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New Orleans storyteller Angela Davis talks with host Steve Curwood about rescuing people in the city during hurricane Katrina. She also tells us a Louisiana ghost story.

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Race, drugs and the changing face of the prison population

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University professor stages a 1969 Angela Davis civil-rights speech

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