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Music Interviews

11:03 am

Sun June 17, 2012

Kate McGarry: A Singer Inspired By The Spoken Word

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Kate McGarry's new album is titled Girl Talk.

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Originally published on Thu June 21, 2012 10:01 am

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Around the Nation

4:30 pm

Sat June 16, 2012

State Of The Unions: Labor And The Middle Class

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Occupy Wall Street protesters joined with unions in New York on May 1, a traditional day of global protests in sympathy with unions and leftist politics.

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Originally published on Sat June 16, 2012 8:05 pm

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For many full-time employees in the United States, the five-day work week, paid overtime and holidays are expected benefits. This wasn't always so, and many workers' benefits today are the achievements of labor unions.

Just five decades ago, unions were on the frontline of the fight for the rights and wages of the middle class. But today, unions are on the decline.

NPR Story

4:12 pm

Sat June 16, 2012

Gauging The Impact Of Obama's Immigration Policy

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Originally published on Sat June 16, 2012 4:24 pm

President Obama announced major changes in the country's immigration policy on Friday. NPR's Mara Liasson talks with weekends on All Things Considered host Jacki Lyden about what the changes are and the political impact they may have this election season.

World

4:12 pm

Sat June 16, 2012

Egypt Faces Tense Election For New President

By Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

Originally published on Sat June 16, 2012 4:24 pm

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Egyptians began two days of voting to elect the nation's first president since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak. The polling comes days after an Egyptian high court dissolved the country's first freely elected parliament and the election now reflects the deep divisions in the country that has been unsettled since its revolution last year.

Arts & Life

3:23 pm

Sat June 16, 2012

Embracing The Quirkiness Of Djuna Barnes

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Before publishing the plays and novels she's now known for, women's rights advocate Djuna Barnes was a journalist and illustrator.

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Writer Djuna Barnes had herself force-fed in 1914 to help her document the experience of English suffragettes on hunger strikes.

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Barnes shared her account of being force-fed in what curator Catherine Morris describes as a very moving piece in New York World Magazine. (Click here to read it.)

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Barnes' 1914 Trend magazine cover of a doughboy, or American soldier, in the trenches shows the extent of her political engagement in the early days of World War I.

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In a 1913 Brooklyn Daily Eagle piece, Barnes wrote about suffragist schools that train women to assert their rights in a ladylike fashion. (Click here to read it.)

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As in her Daily Eagle piece and this 1917 New York Morning Telegraph Magazine spread, Barnes often provided illustrations for her stories. (Click here to read the story.)

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Originally published on Sat June 16, 2012 6:06 pm

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A writer, illustrator and provocateur in the Roaring '20s, Djuna Barnes stood out.

"She was much more interested in embracing the quirky and embracing that idea that became so famous in feminist circles half a century later," Catherine Morris says, "the idea that the personal is political."

Morris is the curator of a new exhibition of Barnes' writings and illustrations called "Newspaper Fictions" at the Brooklyn Museum's Sackler Center for Feminist Art.

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