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The sons and daughters of slaves and slaveholders attempt racial reconciliation in York County, South Carolina – the onetime heart of the Klu Klux Klan. As they embark on their global journey, they find trauma – and heroes – through the generations...and a path to healing.

Assistere impotenti al lento scivolare di un familiare verso il male, senza poter prevedere quanto tragici saranno gli esiti. Scoprire un giorno che una persona amata è stata capace di commettere uno degli orrori più grandi, senza che tu abbia potuto far nulla per fermarla in tempo. Vedere il proprio cognome sui giornali, subire gli sguardi accusatori, anche se non si è colpevoli di nulla. Non poter uscire di casa per la vergogna, rendendosi conto che la vita non sarà mai più la stessa.

The Art of Confessing is an intimate diary entry from Jazmine Sullivan, a Grammy-winning vocal powerhouse blessed with the unique gift of emotional storytelling. R&B is a space for Black women to create their own language around love, sexuality, and heartache. Within that space, Jazmine Sullivan has built a strong, powerful sisterhood through her music.

Sleater-Kinney’s co-leaders Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein dig into 25 years of shared history-making music and making noise. Listen to this bold duo speak openly about the places, people, and movements that have shaped their career as well as the evolution of their creative and personal relationship. The bandmates and friends trace how their ambitions and their relationship have continued to inform each other and how they’ve navigated through the ups and downs for the sake of the band and their art.

In his vivid and profound addition to Audible’s Words + Music series, Jonathan Biss, the world renowned pianist and critical Beethoven interpreter of our time, expounds on the spellbinding hold the classical figure and his work possesses over him. Biss doesn’t just love Beethoven more than other music, he loves it more than most things. It’s the lens through which he understands the world, and has been since he can remember. But in Unquiet, Biss reveals the full extent to which Beethoven is also a ruthless lens through which he views himself.

Legendary Grammy Award-winning producer and towering musical icon T Bone Burnett speaks plainly, which is all the more reason why his stunning new Words + Music, The Confederacy: Truth and Reconciliation, lands with such force. And his songs, delivered straight from the heart, carry with them the weight of unvarnished truth and the wisdom he’s gathered from a lifetime.

Cristiano Ronaldo, James Rodríguez, Diego Costa, David de Gea, José Mourinho... they all have one name in common: Jorge Mendes. The Portuguese soccer super agent, pulls the strings and manages the flow of millions of Euros in the global Fútbol (soccer) market.

The brutalized body of 14-year-old Emmett Till was published in Jet magazine at the insistence of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. Mamie wanted the horrific photograph of her son’s lynched body to be displayed for the world to see, to expose America to its own barbaric acts of racial terror. As such, Emmett’s death and Mamie’s actions afterwards would ignite a crucial moment in the civil rights movement, changing the course of history forever.

Esta es la historia de una periodista diferente, que, además de desafiar los parámetros de ser mujer, de lo que significa la belleza y la inteligencia, encontró el equilibrio entre informar y ayudar a quienes más lo necesitan.

Three years before she began writing her New York Times best-selling book I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying, Bassey Ikpi returned to her native Nigeria to try to piece together a life that had fallen apart. Her career had been cut short by a bipolar II diagnosis and hospitalization, and she longed to find her way back to it. Nigeria welcomed her with promise. That fall, she created BasseyWorld presents Naija Poetry Slam, Nigeria's first National Poetry Slam competition, and she started getting hopeful.

On April 15, 2011, just before dawn, a group of women from Cherán, an indigenous community located in Michoacán, confronted the loggers who were illegally destroying their forest. They acted as a collective body, defending their territory and protecting their way of life. This was the birth of a resistance group that for more than 10 years has peacefully protected its land against the onslaught of criminal groups and the corrupt, complicit government.

Middle class, middle aged, multicultural mother of millennial sons, Sudha lives a ‘squeezed middle’ life in Wimbledon. As she navigates her career, family and returning to India as a NRI (Non-Resident Indian), she is prompted to investigate her own sense of home and place in the world. Evening Conversations is a warm-hearted monologue inspired by Sudha’s banter with her dual-heritage (Pakistani/East African Indian) millennial sons who have grown up in leafy Wimbledon while her life has spanned three continents. She invites her boys to ‘crack open a cold one’ and share their views on life.

El 26 de enero de 2016, Omar y Luis Viñas, dos hermanos de origen canario afincados en Venezuela, son secuestrados por una de las bandas más peligrosas de Sudamérica. Este secuestro, que se prolongará durante 38 días, movilizará a la Guardia Civil, al FBI, a la policía panameña y a las unidades antisecuestro venezolanas, y será uno de los más complejos a los que han tenido que enfrentarse estos cuerpos policiales.

In 1971, 12-year-old Lesley Cairns was a South African swimming phenom with big Olympic dreams.

Il podcast che vi farà entrare nella mente dei criminali mossi dal pregiudizio e dall'odio: sangue, non passione né brama di potere, ma l'insensata scelta di odiare. 20 efferati delitti legati al pregiudizio, dove la colpa della vittima è quella d'essere donna, oppure gay, d'appartenere a una diversa etnia o cultura, di professare una fede, di abbigliarsi e truccarsi in modo originale. In ogni puntata un caso principale, accompagnato da brevi citazioni di vicende internazionali.

Roma, agosto 2018: una donna di origini tedesche viene arrestata per spaccio internazionale di stupefacenti. Si chiama Alice. Con lei ci sono i suoi due figli, di 4 e 18 mesi, che finiscono con la madre nella sezione nido del carcere femminile di Rebibbia. Meno di un mese dopo, il 18 settembre 2018, un tonfo. Alice aspetta che le altre detenute siano in fila per il pranzo e scaraventa i figli giù dalle scale. Moriranno entrambi. La domanda che tutti si pongono è la stessa di sempre: come è potuto accadere? In parte lo ha stabilito una sentenza.

Torino 1974, sulla scia delle contestazioni del ’68 il sistema psichiatrico italiano viene messo in discussione da un processo che fa la storia. Per la prima volta le testimonianze dei “matti” vengono ascoltate per giudicare l’operato del dottor Giorgio Coda, tristemente noto col soprannome di “elettricista” per la sua abitudine a trattare i pazienti psichiatrici con l’elettroshock.

On night one of the NFL Draft, Alabama star Brian Branch sat backstage anxiously waiting for his name to be called. This was the defining moment of his lifetime; the culmination of years of hard work, struggle, and determination. The small-town kid turned Alabama football star was expected to be picked in the first round, that's why he had received one of the coveted invitations to attend the draft in person. Various experts had predicted that he would be drafted as high as pick 11. Would they be right? Or, as he so often felt, would Brian Branch have something to prove?

Iosi era un miembro muy respetado de la comunidad judía argentina, así como también era el secretario de la Organización Sionista Argentina. Detrás de la fachada de un hombre devoto, yacía un espía extremadamente entrenado quien fue colocado dentro de la comunidad judía para extraer información para el gobierno argentino. Su verdadero nombre: José Pérez. Sin embargo, Iosi no sabía que la información que entregó iba a ser utilizada para planear dos de los peores atentados terroristas de la historia argentina.

Planeta Crimen regresa en su tercera temporada explorando los acontecimientos más infames en la historia de latinoamérica y Estados Unidos.