The People’s Recorder: A Lost Cause?
This episode looks at communities that have suffered neglect from official history, and the example of African American landmarks and burial grounds in Virginia. Some families and communities have pushed…
The People’s Recorder: A New Kind of History
The Federal Writers’ Project set out to create a series of books that held up a mirror to America, and chronicled communities that had long been ignored. Howard University professor…
Vodou: Haiti’s African-Derived Religion
Religion for Breakfast
Imaginary Worlds: Sinners Gives Hoodoo Its Due
Sinners got a historic 16 Academy Award nominations, which was remarkable for a film with vampires. But the film is also a rich exploration of race, religion, culture and music…
The ladyes of Spayne
Candace Scarborough, Researcher and Dancer, shares what we know about the Ladies of Spain who served in Catherine of Aragon’s household
The Great Women Artists Podcast: Hilton Als on Jean Rhys
am so excited to say that my guest, returning for his second interview on the GWA Podcast, is the esteemed American writer, critic, and curator, Hilton Als… A staff writer…
Assata Shakur Speaks from Exile: Excerpts from an Interview by Sociologist Christian Parenti (Cuba, 1997)
Christian Parenti teaches sociology at the New College of California in San Francisco. What happens to old Black Panthers? Some wind up dead, like Huey P. Newton. Some join the…
A woman tells the history
of slavery in her family
Bleeding Kansas
Comedian Curtis Cook talks about John Brown
Written in the Waters
Tara Roberts