Laura Karpman
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Karpman sets to music Langston Hughes' under-appreciated Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz, telling the story of America through culture, wit, beauty, and pain.
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Connections |
2009 |
Jorge Mursuli
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Every month, 50,000 Latinos in the U.S. turn 18; and with Latinos projected to be 50% of the U.S. population by 2050, the vote of this demographic group is more important than ever. Mursuli shares his vision for creating a sustainable national Hispanic progressive vote that manifests in long-term systemic change and the steps to make it happen.
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Connections |
2009 |
Ethan Nadelmann
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The U.S. has 5% of the world's population but 25% of the world's incarcerations; imprisoned 50,000 for drug crimes in 1980, a number which has ballooned to nearly 500,000 today; and locks up more people for violating drug laws than the entirety of Europe incarcerates for all crimes. Reformer Nadelmann postulates the true obstacles to re-envisioning the drug war lies within us--as fear, prejudice, and ignorance.
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Connections |
2009 |
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