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'This Is Our Dream': A Crowdsourced Poem To Inspire Hope

NPR poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander's latest community poem started with a request to consider what follows after the words "I dream a world."

In Paradise Eric Lau
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The Rio Grande as seen from the Gateway International Bridge in Matamoros, Mexico, in 2019. A mother and her four daughters from Honduras crossed the river nearly three years ago to seek asylum. The daughters were released from a federally funded shelter and placed with their father in Virginia. Their mother is in a shelter in Honduras. Veronica G. Cardenas/AP hide caption

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Families Separated At Border Hope Biden Reunites Them, Bringing Deported Parents Back

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Aleutian Legendary Skies
Rogue Wave Legendary Skies
True North You. May. Die. In. The. Desert
Sliding Doors U137
Pearl Lakes U137
Blue Line Swinger Yo La Tengo
Pass the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind Yo La Tengo
Father Bird, Mother Bird Khruangbin
Shades of Man Khruangbin
Indigo of the Kings Guilty Ghosts
All Flesh Is Grass Guilty Ghosts
Oceanica The Best Pessimist
6619 Days of Waiting The Best Pessimist
Yoake No Uta Eastern Youth
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A sign in the Jonah Field advertises cheap rates at a deserted motel built for oil and gas workers. Kirk Siegler/NPR hide caption

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A Wyoming County Predicts 'Total Economic Devastation' From Biden Leasing Ban

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Beards of the Patriarchs Followed By Ghosts
King, My Queen Followed By Ghosts
If I Could Turn Back Time Cher
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Believe - (Instrumental Version - Synth) [In the Style of Cher] The Versionarys
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The U.S. economy slowed sharply in the last three months of the year from the previous quarter as the pandemic made a resurgence and businesses had to close. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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U.S. Economy Slows Sharply As Pandemic Resurges

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