Nobody in Afghanistan knew what to make of her. Until Marla started to solve a problem that no one thought could be solved. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Two worlds: dress uniforms and foosball tables. The military and Silicon Valley used to work hand in hand. Now, why won't big tech build them a new gonculator? Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Alicia's situation raises questions about the VA's caregiver program. And a new diagnosis changes everything for Matt. How will Alicia and Matt start healing their respective wounds, borne out of different battles? Find part 2, Battle Lines, here . And part 1, Battle Rattle, here . Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy...
Alicia Lammers takes on the twin roles of wife and caregiver to her veteran husband. What happens when your husband becomes your official duty? Part 2 of the story of Matt and Alicia Lammers. You can find Part 1, Battle Rattle, here . Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy...
He's a veteran looking for love. She's a civilian who learns more about war than she ever imagined. Part 1 of the story of Matt and Alicia Lammers. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Is it true that "you can't understand" if you've never been to war? In the first episode of our new season, we hear from people on opposing sides of a widening divide. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
As the U.S. pulls out of Afghanistan, we look back at a time when Taliban poetry and a local cooking show became part of the war. And the U.S. had the perfect person to fight on that front. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Heather Hansen used to teach people to speak "perfect" English. Until she realized that so-called "bad English" might be a better way to communicate. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Our favorite McDonald's in Marseille, France has reached its afterlife. It took court cases, spray paint, and the slogan you know turned upside down (literally) to get there. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
In the wake of the shootings in Atlanta, a Korean-American writer reconnects with her own family. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Two very different approaches to wooing vaccine skeptics. And how a little FOMO can go a long way. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
What happens when your guidebook isn't written with you in mind? Nanjala Nyabola on her new book: Travelling While Black. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Your stories and creative solutions to not quite fitting in. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
From Montréal to Edinburgh, and from São Paulo to Taipei: your stories about belonging, or longing to just be. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
France is the place where for decades you weren't supposed to talk about someone's blackness, unless you said it in English. Today, we're going to meet the people who took a very French approach to change that. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
For close to a year, Talia Lavin went undercover in white supremacist online communities, creating fake personas that would gain her access to the dark reaches of the internet normally off-limits to her, a Jewish woman. That research laid the groundwork for her book, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy. Lavin talks to It's Been A Minute host Sam Sanders about what it was like to infiltrate those online spaces, what she learned, and how white supremacy cannot exist w...
What can a young refugee who's survived a war teach a novelist about writing young adult adventure? Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Just because you can't vote, doesn't mean you're not watching. We crisscross the globe to understand how people see their fates and fortunes in the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. election. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
On this bonus drop, we feature an episode from the NPR podcast Louder Than A Riot called "Lyrics on Trial." Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
After a Ugandan scholar is suspended from her university job, she discovers a new tool for resistance: extreme public rudeness. Will it work against a strongman president? Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
What if more evangelical Christians in the United States fought climate change with the same spirit they bring to the issue of abortion? We go back to a surprisingly recent period when that happened. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
How does India's caste system play out in the hiring practices of Silicon Valley? And what happens when dominant caste people in the U.S. grapple with their own inherited privilege for the first time? Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
A Chinese idol had millions of fans who adored him for his kindness and good looks. Then, this February, one group of fans accused another of violating their image of him. What happens is a lesson in morality and revenge, love and hate, and how these feelings are weaponized on the internet. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy...
We're back with a special series, Rough Translation's "School of Scandal," stories about people around the world calling each other out and taking each other down to change the status quo. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
One man's mission to get hundreds of his fellow Venezuelans back home from Ecuador in a pandemic, even if it means walking all 1,300 miles. This story was originally reported for El Hilo , a new podcast from the makers of NPR's Radio Ambulante . Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy...
Ireland's "cocooning" policy during the coronavirus lockdown asked people over age 70 to stay at home and not to leave for any reason. Suddenly, neighbors and strangers leapt to help them with everything — if the cocooners would let them. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
