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Host Michel Martin and the Beauty Shop ladies discuss whether GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum can appeal to women voters in the general election. Also, Chris Brown was convicted of assaulting Rihanna three years ago, and now their working relationship has some wondering if they are condoning abuse.

On this week’s 51%, we speak with University at Albany professor Dr. Janell Hobson about the life and work of Harriet Tubman, and a new project with Ms. magazine to mark Tubman’s 200th birthday. We also speak with author Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts about her book Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration.

Taxidermists, muralists and a crew of others have spent years sprucing up the Hall of North American Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. On Saturday, the hall reopens to the public. Weekend Edition host Scott Simon talks with curator Ross MacPhee about the project.

Florida International University's medical school has made community-based health care a central part of its curriculum. With home visits and a mobile health clinic, students connect with families in neighborhoods where medical care is scarce.

Actor Chadwick Boseman has died of cancer. He played James Brown, Jackie Robinson and Thurgood Marshall, but may have been best known for starring in Marvel's Black Panther.

The helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant and eight others in January has highlighted a decades-old problem in aviation: pilots continuing flights into bad weather rather than landing.

In Youngstown, Ohio, The Vindicator stops publication on Saturday after 150 years, signaling one more gut punch to a struggling city. With a news desert, who will guard the civic henhouse?

A battle is being fought over who owns viral dance moves on Internet video apps. Black and Brown creators on Dubsmash say TikTok creators are profiting off their dance moves.

It's been three years since the shooting on an unarmed black teen sparked protests in Ferguson, Mo. We hear from a young activist in St. Louis who was a student back then, how she feels things have changed today.

During an informational forum Monday in Newburgh about PFOS contamination found in the city’s drinking water supply, federal, state and local officials…