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  • Listening to the news can feel like a journey. But 1A guides you beyond the headlines – and cuts through the noise. Let's get to the heart of the story, together – on 1A.

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  • Addressing Mental Health Across Cultures With The Creator of Brown Girl Therapy

    Addressing Mental Health Across Cultures With The Creator of Brown Girl Therapy
    May 30 2024
    For children of immigrants who are straddling two worlds, mental health can be a unique struggle.

    According to a 2020 study, children of immigrants had nearly double the rate of psychological distress than their immigrant parents. And this population is only growing, with one in four children in the U.S. currently being a child of immigrants, according to a survey by KFF and the LA Times.

    Therapy is bound by many Western ideas and rooted in whiteness. How to deal with the expectations, guilt, and dialogues of the bicultural experience can be a difficult road. That's where Sahaj Kaur Kohli comes in. She's the creator of Brown Girl Therapy, an online mental health space for children of immigrants and those in BIPOC communities.

    She's also the author of the new book, "But What Will People Say? Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures." In it, she writes about her own experiences while giving guidance and tools to others navigating their bicultural identity.

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    32 mins
  • Looking Back On 20 Years Of Same-Sex Marriage

    Looking Back On 20 Years Of Same-Sex Marriage
    May 29 2024
    In 2004 Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's Supreme Court found that their Constitution could no longer exclude same-sex couples from civil marriage rights.

    That watershed decision from Goodridge vs. Department of Health paved the way for LGBTQ+ rights across the country, which eventually saw same-sex marriage federally legalized in 2015. Since then, more than 700,000 same-sex couples have married across the country.

    But what prompted the fight for same-sex marriage in the first place? And where does the fight for equal rights under the law stand today?

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    32 mins
  • The Political Power Of Theater

    The Political Power Of Theater
    May 28 2024
    Between 1935 and 1939, thirty million Americans had the chance to see a play thanks to Federal Theater Project. Nearly a century later, the theater's place in American life is shrinking.

    Today, we look back on this one-of-kind federal project that believed in the power of theater, and we look forward to the role theater might play in upholding democracy even as the arts in America are being undermined.

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