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Get ready for a no-holds-barred debate with four comedians duking it out over the most crucial pop culture wars. Who ruled the '90s—*NSYNC or Backstreet Boys? Team Britney or Team Christina? Was Nickelodeon the king, or did Disney Channel reign supreme? Whitney or Mariah—who owned the diva crown? Coke or Pepsi—pick your side. New episodes drop every Thursday wherever you get your Podcasts and on YouTube!

By 1970 racial tension was at a breaking point in the Southern town of Gallatin, Tennessee. Desegregation had emotions running high. The town was a powder keg ready to erupt. But it was also on the verge of something incredible. Eddie Sherlin and Bill Ligon were boys growing up on opposite sides of the tracks who shared a passion for basketball. They knew the barriers that divided them - some physical landmarks and some hidden in the heart - but those barriers melted away when the boys were on the court.

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Even today, it’s considered one of the most thrilling races in Olympic history. The hundred-meter sprint final at the 1924 Paris Games, featuring three of the world’s fastest swimmers—American legends Duke Kahanamoku and Johnny Weissmuller, and Japanese upstart Katsuo Takaishi—had the cultural impact of other milestone moments in Olympic history: Jesse Owens’s podiums in Berlin and John Carlos’s raised, black-gloved fist in Mexico City. Never before had an Olympic swimming final prominently featured athletes of different races, and never had it been broadcast live.

Every triumph has its trials. In every journey, one must learn how to navigate and overcome adversity. Those are the moments that make life meaningful. Truths and Triumphs highlights hometown heroes making an impact in their own circles. Together, we reveal their stories and what keeps them striving.

The World After Amazon is a collection of 9 short speculative stories, written by rank-and-file workers at the corporation that has transformed the way we read and so much more.Amazon's sci-fi propaganda tells the story of a company using cutting-edge technology to deliver a utopia of cheap consumer convenience. But its workers pay the price, toiling in dystopian conditions to create a future that will exclude them. What happens when those workers reclaim the radical imagination and their power to tell their own stories?The World After Amazon can be ordered in print or read or downloaded ...