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Blue Ballads with Charles Brown
A live concert with songwriter and pianist Charles Brown. Brown is credited with creating an expressive style of blues that blended rough Texas blues with the soft glamour of Hollywood. Between 1946 and 1952, Brown recorded 20 hits, nine on his own, the rest as part of Johnny Moore's Blazers. He is featured in a new PBS documentary on the history of rhythm and blues.
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This doctor turned a 31-foot RV into one of the country's only mobile OB-GYN clinics
Tonya Mosley interviews Dr. MARY FARIBA AFSARI, a board-certified ob-gyn who walked away from a traditional practice, bought a 31-foot RV, and turned it into one of the country's only mobile gynecology clinics. Her book, Labor: One Woman’s Work, recounts her decision to leave traditional practice to reach communities most abandoned by our current healthcare system.
Inside Linda McMahon's effort to dismantle the Department of Education
Dave Davies interviews New Yorker Staff Writer ZACH HELFAND about his profile of Linda McMahon, President Trump’s Secretary of Education.
Even when Arsenio Hall's show was a hit, 'everyone wanted it to be something else'
Tonya Mosley interviews late night host Arsenio Hall about his new memoir, Arsenio