On America

Our On America series explores issues important to all Americans as we approach the 2020 election. Who are we? Who are we becoming? How do the stories we tell shape who we are as a nation?

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Calls to Remove: On Confederate Statues in America

Part of our On America series exploring issues important to all Americans as we approach the 2020 election.

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Joe Wilkins Presents Fall Back Down When I Die with Pam Houston and Luis Alberto Urrea

Shortlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Fall Back Down When I Die explores issues of social disharmony, generational...
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Marie Mutsuki Mockett Presents American Harvest with Marlon James and Juston Wolgemuth

American Harvest by Marie Mutsuki Mockett is a beautifully written book about one woman’s experience across “the...
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Introducing… Gabriel Bump’s Everywhere You Don’t Belong with Kaitlyn Greenidge

Hilarious moments abruptly follow terrifying events in Gabriel Bump’s extraordinary debut Everywhere You Don’t Belong

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Culture and Conflict: Exploration and Finding 'Home' in the Americas

Lauren Francis-Sharma and Tiphanie Yanique on Book of the Little Axe.

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DW Gibson on 14 Miles: Building the Border Wall with Luis Alberto Urrea

Journalist DW Gibson discussed his book 14 Miles: Building the Border Wall, which takes us to the ecosystem surrounding the fourteen completed miles of Trump’s border wall in San Diego County, with writer Luis Alberto Urrea

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Calls to Remove: On Confederate Statues in America

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Joe Wilkins Presents Fall Back Down When I Die with Pam Houston and Luis Alberto Urrea

Marie Mutsuki Mockett Presents American Harvest with Marlon James and Juston Wolgemuth

Introducing… Gabriel Bump’s Everywhere You Don’t Belong with Kaitlyn Greenidge

Culture and Conflict: Exploration and Finding 'Home' in the Americas

DW Gibson on 14 Miles: Building the Border Wall with Luis Alberto Urrea