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This program was recorded on February 19, 2016.
Who we are and where we come from is a crucial question that now we are more able to answer than e...
- Added: Feb 16, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Originally Broadcast: February 13, 2012
The exodus of approximately six million black people from the American South between 1915 and 1970 had a s...
- Added: Feb 09, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
Few words in the English language have caused so much pain, hurt and emotion as the N-word. It is...
- Added: Jun 16, 2021
- Length: 29:00
African American Writers: Portraits and Visions
The voice of a writer can be heard in words, and sometimes seen in the writer’s face. It is unusua...
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Few words in the English language have caused so much pain, hurt and emotion as the N-word. It is arguably the most consequential social insult in ...
- Added: Mar 17, 2021
- Length: 29:00
In part 2 of our conversation with Pulitzer Prize winner, Isabel Wilkerson, author of “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great ...
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 29:00
In the years between 1915 and 1970 almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to northern and western cities seeking freedo...
- Added: Mar 04, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Recorded at Decca Studios late one night into the early morning hours in 1947, three Chicago musicians reminisced their former times in early 20th ...
- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 01:52:28
On September 29 of 2018 the Blues world lost one of it’s Iconic artists of the West-side Chicago Blues sound Otis Rush. Although he had not perform...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 59:32
The transcendent experience of street basketball is the topic of two conversations with Onaje X. O. Woodbine, author of Black Gods of the Asphalt: ...
- Added: Feb 26, 2019
- Length: 29:00
