[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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