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In the summer of 2020, as America underwent a reckoning with racism that was centuries in the making, Tiffanie Drayton wrote a provocative, personal, and widely shared New York Times essay called “I’m A Black American. I Had to Get Out.” In it, she reflects on her choice to leave the U.S. to return to her home island of Tobago, right before the pandemic and the murder of George Floyd—and how she felt grieving and raging for Black Americans from across an ocean. Now, in her powerful new memoir, "Black American Refugee: Escaping the Narcissism of the American Dream" (Viking), Drayton is telling her story – that of a woman coming to terms with how systemic racism has poisoned America, and ultimately deciding she has to leave the “land of the free” to be truly emancipated.

Sayantani DasGupta is the New York Times bestselling author of the critically acclaimed, Bengali folktale and string theory-inspired Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond books, the first of which -- The Serpent's Secret -- was a Bank Street Best Book of the Year, a Booklist Best Middle Grade Novel of the 21st Century, and an E. B. White Read Aloud Honor Book. Sayantani is a pediatrician by training, but now teaches at Columbia University."Debating Darcy" is Sayantani DasGupta’s reinterpretation of beloved Jane Austen classic "Pride and Prejudice."

Democrats have gotten a major chunk of President Biden’s agenda across the finish line. In today’s Congressional Corner, Democratic Rep. and Senate candidate Peter Welch of Vermont continues his conversation with WAMC’s Alan Chartock.

Fighting continues in Ukraine. In today’s Congressional Corner, Democratic Rep. and Senate candidate Peter Welch of Vermont wraps up his conversation with WAMC’s Alan Chartock.

This week's Book Picks come from owner of Bennington Bookshop, Phil Lewis.

2022 marks the 20th anniversary of the debut of “The Wire,” the five-season HBO masterpiece that is now considered one of television’s great achievements.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, Diplomat in residence at Bard College Frederic Hof, political consultant and lobbyist Libby Post, and Professor of Law, Director of The Justice Center and Director of Immigration Law Clinic Sarah Rogerson.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, investigative journalist and RPI adjunct professor Rosemary Armao, author, poet, novelist, storyteller and scholar of Native American culture Joseph Bruchac, and former Associate Editor of The Times Union Mike Spain.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, investigative journalist and RPI adjunct Rosemary Armao, Dean of the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany Robert Griffin, and investment banker on Wall Street Mark Wittman.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, Tetherless World Chair of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences and Founding Director of RPI’s Institute for Data, Artificial Intelligence and Computing Jim Hendler, President and CEO of The Business Council of New York State Heather Mulligan, and Albany County District Attorney David Soares.