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'Brain desirable,' Part 1

Documents collected by Ales Hrdlicka, an anthropologist who collected tens of thousands of human remains for the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, are photographed at the Smithsonian Museum Support Center in Silver Hill, Md. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)

The brain of a Sami woman who died at a Seattle sanitarium in 1933. The cerebellum of an indigenous Filipino who died at the 1904 World’s Fair. These are just two of the brains collected, seemingly without consent, by the
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D.C. Sanctuary City: A podcast on the humanitarian crisis with migrants being bussed across the country

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser declared an ongoing humanitarian crisis after busloads of migrants were dropped off at district borders this summer.

The District’s mayor called for a welcome consistent with city values in being a ‘Sanctuary City.’

Listen to the story of a new migrant, advocates, and how D.C. is meeting the challenge.

This podcast was reported and produced by the graduate broadcast journalism students of American University’s School of Communication: Alexandra Rivera, Solene Guarinos

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