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Commentator Darrell West, who teaches political science at Brown University, says this could be one of the most exciting and important elections in four decades. But voters are not paying attention to what could be a very exciting race.

ALEX REFLECTS ON THE DEATH, THIS WEEK, OF THE INVENTOR OF NYLON AND ONE OF THE CREATORS OF SUPERMAN. AND IT WAS A DEATH OF ANOTHER SORT, TOO, FOR COSMOPOLITAN EDITOR HELEN GURLEY BROWN, WHO'S STEPPING DOWN.

Scott talks with author Michael Azerrad about the indie rock movement. Mr. Azerrad's book is Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 (Little, Brown).

Host Lisa Simeone talks to jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut about his latest CD, Cyrus Chestnut & Friends, which pays tribute to the music of the Charles Schultz inspired Peanuts TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas.

Last week, Brown University named a new president, the first African American woman to lead an Ivy League University. NPR's education correspondent Claudio Sanchez has a profile.

Catholic Nuns and lay women are seeking ways to involve more women in religious life. This sometimes involves new interpretations of the vows of celibacy, poverty, and obedience, as Karen Brown reports.

In Civil Rights Queen, author Tomiko Brown-Nagin profiles Motley, a Black woman who wrote the original complaint in Brown v. The Board of Education and was on Martin Luther King's legal team.

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-845119.mp3Albany, NY – According to one study, up to 20 percent of untreated people…

Vermont's Episcopal church has for the first time chosen an African-American woman as its bishop.The Reverend Shannon MacVean-Brown was elected Saturday…

Requested by the family, a preliminary, independent autopsy has found that Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot six times by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo.