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Can I Just Tell You?
11:07 am
Wed May 8, 2013

Suicide Rates Hit Home For Michel Martin

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Originally published on Thu May 9, 2013 7:37 am

Today, I am thinking about how many times I have interviewed someone about some story or another, and that person has said to me, "I always heard about this or that thing on the news, but I never thought this would happen to me."

Well, three years ago tomorrow, the person saying that was me.

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News
11:03 am
Wed May 8, 2013

The Missing Women Were Seemingly In Plain Sight

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Originally published on Wed May 8, 2013 11:42 am

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:

This is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I'm Michel Martin. Coming up, we are going to talk about some controversies in hip hop recently that raise questions about just what crosses the line now between what's acceptable and what isn't and who decides that. That's coming up later in the program.

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Pop Culture
11:03 am
Wed May 8, 2013

Was Rapper Danny Brown Sexually Assaulted?

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Originally published on Wed May 8, 2013 11:42 am

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:

I'm Michel Martin, and this is TELL ME MORE, from NPR News. Coming up, as we approach Mother's Day this Sunday, we're checking out a new book. It's called "What My Mother Gave Me." It's about the special gift mothers give their daughters. That's just ahead.

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Code Switch
10:53 am
Wed May 8, 2013

USC Students Allege Racial Profiling By LAPD

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Mark Jones, a USC freshman, protests on Monday.
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Nathan Howard was the student who threw the college party that LAPD sent more than 70 police officers in riot gear to break up.
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Teremy Jackson, a sophomore at USC who was at the party, speaks to reporters at an on-campus protest on Monday.
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Originally published on Thu May 9, 2013 10:43 am

The Los Angeles Police Department is under scrutiny again. This time it's for sending almost 80 officers to break up a college house party. Most of the partygoers were African-American students from the University of Southern California.

USC senior Nate Howard organized the party that was shut down by the police. At a protest on campus Monday he condemned the response.

"Seventy-plus officers?" he said. "What else was going on at that time in the community that you needed to be at a party of students getting ready to graduate?"

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Europe
10:37 am
Wed May 8, 2013

In France, A Renewed Push To Return Art Looted By Nazis

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A photo taken by the Nazis during World War II shows a room filled with stolen art at the Jeu de Paume museum in Paris. Using improved technology and the Internet, the French government is making a renewed push to track down the rightful owners of art looted by the Nazis.
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American Thomas Selldorff and Austrian art historian Sophie Lillie, who helped him identify the paintings, pose for the media during a ceremony at the Culture Ministry in Paris on March 19 to return paintings taken from their Jewish owners during World War II. Selldorff, 82, was a young boy when the Nazis took the paintings from his grandfather.
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Originally published on Wed May 8, 2013 8:55 pm

During World War II, the Nazis plundered tens of thousands of works of art from the private collections of European Jews, many living in France. About 75 percent of the artwork that came back to France from Germany at the end of the war has been returned to their rightful owners.

But there are still approximately 2,000 art objects that remain unclaimed. The French government has now begun one of its most extensive efforts ever to find the heirs and return the art.

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