Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Margaret talks with Prop about the Texan musician who sung his way out of prison.
Sources:
Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard
https://www.nytimes.com/1962/05/20/archives/if-youre-woke-you-dig-it-no-mickey-mouse-can-be-expected-to-follow.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/2022/12/22/what-is-woke-meaning-naacp-leaders-talk-about-the-word-martin-st-lucie-indian-river-treasure-coast/8091099001/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/09/what-is-woke-meaning/11425775002/
https://www.vox.com/culture/21437879/stay-woke-wokeness-history-origin-evolution-controversy
https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/scottsboro-boys
https://www.history.com/articles/scottsboro-boys
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/ledbetter-huddie-leadbelly
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Margaret reads you two stories and a poem from an anthology of young, Palestinian authors
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Margaret continues talking with Kaveh Hoda about the complicated history of homosexuality and homoeroticism in one of the most important empires of the medieval era.
Sources:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41299403
https://www.thecollector.com/osman-i-ottoman-founder/
https://islamichistory.org/osman-gazi/
https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/jmurj/vol9/iss1/4/
https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/homosexuality-ii/
https://www.webology.org/data-cms/articles/20220528061731pmwebology%2019%20(2)%20-%20670%20pdf.pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6074556/
https://yoksis.bilkent.edu.tr/pdf/files/10.1177-0363199013519126.pdf
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/164086
https://www.juancole.com/2025/12/literature-societies-homoerotic.html
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Margaret talks with Kaveh Hoda about the complicated history of homosexuality and homoeroticism in one of the most important empires of the medieval era.
Sources:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41299403
https://www.thecollector.com/osman-i-ottoman-founder/
https://islamichistory.org/osman-gazi/
https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/jmurj/vol9/iss1/4/
https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/homosexuality-ii/
https://www.webology.org/data-cms/articles/20220528061731pmwebology%2019%20(2)%20-%20670%20pdf.pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6074556/
https://yoksis.bilkent.edu.tr/pdf/files/10.1177-0363199013519126.pdf
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/164086
https://www.juancole.com/2025/12/literature-societies-homoerotic.html
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Margaret reads you several short stories written by the one of the ideological leaders of the Mexican Revolution
Original Air Date: 6.1.2025
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