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Raising teenage girls can be a tough job. Raising black teenage girls as white parents can be even tougher. Aaron and Colleen Cook knew that when they adopted their twin daughters, Mya and Deanna. As spring came around this year, the girls, who just turned 16, told their parents they wanted to get braided hair…

The second season of Huang’s World, chef Eddie Huang’s punchy man-on-the-street food and travel show that airs on Viceland, returned in late June. Its first episode, though, carried a heavier load than usual: wading through America’s troubled waters. In a segment following an Inauguration Day visit to Washington, D.C.’s oldest black-owned restaurant, Huang meets with…

Artificial intelligence is poised to continue advancing until it is “everywhere” — and before it gets there, Tolga Kurtoglu wants to make sure it’s trustworthy. Kurtoglu is the CEO of Parc, the iconic Silicon Valley research and development firm previously known as Xerox Parc. Although it’s best known for its pioneering work in the early…

Subscribe to A Twin Peaks Podcast: A Podcast About Twin Peaks – on iTunes, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts – to unwrap the mysteries in EW’s after-show every Monday during the Showtime revival. Part 10 of Twin Peaks: The Return was an episode of four letter words and hurting fists, most of them…

Black women may be the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs, but there are very few outlets where they can discuss their ambitions, trials and tribulations, and achievements. This is where a podcast called Side Hustle Pro, created and hosted by Nicaila Matthews, hopes to step in. According to Matthews, Side Hustle is the first and only…

Four extremely long and interesting episodes to keep you company while you stay indoors As I retreat further and further into the black hole that is my air-conditioned, cosy bedroom (courtesy of the scorching heat), I’ve been using up more time than usual listening to podcasts — some entirely useless and already forgotten, but some…

This week on KALW’s showcase for the best stories from public radio podcasts and independent radio producers… “Removing Confederate Monuments: Why Now and What’s Next?,” produced for the podcast We Live Here, July 2017. From St. Louis Public Radio in Missouri, the procurers of the podcast We Live Here present sticky arguments about culture and…

Hitting the road this summer? Listening to road trip classics like “Sweet Home Alabama” and “Born to Run” on repeat will only get you so… Read More.

New Statesman SRSLY #101: Baby Driver / Okja / Happy ValleyNew StatesmanOn the pop culture podcast this week: the Edgar Wright film Baby Driver, the Netflix feature Okja and the BBC drama Happy Valley. …. The second is an undercurrent – the artists of the civil rights movement and their successors – and is exclusively…

Photo Jay-Z and Beyoncé at the Met Gala in 2015. Credit Mike Coppola/Getty Images There was every reason to see the ads for Jay-Z’s “4:44” and think it was a stunt — or, that it was just a stunt. But his 13th (more or less) solo record is also one of his best, in part…