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Submitted by Cliff Garibay on Thu, 09/29/2016 - 1:11pm
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"How to Raise a Black Son In America" (5 minutes)

As kids, we all get advice from parents and teachers that seems strange, even confusing. This was crystallized one night for a young Clint Smith, who was playing with water guns in a dark parking lot with his white friends. In a heartfelt piece, the poet paints the scene of his father's furious and fearful response.

"Ecosystems, War and Climate Change" (4.5 minutes)

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Submitted by Cliff Garibay on Thu, 09/29/2016 - 1:05pm
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"A Letter to All Who Have Lost in this Era" (17.5 minutes)

Summer, 2016: amid populist revolts, clashing resentments and fear, writer Anand Giridharadas doesn't give a talk but reads a letter. It's from those who have won in this era of change, to those who have, or feel, lost. It confesses to ignoring pain until it became anger. It chides an idealistic yet remote elite for its behind-closed-doors world-saving and airy, self-serving futurism — for at times worrying more about sending people to Mars than helping them on Earth. And it rejects the