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In this third episode about Harlem’s history, we focus on the cultural and intellectual movement that began in the 1920s: the Harlem Renaissance. It was called the New Negro Movement at the time, and was seen as the rebirth of African American arts in this northern neighbourhood of New York City.

Sarah Lefevre reports from Harlem.

Throughout the 20th century, Harlem was seen as an insalubrious neighbourhood where poor black people lived.

During the 19th century Harlem was home to mainly white immigrant communities.

In the second episode in our five-part series on Harlem, reporter Sarah Lefevre charts the changes in Harlem’s racial mix.

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Harlem in New York has long been a cultural Mecca for African-Americans.

In the 20th century it was considered by many as a crime hub afflicted by gang violence.

Today it's firmly on the tourist trail, and property prices have rocketed.

For the first episode in our 5-part series reporter Sarah Lefevre meets Karen Taborn, an ethnomusicologist, jazz musician and the author of Walking Harlem.

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India's general elections is on-going until 19 May.

The sub-continent’s political parties display low “intra-party democracy” because policy decisions are routinely made by a small group of party elites.

More importantly, party tickets are typically distributed, or even sold, by these elites in the absence of a functioning democratic process within the party.

As a result, many candidates from the major political parties view contesting elections as an investment rather than a sunken cost.

They also tend to bankroll the parties in the campaign period.

In this second report from a two-part series on the power of money power in India’s elections, correspondent Murali Krishnan explains why a fundamental change in electoral laws is desperately needed.

Elections in India have become a money sport. Unchecked money power has driven political campaigns ahead of the general elections which start today.

With no cap on the amount of money a political party can spend, aggressive displays of wealth, from cash handouts to alcohol distribution are on offer.

While money plays a key role in most elections around the world, the particular reliance of Indian parties on candidates with great personal wealth is quite a unique phenomenon.

Correspondent Murali Krishnan examines how money matters in these elections in a two-part series.

Human rights organizations in Kenya’s coastal region have raised the alarm over rising numbers of child abuse cases.

They have condemned the police and judiciary for failing to resolve the crimes on time, thus denying the victims justice.

According to the Haki Yetu organization, which deals with children’s rights in the region, rights workers have noted a very high number of child abuse cases. It has been a challenge for the Kenyan courts to contend with such an increase in cases involving children.

Correspondent Joseph Jira reports from Mombasa.

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Last month, Tunis hosted the second edition of the Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival, the first event of its kind in the Arab world and a militant initiative to promote Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans-sexual rights in Tunisia where homosexuality remains illegal.

Alessandra Bajec reports on a joyous celebration of minority rights.

In 2014, 55 percent of Scottish voters rejected independence and chose to stay part of the United Kingdom – one of the main reasons: Scotland would have automatically lost its membership of the European Union if it became a sovereign nation. Two years later, in a wicked plot twist, 62 percent of Scotland-based voters rejected Brexit but the UK as a whole voted to leave.

As we approach the first of the new deadline dates for Brexit, Assa Samaké-Roman reports from north of the border.

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James Carrington made history in 1979 when he and other inmates at the Powhatan Correctional Center in Virginia, US recorded the first album in prison.

James and his fellow inmates had created an R&B group called Edge of Daybreak and their disk, Eyes of Love, was recorded in one take! Because it had to be!

The band members were all inmates, incarcerated for everything from armed robbery and assault, with sentences ranging from six to 60 years.

Thematically, the collection is about a group of guys making the best of a tough situation.

After 30 years, James was released, and now runs his own music story in Petersburgh, Virginia.

Colm Flynn tells the amazin gstory of James Carrington.

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Does anti-matter matter? If you put that question to the average physicist, the answer would be a resounding "yes"!

But what, exactly, is anti-matter?

Well, it's the opposite of matter, the stuff everything else is made of. Does that help?

There is more matter than anti-matter in the known Universe, and that's just as well.

Because if there were equal amounts of the two, they would annihilate one another, and we'd all be gone in a cosmic flash. Clear?

So we can't see it, but we know it's there. Are you getting the picture?

Dhananjay Khadilkar tries to explain the mysteries of anti-matter.

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