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Joan Baez Is Calculating How Much She Is Willing to Risk (Season 1, Episode 18)
Podcast Episode | 41 min | News
Legendary singer and activist Joan Baez still marches in protests; but she also performs in a circus, dances with drag queens and does whatever else she can to maintain a sense of joy and laughter. Baez has spent her career equally at home...See moreLegendary singer and activist Joan Baez still marches in protests; but she also performs in a circus, dances with drag queens and does whatever else she can to maintain a sense of joy and laughter. Baez has spent her career equally at home on the political front lines as behind a guitar. But as the world has changed, so has how she calculates risk. She thinks if she were to be arrested now - as opposed to 58 years ago - it would be "scary in a way that I was not scared back then." But, she tells Nicolle, "social change cannot happen until somebody's willing to take a risk." See less
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Sep 22, 2025 (United States)

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