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News

Marketplace

Week of March 22

Marketplace PM

• Kai talks to Dorothy Brown, Emory, about her new book “The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans – And How We Can Fix It.”

• March 24: Kai talks to Eric Vaughn, owner of Eric’s I’ve Been Framed Shop & Gallery in Detroit, MI for our series on running a micro-business in a pandemic economy.   

Marketplace Tech

• March 22: Artificial intelligence is supposed to make the most educated guesses, working with all the possible data to identify patterns and people and things. But what happens when the data and the code created by humans come with all of our human biases? Guest Joy Buolamwini researches bias in algorithms at the MIT Media Lab – her work is featured in a new PBS documentary called Coded Bias.

• March 24: A featured excerpt of The Uncertain Hour’s season finale, focusing on a day in the life of an Amazon Flex driver – who is not considered an Amazon employee.   

• March 25: Now that mRNA vaccine technology has proven effective at combating the coronavirus, where will the next leaps in mRNA research take us, and how are they getting funded? Guest: Andrew Hessel, president of Humane Genomics – a company developing artificial viruses that could become cancer therapies.   

On Point

Week of March 22

• From e-commerce to cloud services, voice platforms, finance and so much more, Amazon reaches into all spectrums of modern life. Meghna talks to monopoly critic Stacy Mitchell and anti-trust experts about our complicated relationship with Amazon and whether it’s a monopoly.

Classical

Performance Today

Throughout March, Performance Today is broadcasting significant works by female composers in honor of Women’s History Month. The winner of Performance Today’s Classical Woman of the Year Award will be announced on the March 29 program.

• March 25: Performance Today will air their first young artist of this season: Lauren Anker (horn) from Rice University in Houston, TX.

• In late March, Performance Today will highlight music for Passover & Easter.  

Arts and Culture

Time Machine from The Current

Time Machine from The Current is a sonic journey across music history. Each week, host Bill DeVille takes you back to the sounds of a specific year with a carefully curated list of the best songs. Plus, he’ll invite you to reexamine some deeper cuts as we look back on what happened that year in music, pop culture and the world.

March 26 – 1983:    

It was a big year for women with big debuts from both Madonna and Cindy Lauper. David Bowie became a superstar with the release of his Nile Rogers produced Let’s Dance effort, while his guitarist on the album, Stevie Ray Vaughan, released his debut Texas Flood. In the college rock world there were debuts from REM and Violent Femmes. UB40 helped popularize reggae with their cover’s album Labour of Love, and MTV had a huge influence on everything, with even TX elder statesman ZZ Top and electronic newcomers Eurythmics capitalizing. Lionel Richie recorded the feel-good song of the year and The Police released their final studio album.

Outside the world of music, Sally Ride became the first American woman to travel into space, Star Search debuted, hosted by Ed McMahan, Return of the Jedi ruled the box office and you may have killed time with your Rubik’s Cube.

The Splendid Table

As The Splendid Table continues to take listener home cooking questions, please follow the program’s updates on Twitter and encourage listeners to send in their questions as voice memos to contact@splendidtable.org, or via phone at 800-537-5252.  

Encore episode – March 26: Mexican food in America

• We talk and taste tortillas with tortilla maker Jorge Gavira of Masienda for the very the last word on what makes a tortilla great.

• We meet the people behind the Mitla Café, a Cal-Mex landmark that is a pillar of the Chicano community and was the inadvertent model for the uber chain, Taco Bell.

• Later, we meet Fany Gerson, a woman keeping the traditional Mexican sweet kitchen thriving. She is the chef-owner of La Newyorkina and author of Mexican Ice Cream and My Sweet Mexico.

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