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Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham co-edited "Black Futures," a new book of stories, essays, and art by Black creators using the Black present to predict the Black future. We talked to them about it.

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"Britney Spears has been under her father's conservatorship since 2008," says Vox's Constance Grady.

"We know that every purchase Britney makes is something that her conservators have to discuss and approve, down to if she wants to download a song from iTunes."

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"The Trump administration is known for having an aggressive deregulatory approach. People joke that Trump doesn't have a climate policy. Well, he does and it's to undo every climate policy we have in place," says journalist Emily Atkin.

The Biden administration says they want to change that. How will they do it?

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All three of our 1A Movie Club panelists gave Steve McQueen's 'Mangrove' five stars. We talk about why.

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John Kerry joins the Biden administration. Millions travel for Thanksgiving despite COVID-19 concerns. The leaders of Israel and Saudi Arabia meet secretly. A soccer icon passes away.

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"Ballet is an exclusive art form. It is meant to be the finest of the fine, the most exquisite expression," says Virginia Johnson, artistic director of Dance Theatre of Harlem. "The issue is right now is who defines what's fine, and who defines what's best."

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Scientists have dreamed about the possibilities of custom-made messenger RNA (mRNA). mRNA technology is now driving the latest vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna. How do mRNA vaccines work? And we'll go back to high school biology to remind you what mRNA is, and what it does.

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We're breaking down the latest movies, music and television we love with writer Brooke Obie, NPR TV critic Eric Deggans and Vox's Emily VanDerWerff.

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"Because of the desire to avoid disclosure of information...people have been moving to these commercial messaging systems like Signal...this is really changing the way civil servants and government officials behave," says author Richard Ovendon.

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Over 250,000 people have died of COVID-19 in the United States. The acting Defense Secretary announces American troop withdrawals in Afghanistan and Iraq. We got to all that plus a lot more, as we covered the top stories from this week in the news.

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