Tonya Mosley

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Something has shifted in my conversations with friends lately.

We still talk about work and our kids, but more and more we also talk about our parents, whether it's safe for them to keep living alone, who's taking them to the doctor, how much help they really need, and who's going to pay for it.

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Today, Spanish filmmakers Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi.

They've turned an unfinished play by a gay poet murdered during Spain's civil war into a sweeping epic.

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The gay poet Federico Garcia Lorca began a play about that cruelty.

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There's a familiar line in writer David Treuer's new book that sounds almost like a warning.

"The call is coming from inside the house." He's talking about America and this belief that the violence we associate with our country's past isn't simply behind us.

Our guest today is writer David Treuer.

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Mosley.When the mountain was high, I still believed.

When the valley was low, it didn't stop me.

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A hit man drives across Houston with his newborn in the backseat, searching for breast milk.

His wife has just died, and nothing in his line of work has prepared him to keep their three children safe without her.

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I'm Tonya Mosley, and my guest today is Mahershala Ali.

His new film is Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother, in which he plays Latif, a devout Muslim father of three who is also a professional killer, suddenly left to care for his children after his wife dies.

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For nearly three decades, my guest today, journalist April Ryan, has reported from the White House briefing room, covering five presidents, from Bill Clinton to Donald Trump.

She spent most of those years at American Urban Radio Networks, a Black-owned national network.