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    May 21, 2020

    ALOUD Inside! with Wendy MacNaughton

    Wendy MacNaughton

    For the month of May, in celebration of illustrators, ALOUD’s Director of Public Programs, Jessica Strand, interviewed NYT best-selling illustrator…

    Video
    July 16, 2020

    Dreams, Genes, & Machines: Are We Living Science Fiction?

    Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl and Dr. Andrew N. Meltzoff

    The first five years of life are the most critical for learning. As children are using technology earlier and more…

    VideoPodcast
    February 6, 2020

    Carl Zimmer

    Carl Zimmer

    Quantum mechanics is the most important idea in physics, and physicists themselves readily admit that they don’t understand it. Genetics…

    Video
    October 17, 2019

    Ta-Nehisi Coates

    Ta-Nehisi Coates

    In a special evening celebrating National Book Award-winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates’ first book of fiction, he’ll be joined by Ryan…

    GalleryVideoPodcast
    May 17, 2018

    Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: How Capitalism Works – and How it Fails

    Yanis Varoufakis

    Greece’s former finance minister, international bestselling author, and an activist working for the revival of democracy in Europe, Yanis Varoufakis…

    GalleryVideoPodcast
    June 21, 2017

    Daring to Drive:
    A Saudi Woman’s Accidental Activism

    Manal al-Sharif

    From growing up as a devout woman from a modest family in Saudia Arabia to becoming an unexpected leader of…

    GalleryVideoPodcast
    January 31, 2018

    Exiled from Cairo: Humor as Dissent

    Bassem Youssef

    Bassem Youssef, a satirist who rose to international fame in the middle of the Egyptian Revolution with his incendiary brand…

    GalleryVideoPodcast
    July 24, 2018

    From Prison to President: The Letters of Nelson Mandela

    A reading, conversation, and celebration with Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela, Sahm Venter, Michael Datcher, Ashaki Jackson, Amanda Gorman, DJ Nnamdi Moweta

    On the centenary of Nelson Mandela’s birth, comes a new portrait of one of the most inspiring historical figures of…

    GalleryVideoPodcast
    July 17, 2018

    Bruce Lee and the Afro-Asian Culture Connection

    W. Kamau Bell, Jeff Chang, Shannon Lee

    In the 1970’s Bruce Lee captivated African American audiences with his stylish and philosophical kung fu movies. Lee was a…


    January 1, 1970

    Unbreakable Spirit: The Freed Angola Three

    In a special Los Angeles visit, human rights activists Robert King and Albert Woodfox, the two surviving members of the…