Uncovering the History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
A new book combines memoir, graphic novel, and history to tell the story of one woman’s quest to uncover the truth about female-led slave revolts. Dr. Rebecca Hall is both the subject and the author of...
View Article'The Kids,' Pulitzer Prize-Winning 'Wilmington's Lie,' 'Wake,' 'Bitchin': The...
Eddie Martin's new documentary “The Kids” looks back on one of the most iconic films of the 90s, Larry Clark’s “Kids." Co-producer, writer of the film, and one of “Kids” original subjects Hamilton...
View ArticleTouring America's Monuments to Slavery
Clint Smith, staff writer at The Atlantic, award-winning poet, and author of How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Little, Brown and Company June 1, 2021),...
View ArticleClint Smith Went To A Juneteenth Re-Enactment And This Is What He Saw
On June 19th, 1865, federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to ensure that all enslaved people were freed, ushering in the end of slavery. This week, Congress made it a national holiday.On Today's...
View ArticleWriter Elizabeth Alexander Asks What It Means To Envision Black Freedom
On June 19th, 1865, federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to ensure that all enslaved people were freed, ushering in the end of slavery. Now, Congress has made it a holiday.On Today's...
View ArticleIntelligence Squared US: Is It Time For Slavery Reparations?
Between 1525 and 1866, more than 12 million Africans were shipped to the New World as slaves. After some 200 years, slavery was abolished, and yet another century of Jim Crow, coupled with...
View ArticleJuneteenth, the Newest Federal Holiday
Texas native Annette Gordon-Reed, a Harvard University professor and the author of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W.W. Norton & Company, 2008), talks about her new book, On...
View ArticleTo Rethink the Constitution
The Constitution, first drafted in 1787, stands as the supreme law of the land in the U.S. But Mary Anne Franks — a law professor at the University of Miami who grew up attending a fundamentalist...
View ArticleJamaica's Quest for Reparations from Britain
Selwyn R. Cudjoe, professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College and an expert in Caribbean literature and Caribbean intellectual history, discusses the reports that Jamaica plans to petition...
View ArticleLatest on the Move Back to Homeless Shelters; Jamaica Wants Reparations; Ask...
On today's show:The city was in the midst of moving homeless people from hotels and into shelters, where the conditions are crowded, and COVID is a bigger risk, when a judge blocked the city's plan....
View ArticleIs Rest Possible for Black Bodies Past Death?
The Atlantic magazine’s Inheritance project takes a look at American history, black life and the resilience of memory. In the the chapter entitled “What the Body Holds,” journalist Latria Graham talks...
View ArticleKara Walker Talks with Thelma Golden
Kara Walker is one of our most influential living artists. Walker won a MacArthur Fellowship (the “genius” grant) before she turned thirty, and became well known for her silhouettes, works constructed...
View Article[Unedited] Pádraig Ó Tuama and Marilyn Nelson with Krista Tippett
Where to turn to find my place of standing when it feels like the world is on fire? This question surfaced in a public conversation Krista had just a couple of years ago with Pádraig Ó Tuama and...
View Article[Unedited] Bryan Stevenson with Krista Tippett
How to embrace what’s right and corrective, redemptive and restorative — and an insistence that each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve done — these are gifts Bryan Stevenson offers with his...
View ArticleNikole Hannah-Jones: Pushback to the 1619 Project Shows It's Necessary
The New York Times' 1619 Project is now a book with expanded essays. Its centering of slavery in the American history narrative has generated controversy.On Today's Show:Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer...
View ArticleNikole Hannah-Jones on American History
Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter covering racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine, creator of the 1619 Project, now a book, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (One...
View Article'The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story'
The 1619 Project from The New York Times was first published in 2019, four hundred years after the first slave ship landed on the shores of the United States. The project aims to create a new framework...
View ArticleAn Expanded '1619 Project,' BLM History for Young Readers, CRT in Schools, An...
The 1619 Project from The New York Times was first published in 2019, four hundred years after the first slave ship landed on the shores of the United States. The project aims to create a new framework...
View ArticleThe Story of The Last Slave Ship in the U.S with its Discoverer Ben Raines
The Clotilda was the last known ship to carry enslaved people from Africa to the United States, landing near Mobile, Alabama, in 1860. For decades, the location of its remains were a mystery, until...
View ArticleMaking Sense Of War Crimes Committed By Loved Ones
When propaganda shapes our worldview, it makes it easier to commit atrocities under false pretenses.On Today's Show:Last week in a video addressed to the Russian people, former California Governor...
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