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The Diary of Afong Moy | The History of White People in America, Episode 4

Acclaimed poet Sally Wen Mao narrates the animated history of Afong Moy, America’s first recorded Chinese woman. She was brought to America by merchants and was exhibited as a circus oddity in 1830s New York City. She was eventually managed and exploited by circus showman P.T. Barnum as a sideshow attraction.
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BACKSIDE: The Unseen Hands of Horse Racing - S27 E10

Go behind the hidden “backside” of Churchill Downs as grooms rise before dawn to care for some of the most prized Kentucky Derby racehorses.

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Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution - S27 E1

Explore Phil Sharp's rise from a rural Kentucky farm boy who battled dyslexia to a Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Sharp's RNA discovery transformed biology and launched the biotechnology revolution. Narrated by Mark Ruffalo with insights from Walter Isaacson.

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The town of Natchez, Mississippi, confronts the tension between preservation and truth as it wrestles with race, memory and identity.

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