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  • This Sunday on Prairie Public Presents: "Small Change" highlights the stories of five minority women-owned small business owners—Native, Black and Latina—and looks at the time and sweat equity it took to start the businesses, the critical pivots they made to keep their businesses afloat during the early months of the pandemic, and what they are doing now to keep their businesses running and growing.
  • This Sunday on Prairie Public Presents: A new episode of Why? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life. In this episode, host Jack Russell Weinstein explores "How To Think Like A Hindu" with guest Swami Sarvapriyananda.
  • This Sunday on Prairie Public Presents: Who are our mothers and how have they shaped our lives? We hear 10 people from around the world talk about their mothers ⁠— the good, the bad, and the messy ⁠— and who they are because of their mothers.
  • This Sunday on Prairie Public Presents: Spotlight on the Confusion of Covering Mental Health Care will help make sense of what kind of mental health care is supposed to be covered, and how health plans, regulators and you can make it easier to get the therapy you need.
  • This Sunday on Prairie Public Presents: “Spotlight on Virtual Mental Health Care” explores how mental health care’s urgent pivot to new technologies fared during the pandemic’s critical stress test.
  • This Sunday on Prairie Public Presents: A new episode of Why? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life. In this episode, host Jack Russell Weinstein answers listener questions.
  • This Sunday on Prairie Public Presents: In this new Humankind documentary by David Freudberg, we explore the history of courts set up to enforce the rule of law to protect innocent men, women and children. And we examine events around the founding of the ICC — considered a milestone for the rule of law, which incorporates the rights of women among other new protections for civilians.
  • This week on Prairie Public Presents, Connections looks at contemporary Muslim culture in America through the lens of our dynamic host, Mariam Sobh, a Muslim journalist and stand-up comedian. Included are fresh and surprising stories, from fashion to food to hip hop and opera, as we look at the myriad ways contemporary Muslim culture has mixed and melded with American culture.
  • This Sunday at 5pm, APM presents "Dating While Gray: Older Bodies and Brains in Love." Young adults don’t have exclusive rights to romance and sexual desire. But the brains and bodies of older people remain under-represented in narratives about love, so it’s easy to forget that intimacy doesn’t end after 50. While older people contend with all kinds of physical and mental changes, gray daters also are driven by spontaneous emotions and primal urges -- sometimes manifesting in behavior that proves no, we aren’t always old enough to know better.
  • Sunday at 5pm, WHY? host Jack Russell Weinstein chats with his guest Emily Lee about "What is a Model Minority?"