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Artist, performer, and host Helga Davis brings a soulful curiosity and love of people to the podcast Helga.

Rubenstein speaks with historical thinkers, community members, and subject matter experts to explore American symbols’ shared history and meaning.

“The hip hop community has, from the start, been doing what the rest of media is only now catching up to.”

Discover the factors that led to the birth of hip hop and how it has evolved since its first hit in 1982.

Discover music icon Roberta Flack’s rise to stardom and her triumphs over racism and sexism.

She interviewed one of the last known survivors of the slave ship Clotilda, collected African folklore, and studied “hoodoo.”

Frederick Douglass went on to become many things – abolitionist, autobiographer, essayist, diplomat, orator, political theorist, editor, publisher and social reformer.