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In Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author Helene Cooper tells the…
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South Sudan is the world’s newest country. The Central African nation gained independence in 2011, but in December 2013 internal conflicts erupted into…
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The Badass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts introduces readers to a mild mannered historian and…
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Todd Moss is chief operating officer and senior fellow at the Center for Global Development a Washington DC think tank, and an adjunct professor at George…
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Police are reportedly guarding the home of Katie Chappell in Rye. The American who was mauled to death by a lion in a South Africa game preserve has been…
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Dinaw Mengestu’s work, including his first two novels, have earned him incredible critical acclaim as well as a MacArthur Foundation genius grant and…
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The world is mourning the death in Broome County of a prominent African scholar who had ties to New York's State University system.Kenyan-born Professor…
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Today's panelists are Political Consultant Libby Post, Times Union Associate Editor Mike Spain and Helen Desfosses.Topics include:Obama on AfricaMidterm…
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This week in our Ideas Matter segment - we’ll learn about Mass Humanities’ Traveling Humanities Seminar to Ghana.In 1957 Ghana became the first country in…
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South Sudan is the latest global hot spot.In today’s Congressional Corner, New York Representative Chris Gibson — a Republican from the 19th district —…