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(1) Kekere means “small” in Yoruba. This animation music video deals with the sad theme of slavery, focusing on social memory. The script and songwriter Wagner Cinelli was inspired by the slavery period in Brazil, which lasted until 1888, and its harsh consequences up to the present day. (2) In Santo Stefano Quisquina, Sicily, during the solemn procession on Good Friday, ancient songs are sung in dialect, mostly dedicated to the Virgin Mary. These songs were likely to disappear, if not for some young people who wanted to keep the tradition alive.

Lin Weaver interviews Kim Stanley Robinson on his latest book: "The MInistry for the Future", a science-fiction novel about the incalculable tragedy of the warming of the planet Earth.

A virtual town hall streamed March 22, 2022 on insurance access and affordability featuring California State Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara.

Voices of Exploration: 100 Expeditions and Counting made by NOAA. 

Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, hosts a virtual town hall Feb. 15 on transportation challenges and solutions in the era of climate change featuring Toks Omishakin, the newly appointed secretary of the California State Transportation Agency.

The Royal Museum of Mariemont in Belgium holds an exhibit that visitors find particularly intriguing: a fragment of a colossal female statue. The director of the museum, Marie-Cécile Bruwier, launches a full-scale investigation into the mystery surrounding this piece. Where does it come from? Can it be dated? How did it get to Mariemont, and does it really represent Cleopatra? The research will take her to Alexandria in Egypt and will involve dozens of specialists. Will the enigmatic young woman of the statue give up all her secrets?