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5:30
Morley
"Women of Hope"
8:55
Lemon Andersen
Please don't take my Air Jordans
5:04
Carvens Lissaint
"Put the financial aid in the bag"
12:15
Sarah Kay
How many lives can you live?
18:25
Sarah Kay
If I should have a daughter ...
5:53
Suheir Hammad
Poems of war, peace, women, power
12:58
Eve Ensler
Suddenly, my body
20:50
John Delaney
Wiring an interactive ocean
29:18
Natalie Merchant
Singing old poems to life
9:30
James Geary
Metaphorically speaking
23:04
Sophie Hunger
Songs of secrets and city lights
18:03
Emmanuel Jal
The music of a war child
5:37
Cynthia Schneider
The surprising spread of Idol TV
15:33
Golan Levin
Art that looks back at you
19:09
Elizabeth Gilbert
Your elusive creative genius
15:54
Ray Anderson
The business logic of sustainability
15:56
Helen Fisher
The brain in love
16:14
Chris Abani
On humanity
3:17
Rives
A story of mixed emoticons
17:36
Chris Abani
Telling stories from Africa
9:12
Rives
The 4 a.m. mystery
4:36
Nora York
Singing "What I Want"
4:07
Rives
If I controlled the Internet
4:37
Stew
"Black Men Ski"
4:11
Rives
A mockingbird remix of TED2006
3:03
Taylor Mali
What teachers make
59:34
Edwidge Danticat
Stories of Haiti
17:24
Felix Dennis
Odes to vice and consequences
23:17
C.K. Williams
Poetry of youth and age
17:36
John Wooden
The difference between winning and succeeding
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