An 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...
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Nikki Giovanni — Soul Food, Sex, and Space
In the 1960s, Nikki Giovanni was a revolutionary poet of the Black Arts Movement that nourished civil rights. She had a famous dialogue with James Baldwin in Paris in 1971. Now a professor at Virginia...
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 ArticleReflecting on the March on Washington
Editor's Note: This audio report contains strong language that many may find offensive. This week on The Takeaway, we're remembering the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington—a defining moment in...
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,...
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