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Yolanda Sangweni

Yolanda Sangweni

Verified

VP, Content, NPR

New York

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Prison Health , Epidemics, Sexual Health, HIV , Dietary Supplements, Hepatitis C , Public Health

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Total articles 252

  • When Things Fall Apart : Throughline

    By Rund Abdelfatah Verified, Ramtin Arablouei Verified, Julie Caine Verified, Casey Miner Verified, Devin Katayama Verified, Lawrence Wu Verified, Cristina Kim Verified, Anya Steinberg, Irene Noguchi Verified, Yolanda Sangweni, Olivia Chilkoti, Yordanos Tesfazion|NPRVerifiedClimate disaster, political unrest, random violence: Western society can often feel like what the filmmaker Werner Herzog calls "a thin layer of ice on top of an ocean of chaos and darkness." But is that actually true — or the way it has to be? Today on the show, what really happens when things fall apart. This episode originally published in 2023.

    By Rund Abdelfatah Verified, Ramtin Arablouei Verified, Julie Caine Verified, Casey Miner Verified, Devin Katayama Verified, Lawrence Wu Verified, Cristina Kim Verified, Anya Steinberg, Irene Noguchi Verified, Yolanda Sangweni, Olivia Chilkoti, Yordanos Tesfazion · NPR

    Apr. 10, 2025

  • The Whiteness Myth (Throwback) : Throughline

    By Rund Abdelfatah Verified, Ramtin Arablouei Verified, Julie Caine Verified, Casey Miner Verified, Devin Katayama Verified, Lawrence Wu Verified, Cristina Kim Verified, Anya Steinberg, Yolanda Sangweni, Olivia Chilkoti, Yordanos Tesfazion|Flipboard6 days agoAs Narendra Modi vies for a third straight term, an appraisal of the damage wrought by his Hindu-nationalist project—and the effort by ordinary Indians to reëmbrace the country’s founding ideals. My father died in April of last year. He was seventy-three years old, almost the same age as the Indian …

    By Rund Abdelfatah Verified, Ramtin Arablouei Verified, Julie Caine Verified, Casey Miner Verified, Devin Katayama Verified, Lawrence Wu Verified, Cristina Kim Verified, Anya Steinberg, Yolanda Sangweni, Olivia Chilkoti, Yordanos Tesfazion · 0

    Jun. 06, 2024

  • When Things Fall Apart : Throughline

    By Rund Abdelfatah Verified, Ramtin Arablouei Verified, Julie Caine Verified, Casey Miner Verified, Devin Katayama Verified, Lawrence Wu Verified, Cristina Kim Verified, Anya Steinberg, Irene Noguchi Verified, Yolanda Sangweni, Olivia Chilkoti, Yordanos Tesfazion|NPRVerifiedClimate disaster, political unrest, random violence: Western society can often feel like what the filmmaker Werner Herzog calls "a thin layer of ice on top of an ocean of chaos and darkness." But is that actually true — or the way it has to be? Today on the show, what really happens when things fall apart. This episode originally published in 2023.

    By Rund Abdelfatah Verified, Ramtin Arablouei Verified, Julie Caine Verified, Casey Miner Verified, Devin Katayama Verified, Lawrence Wu Verified, Cristina Kim Verified, Anya Steinberg, Irene Noguchi Verified, Yolanda Sangweni, Olivia Chilkoti, Yordanos Tesfazion · NPR

    Apr. 10, 2025

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