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After years of physical and mental abuse, Jade thought her kindly foster mother would be the answer to her prayers. She was wrong....
This is her staggering true story.
‘This must be what prison is like,’ I thought as another hour crawled by. In fact, prison would be better...at least you knew your sentence. You could tick off the days until you got out. In the Bad Room we had no idea how long we’d serve.
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Now a documentary narrated by Common, produced by Grant Hill, Dwyane Wade, and 9th Wonder, from filmmaker Mary Mazzio.
The moving true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago's West Side who form the first all-black high school rowing team in the nation and in doing so transform not only a sport but their lives.
Growing up on Chicago's West Side in the '90s, Arshay Cooper knows the harder side of life. The street corners are full of gangs; the hallways of his apartment complex are haunted by drug addicts he calls "zombies" with strung-out arms, clutching at him as he passes by. His mother is a recovering addict, and his three siblings all sleep in a one-room apartment, a small infantry against the war zone on the street below.
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Robert Bruce Shaw, Mark Smeby (Narrator), "All In: How Obsessive Leaders Achieve the Extraordinary"
Groundbreaking leaders share a passionate commitment to achieving their vision that borders and sometimes crosses the line into obsession. All In shows how obsession, if properly focused and managed, is both necessary and productive. Advances in any endeavor almost always depend on a small group of individuals who are completely consumed by the goal they’re pursuing. When these leaders and their teams are successful, everyone benefits from their singular focus and relentless drive.
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Amy Stanley, Joy Osmanski (Narrator), "Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World"
With Tsuneno as our guide, we experience the drama and excitement of Edo just prior to the arrival of American Commodore Perry’s fleet, which transformed Japan. During this pivotal moment in Japanese history, Tsuneno bounces from tenement to tenement, marries a masterless samurai, and eventually enters the service of a famous city magistrate. Tsuneno’s life provides a window into 19th-century Japanese culture - and a rare view of an extraordinary woman who sacrificed her family and her reputation to make a new life for herself, in defiance of social conventions.
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Michael Kearns, Aaron Roth, Teri Schnaubelt (Narrator), "The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design"
Over the course of a generation, algorithms have gone from mathematical abstractions to powerful mediators of daily life. Algorithms have made our lives more efficient, more entertaining, and, sometimes, better informed. At the same time, complex algorithms are increasingly violating the basic rights of individual citizens. Allegedly anonymized datasets routinely leak our most sensitive personal information; statistical models for everything from mortgages to college admissions reflect racial and gender bias. Meanwhile, users manipulate algorithms to "game" search engines, spam filters, online reviewing services, and navigation apps.
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John Dominic Crossan, Derek Perkins (Narrator), "How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian: Struggling with Divine Violence from Genesis Through Revelation"
Many portions of the New Testament introduce a compassionate Jesus who turns the other cheek, loves his enemies, and shows grace to all. But the Jesus we find in Revelation and some portions of the Gospels leads an army of angels bent on earthly destruction. Which is the true revelation of the Messiah - and how can both be in the same Bible?
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