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episode 5615: Celebrating America's Black Working Class
In Black Folk, Award-winning historian Blair LM Kelley portrays generations of Black workers — Pullman porters, domestic laborers, USPS employees, COVID-19 essential workers — whose work has been vital to the nation's prosperity.
Ken Tucker reviews Janelle Monáe's new album, The Age of Pleasure.