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Vijay Prashad on Iran's New Regional Initiative for Syrian Peace

'Vijay Prashad discusses with  +Newsclick  the new initiative that Iran is proposing to place before the UN Security Council for peace in Syria. The Foreign Ministers of Russia and Syria have met with the Iranian Foreign Minister and worked out the contours of such a proposal. '

Here & Now: Bakari Kitwana Talks Straight Outta Compton

Here & Now’ s Robin Young is joined by activist and Hip-Hop historian Bakari Kitwana to discuss the legacy of N.W.A. and the biopic about the group Straight Outta Compton.  Kitwana is a former editor of The Source and the author of several books including The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture (2002) and  Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America (2005).

Julian Bond (1940-2015) + Garrett Morris on SNL (1977)--The IQ Test

Marketplace: A Requiem for the Fallen Columbia House

'This week, the company that owned music subscription service Columbia House — physical music, like, actual tape cassettes and CDs and stuff — filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The collapse of the company inspired Soraya Nadia McDonald, writer on arts, entertainment and culture for the Washington Post, to share this story of music, adolescence and figuring out who you are.' -- +APM: Marketplace 

#BlackTwitter After #Ferguson

Activists Johnetta "Netta" Elzie, DeRay McKesson and  Zellie Imani read their tweets from the past year and reflect on the challenges and legacy of the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

Jay Smooth: On #BlackLivesMatter and Defending Bernie Sanders

Jay Smooth on the disruption of the Bernie Sanders speech in Seattle last week, and the pushback it sparked from some Sanders supporters.

The Global African: Obama’s Africa Trip & Legacy of Colonialism in Puerto Rico

'Last month, President Obama became the first seated U.S. President to make the trek to Ethiopia and Kenya. So what was the visit about, and what got left out of the discussion? The debt crisis in Puerto Rico continues, as the commonwealth recently defaulted on a debt payment. What are the roots of this economic crisis?'-- +The Global African  with Bill Fletcher

"Straight Ahead" (1961)--Abbey Lincoln + Mal Waldron

Title track from Abbey Lincoln's Straight Ahead (1961), written and performed with pianist Mal Waldron.

#MovementMusic: "Hell You Talmbout"--Feat. Janelle Monáe, Deep Cotton, St. Beauty, Jidenna, Roman GianArthur + George 2.0.

#MovementMusic: "Hell You Talmbout"--Featuring Janelle Monáe, Deep Cotton, St. Beauty, Jidenna, Roman GianArthur, and George 2.0.

Making Sen$e: Puerto Rico Debt Crisis Drives Exodus to US

'New austerity measures are imposing more economic pain on U.S. territory Puerto Rico, which already has a poverty rate almost double that of America's poorest state. In turn, many are deciding to leave the island for better opportunity and pay in the states. Special correspondent Chris Bury reports on the human toll of the debt crisis.' -- +PBS NewsHour