44 – Black Chef, White House: African American Cooks in the President’s Kitchen
Cooking for the founding fathers — the story of Hercules and Hemings — the enslaved chefs of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. And an interview with Zephyr Wright, President Lydon Johnson's cook...
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Column: This little known site is the birthplace of the student civil rights...
Justin Reid, Moton Museum’s director of education and public programs, describes the events that led to the 1951 student walkout and strike. Photo courtesy by Jeff FeinsteinEditor’s Note: The location...
View ArticleNegroes and the Gun
Harriet Tubman will soon be gracing our twenty dollar bill. Most of us know only one image of her. It's an iconic image taken later in her life in which her hair's covered in a dark cloth and she has a...
View ArticleThe Underground Fight for Medical Care in Syria, Calvin Trillin on 50 Years...
The New Yorker's Ben Taub profiles London surgeon David Nott, who administers medical instructions via text message to those working in Syria’s secret underground hospitals. Winifred Gallagher reveals...
View ArticleCalvin Trillin Reports on 50 Years of Civil Rights
Longtime New Yorker staff writer and author Calvin Trillin got his start with the magazine in 1963 with an article about desegregation at the University of Georgia. He continued to cover the Civil...
View ArticleThe Fist and the '68 Olympics
The '68 Olympic games changed everything for John Carlos. Standing on the podium after winning the bronze in the 200 meters, he and fellow runner Tommie Smith raised their fists in the black power...
View ArticleWhy 1,300 Inmates Rioted at Attica Prison in 1971
Historian Heather Ann Thompson discusses her new book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy, a detailed account of the prison uprising when nearly 1,300 prisoners took...
View ArticleHarry Belafonte Talks to Jelani Cobb About Entertainment and Activism
We take for granted that popular entertainers can and should advocate for causes they believe in. But until Harry Belafonte pioneered that kind of activism in the middle of the last century, stars...
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For black Americans, era since civil rights movement brought success and...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Now to a preview of the second half of the PBS miniseries “Black America Since MLK,” and to Jeffrey Brown.JEFFREY BROWN: The series subtitle is “And...
View ArticleKenneth Clark Answers Questions on Plans for the Civil Rights Movement
It is 1967, and Clark has just returned from a "secret meeting" of Martin Luther King, Whitney Young, and other black leaders that was held in Suffern, New York. Reporters are anxious to learn what was...
View ArticleSouth Bronx Murder Rates, Paul Auster, Celebrating Bruce Lee
New York Times Reporter Ben Mueller joins us to discuss his ongoing “Murder in the 4-0” series, which looks at the life and death of each person murdered in the 40th Precinct in the South Bronx in...
View Article30 Years After PBS' Landmark Documentary, "Eyes on the Prize," Where Are We...
Director, producer and Professor and North Gate Chair in Journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Jon Else joins us to discuss his new book, True South: Henry Hampton and "Eyes on...
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Using Conversation to Tackle Civil Rights and Native Issues in Alaska
The Takeaway heads to Anchorage, Alaska for the latest installment of our series "Uncomfortable Truths: Exploring Racism in America." The state's most populous city contains large Alaska Native and...
View ArticleMonday Morning Politics; Disputing the Details for the NYPD Body Cams; Trump...
Coming up on today's show:Robert Costa, national political reporter at The Washington Post and moderator of Washington Week on PBS, talks about the latest in national political news and his new gig as...
View ArticleAn Unintended Consequence of the Civil Rights Movement
James Forman Jr., a clinical professor of law at Yale Law School, former D.C. public defender, and the author of Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux,...
View ArticleMemorial Day Weekend Special: Astrophysics of Us; A Consequence of Civil...
For today's show you'll hear a few of our past favorites:Neil DeGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist with the American Museum of Natural History, director of the Hayden Planetarium, host of the radio and TV...
View ArticleDissent: Catalyst or Threat?
The National Association of Manufacturers provides an unlikely forum for this 1970 debate between Ramsey Clark and William F. Buckley. CBS News commentator Eric Sevareid presides. The topic is "Dissent...
View ArticleHugh Mulzac: Captain, Victim, Survivor
In this 1943 edition of Great Americans, a program claiming to provide "authentic biographical sketches of outstanding Negroes in the American scene," Captain Hugh Mulzac is profiled…although elevated...
View ArticleHarry Belafonte Talks to Jelani Cobb About Entertainment and Activism
We take for granted that popular entertainers can and should advocate for causes they believe in. But until Harry Belafonte pioneered that kind of activism in the middle of the last century, stars...
View ArticleFighting Injustice From The Annals of History
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segmentOn February 1st, 1968, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, both sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee were crushed to death in the back of a trash...
View ArticleNew Book Challenges the Myths of Civil Rights History
Dr. Jeanne Theoharis discusses her book A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History. Theoharis has written a powerful alternate history of the Civil Rights...
View Article#NeverAgain and the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Last week, in a coordinated effort by many grassroots groups, a series of protests against gun violence took place in communities around the world. Jelani Cobb joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how...
View ArticleA Conversation With Martin Luther King Jr.'s Barber
A new book explores a dialogue between a close friend of Martin Luther King Jr., also his former barber, and a modern social justice and youth advocate. In the book, Nelson Malden and Kevin Shird...
View ArticleNew York City's Optimism and Resistance After Brown vs. Board
As a young girl, Linda Brown became the face of a landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision. The Brown vs. Board of Education ruling declared that separate schools for white and black children were unequal...
View ArticleThe Fight for Civil Rights, Then and Now
The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 50 years ago punctuated a decade of progress, built on generations of activism and defined by the many successes during the civil rights movement of the...
View ArticleNaomi Klein on Puerto Rico at a Crossroads, The Rikers Library, Elizabeth...
Naomi Klein discusses her story for The Intercept about the struggle between Puerto Rican activists and ultra-rich Puertopians from the U.S. mainland. Change-makers Sarah Ball, Louise Stamp and Emily...
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The Brian Lehrer Show Live
WNYC's Brian Lehrer leads the conversation about what matters most now in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives.Join us for a live broadcast of his Peabody Award-winning radio...
View Article'Travisville,' Hillary Clinton in Song, Michael Palin, NJ's Plastic Problem
William Jackson Harper talks about the play, “Travisville,” which he wrote. Barbara Kingsolver dissects her new novel, Unsheltered. Rebecca Pronsky presents her new production, “Hillary Clinton's Song...
View ArticleA New History of Civil Rights, Barbara Kingsolver's New Book, Hillary Clinton...
Actor William Jackson Harper joins us to discuss the play, “Travisville,” which he wrote. The play focuses on a Texas church community and its reckoning with the civil rights movement. It is now...
View ArticleMLK Commemorative March, 1965 Selma Voting Rights March, Claudia Rankine
Tom Grattan, a teacher at the Manhattan Country School, and two of his students, Elise Wilkey and Kellin Guzman, discuss the school’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative March. REBROADCAST:...
View Article'Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom,' Claudia Rankine
Lynda Blackmon Lowery joins us to discuss her book, Turning 15 on the Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March, which has been adapted into a play of the same...
View ArticleRemembering the First Civil Rights Era Sit-in in Alabama
On February 25th, 1960, in Montgomery, Alabama, a group of 35 black men and women took part in the first sit-in against segregation in the state.Comprised mostly of students from Alabama State College,...
View Article[Unedited] Vincent Harding with Krista Tippett
Vincent Harding was wise about how the vision of the civil rights movement might speak to 21st-century realities. He reminded us that the movement of the ‘50s and ‘60s was spiritually as well as...
View ArticleVincent Harding — Is America Possible?
Vincent Harding was wise about how the vision of the civil rights movement might speak to 21st-century realities. He reminded us that the movement of the ‘50s and ‘60s was spiritually as well as...
View Article[Unedited] Rev. Otis Moss III with Krista Tippett
An hour to sit with, and be filled. Two voices — one from the last century, one from ours — who inspire inward contemplation as an essential part of meeting the challenges in the world. Howard...
View ArticleRev. Otis Moss III — The Sound of the Genuine: Traversing 2020 with 'the...
An hour to sit with, and be filled. Two voices — one from the last century, one from ours — who inspire inward contemplation as an essential part of meeting the challenges in the world. Howard...
View ArticleRemembering Bob Moses
Over the weekend, civil rights leader Bob Moses died at the age of 86. Moses was instrumental in registering voters in Mississippi in the 1960s as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating...
View ArticleJelani Cobb on The Kerner Commission Report
Jelani Cobb, New Yorker writer and professor of journalism at Columbia University and the editor of The Essential Kerner Commission Report (Liveright, 2021), talks about his new edition of the 1968...
View ArticleA New First Amendment
Nearly six decades ago, the Supreme Court made a decision in the case New York Times v. Sullivan that would forever alter the way journalists practiced journalism. Brooke spoke with Andrew Cohen,...
View ArticleChristian McBride's 'The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons'
The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons is a full-length work for jazz orchestra composed by renowned bassist Christian McBride, honoring leaders of the civil rights movement....
View ArticleScottie Pippen, 'Ferguson Rises' Documentary, Musician Christian McBride,...
Six-time NBA Champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist Scottie Pippen joins us to discuss his new memoir with Michael Arkush, Unguarded. The book takes readers through Pippen’s childhood and his...
View ArticleIs New York Times v Sullivan on the Chopping Block?
Is New York Times v Sullivan on the Chopping Block?
View ArticleFighting to Remember Mississippi Burning
In June 1964, at the height of the civil-rights movement, the Ku Klux Klan burned a Black Methodist church to the ground in the town of Philadelphia, Mississippi, and murdered three civil-rights...
View Article198 - The Real Ambassadors: Dave Brubeck, Iola Brubeck, and Louis Armstrong
The story of The Real Ambassadors, a jazz musical created by Dave Brubeck and Iola Brubeck for Louis Armstrong in the 1950/60s. The original show, featured Louis Armstrong, Carmen McCrae, Dave Brubeck...
View ArticleYour Civil Rights Era Oral Histories
Listeners call in with their memories from the civil rights movement, and how it affected their lives.
View ArticleThe Civil Rights Movement's Unfinished Business
As callers continue to share their memories of the civil rights movement, Peniel Joseph, Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values, founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and...
View ArticleThe Girls of the Leesburg Stockade
On July 19, 1963, 30 Black girls were arrested while marching to protest segregation in Americus, Georgia. After spending a night in jail, they were transferred to the one-room Lee County Stockade and...
View ArticleBlack Chef, White House—African American Chefs in the President's Kitchen
A look at the President’s kitchen and some of the first cooks to feed the Founding Fathers—Hercules and James Hemings—the enslaved chefs of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Hercules, described...
View ArticleDr. Martin Luther King Jr. Tribute Concert Flyer
This episode looks at a momentous Carnegie Hall concert — the 1961 tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — and the roles that the Rat Pack and many other artists played in supporting Dr. King and his...
View ArticleOprah, Kamala, and The New Orleans Four
There was a moment at the 2024 Democratic National Convention when Oprah took the stage — and the crowd went wild. She spoke boldly about Kamala Harris and her place in a long line of strong Black...
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