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Weekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians. 

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Episodes

  • Helping First-Generation College Students

    At one Illinois school, first-generation students — the first in their families to go to college — make up 43% of the student population. The school has a program to help them navigate college.

  • 50 Years Of 'Sesame Street'

    When Sesame Street debuted 50 years ago, it was a game-changer for children's TV, with a multicultural cast and some wildly funny Muppets.

  • Lauren Michele Jackson On 'White Negroes'

    NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with author Lauren Michele Jackson about her new book White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue... and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation.
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    Sunday Puzzle: Cocoa

    Listener Gabrielle Sweets plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

  • When Migrants Die, Many Bodies Remain Unidentified

    NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Kristian Hernández of the Center for Public Integrity about the deaths of unidentified migrants, and how their families back home struggle with grief and closure.

  • Closing The Open Skies

    The Trump administration may be ready to bail out of the Open Skies treaty, which for 17 years has allowed the U.S. and Russia to surveil each other by taking aerial photos.

  • Yazidi Advocate Reacts To ISIS Leader's Death

    NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Hadi Pir, vice president of a Yazidi advocacy organization, about how the minority group targeted by ISIS feels about the death of its leader.

  • Harriet Tubman's 'Visions'

    Harriet, the biopic of Harriet Tubman is almost a superhero tale. Even her fainting spells — epileptic seizures, in reality — are depicted as a way for her to communicate with God.
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    Sunday Puzzle: The 3 B's

    Listener Alec Sloane of Oakland, Calif., plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.