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'This Is Our Dream': A Crowdsourced Poem To Inspire Hope

NPR poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander's latest community poem started with a request to consider what follows after the words "I dream a world."

News Brief: Extremist Threats, Economic Slowdown, GameStop Stock Surge

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News Brief: Extremist Threats, Economic Slowdown, GameStop Stock Surge

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Families Separated At Border Hope Biden Reunites Them, Bringing Deported Parents Back

The Rio Grande as seen from the Gateway International Bridge in Matamoros, Mexico in 2019. A mother and her four daughters from Honduras crossed the river nearly three years ago to seek asylum. The daughters were released from a federally-funded shelter and placed with their father in Virginia. Their mother is currently in a shelter in Honduras. Veronica G. Cardenas/AP hide caption

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Families Separated At Border Hope Biden Reunites Them, Bringing Deported Parents Back

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Families Separated At Border Hope Biden Reunites Them, Bringing Deported Parents Back

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Aleutian Legendary Skies

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Trump Loyalists Still Have A Strong Hold On The Republican Party

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Mittens Memes Of Bernie Sanders Raise Money For Vermont Charities

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Oregon Health Care Workers Vaccinate Stranded Motorists

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Hottest Stock On Wall Street: Struggling Video Game Store GameStop

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Hottest Stock On Wall Street: Struggling Video Game Store GameStop

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Arts & Life

'This Is Our Dream': A Crowdsourced Poem To Inspire Hope

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'This Is Our Dream': A Crowdsourced Poem To Inspire Hope

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Father Bird, Mother Bird Khruangbin

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Biden To Sign 2 Executive Actions Related To Health Care

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Biden To Sign 2 Executive Actions Related To Health Care

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Senate Panel To Hear From Biden's HUD Nominee Rep. Marcia Fudge

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Senate Panel To Hear From Biden's HUD Nominee Rep. Marcia Fudge

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Massachusetts' Medical Workers Will Get Vaccine Before Elderly Population

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Massachusetts' Medical Workers Will Get Vaccine Before Elderly Population

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Indigo of the Kings Guilty Ghosts

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Violent Rhetoric Grew More Mainstream In Conservative, Intellectual Circles

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France Will Likely Be Put Under A 3rd Nationwide Lockdown

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France Will Likely Be Put Under A 3rd Nationwide Lockdown

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Oceanica The Best Pessimist

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6619 Days of Waiting The Best Pessimist

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Yoake No Uta Eastern Youth

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National Security

DHS Warns Of Heightened Threats From Violent Domestic Extremists

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DHS Warns Of Heightened Threats From Violent Domestic Extremists

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A Wyoming County Predicts 'Total Economic Devastation' From Biden Leasing Ban

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A Wyoming County Predicts 'Total Economic Devastation' From Biden Leasing Ban

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A Wyoming County Predicts 'Total Economic Devastation' From Biden Leasing Ban

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Beards of the Patriarchs Followed By Ghosts

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Animals

Michigan Firefighters Set Out To Rescue Goose Stranded On River

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Cher Aims To Get Gorilla Released After 30 Years In Thai Zoo

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Cher Aims To Get Gorilla Released After 30 Years In Thai Zoo

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Believe - (Instrumental Version - Synth) [In the Style of Cher] The Versionarys

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As COVID-19 Cases Appear To Plateau, Fauci Warns Of More Deaths

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Many Seafarers Are Stranded Aboard Ships Because Of The Coronavirus

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Many Seafarers Are Stranded Aboard Ships Because Of The Coronavirus

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News Brief: Extremist Threats, Economic Slowdown, GameStop Stock Surge

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Families Separated At Border Hope Biden Reunites Them, Bringing Deported Parents Back

Trump Loyalists Still Have A Strong Hold On The Republican Party

Mittens Memes Of Bernie Sanders Raise Money For Vermont Charities

Oregon Health Care Workers Vaccinate Stranded Motorists

Hottest Stock On Wall Street: Struggling Video Game Store GameStop

'This Is Our Dream': A Crowdsourced Poem To Inspire Hope

Biden To Sign 2 Executive Actions Related To Health Care

Senate Panel To Hear From Biden's HUD Nominee Rep. Marcia Fudge

Massachusetts' Medical Workers Will Get Vaccine Before Elderly Population

Violent Rhetoric Grew More Mainstream In Conservative, Intellectual Circles

France Will Likely Be Put Under A 3rd Nationwide Lockdown

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DHS Warns Of Heightened Threats From Violent Domestic Extremists

A Wyoming County Predicts 'Total Economic Devastation' From Biden Leasing Ban

Michigan Firefighters Set Out To Rescue Goose Stranded On River

Cher Aims To Get Gorilla Released After 30 Years In Thai Zoo

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As COVID-19 Cases Appear To Plateau, Fauci Warns Of More Deaths

Many Seafarers Are Stranded Aboard Ships Because Of The Coronavirus

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