The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation

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The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement

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Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America

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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965

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The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction

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White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America's Darkest Secret

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Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer

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Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy

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The Promise and the Dream

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American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress

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An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

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How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America

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Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War

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To Make Our World Anew: Volume II: A History of African Americans from 1880

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The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement

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The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation

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Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring

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Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America

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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

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Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction

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The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America

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The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker

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Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation

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The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction

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Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City

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Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, Part II - 1963-64

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The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition

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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

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Separate: The Story of Plessy V. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation

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The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry

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Tonight We Bombed The U.S. Capitol: The Explosive Story of M19, America's First Female Terrorist Group

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The Korean War: A History

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The Endurance

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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

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The Secret History of the World

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JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters

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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

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Demon Copperhead: A Novel

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The Book of Five Rings

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All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel

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Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World

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The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living

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Mary Magdalene: Women, the Church, and the Great Deception

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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

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Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

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The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The First Complete, Unexpurgated Text

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Razorblade Tears: A Novel

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Small Mercies: A Novel

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The Overstory

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

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The Restaurant: A History of Eating Out

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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

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The Story of Art Without Men

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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

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The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy with Robert P. Jones

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Carol Anderson, "The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

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Dr. Allyson Hobbs of Stanford, on Racial Passing: Allyson Hobbs, an Assistant Professor in the Depa…

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Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump

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‘White Space, Black Hood’ with Sheryll Cashin: Residential segregation and unequal allocation of resources continues to play a profound role in areas of concentrated poverty, and conversely, high opportunity. Georgetown law professor Sheryll Cashin has spent decades studying housing and how geography is central to American inequality. In “White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality,” Cashin traces the history of anti-Black residential caste, which she says manifests in three forms: boundary maintenance, opportunity hoarding and stereotype-driven surveillance. She joins to unpack her findings and to share strategies for abolishing state-sanctioned practices that further perpetuate inequities.

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‘1619,’ Episode 5: The Land of Our Fathers, Part 1

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In the Footsteps of Others: Process Drama – w/ Lindsay Randall: Students learning about slavery often ask, “Why didn’t enslaved people just run away or revolt?” Lindsay Anne Randall offers a lesson in “Process Drama”—a method teachers can use to answer this question, build empathy and offer...

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The History of Whiteness and How We Teach About Race: Historian Ed Baptist provides context on the creation and enforcement of a U.S. racial binary that endures today, as well as Black resistance as a force for political change. And Aisha White urges educators to ask themselves, “What did you learn...

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Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

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167. The Economic Cost of Racism with Heather McGhee: In this episode, Sharon is joined by economic policy expert and author Heather McGhee.

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How the Word is Passed with Clint Smith: What we call history isn't a fixed thing; it's a narrative, contested and fought over, changing over time. Right now, the United States is in the midst of a massive historical battle over its own narrative, specifically the legacy of slavery and race in America. The backlash to that fight is spilling into public policy as Republican state legislatures push to regulate the way students are taught about the founding of our country. In Clint Smith's new book "How The Word is Passed", Smith studies our understanding of slavery through the stories we tell of it. He travelled to the cemeteries and plantations and prisons home to these stories to see up close how they reckon with - or fail to reckon with - their own relationship to our country's legacy.

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W.E.B. DuBois and The Wounded World w/ Chad L. Williams: In 1917, the most prominent spokesperson for African Americans, W.E.B. DuBois, shocked many when he threw his support behind enthusiastic and patriotic participation in World War I. He thought it was the key to expanding rights and treatment for African Americans. He was only to be later disappointed by the treatment of soldiers in France, the treatment of veterans when they came home, and the revision of history after the war to downplay accomplishments of African American soldiers. He struggled to write a book but could never come to terms with his own role in World War I and what came after. We discuss the life and legacy of the author and activist W.E.B. DuBois with Chad L. Williams, the Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Brandeis University.

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'I Am Debra Lee: A Memoir' recounts triumphs and challenges as the former CEO of BET

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Jarvis R. Givens, "Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching" (Harvard UP, 2021): An interview with Jarvis R. Givens

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Fugitive Pedagogy in Black Education: Jarvis Givens, assistant professor at Harvard, defines fugitive pedagogy and its powerful role in Black education.

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Ibram X. Kendi - "Four Hundred Souls"

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White Women: A Conversation w/ Author Saira Rao

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Edward E. Baptist, “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism” (Basic Books, 2014): An unflinching examination of the trauma, violence, opportunism, and vision that combined to create the empire for slavery that was the Old South, Ed Baptist‘s new book The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Basic ...

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‘The Invisible Child’ with Andrea Elliott: Life has been anything but easy for 20-year-old Dasani Coates. Named after the bottled water that signaled Brooklyn’s gentrification, her story has been featured in five front pages of the New York Times. Together with her siblings, Dasani has had to persevere in an environment riddled with stark inequality, hunger, violence, drug addiction and homelessness. She’s not alone. There’s nearly 1.38 million homeless schoolchildren in the United States. About one in 12 live in New York City. We often focus on the stories of children who “make it out” of tumultuous environments. But what about the ones who don’t? New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrea Elliot spent nearly a decade following Dasani and her family. Andrea joins to talk about her expanded coverage of the Coates’ family story, which is told in her new book, “Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope In An American City.”

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Black AF History

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Episode 8: Searching for Justice

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Raising White Kids: Jennifer Harvey: “Interrupting individual acts of racism.”

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ICYMI - Heather McGhee on "The Sum of Us"

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'When Crack Was King' chronicles the misunderstood history of the crack epidemic

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ICYMI - Salima Koroma on "Dreamland"

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Robyn C. Spencer, “The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender and the Black Panther Party in Oakland” (Duke UP, 2016): As the first substantive account of the birthplace of the Black Panther Party (BPP), Robyn C. Spencer’s The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender and the Black Panther Party in Oakland (Duke University Press,

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Ned Blackhawk on ‘The Rediscovery of America’: In this conversation first recorded for Washington Post Live on April 27, Yale University professor Ned Blackhawk discusses his new book, “The Rediscovery of America: Natives Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History,” which explores the foundational role Native Americans have played in U.S. history, including in the formulation of our country’s Constitution, and how their presence and contributions are frequently overlooked, or worse, erased.

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W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction in America: Dr. Gerald Horne joins Breht and to launch our new series on the life and work of W.E.B. Du Bois, the famous American sociologist, Marxist socialist, esteemed historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist, starting with his major work Black...

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How Critical Race Theory Went From Harvard Law To Fox News: Critical race theory is a legal framework developed decades ago. It's been the subject of heated debates for years. Why are those debates flaring up again now?

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One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race by Yaba Blay: Who's black?Who's white?And who cares? One researcher challenges us to re-examine our self-identity.She explores how historical definitions of race continue to shape contemporary racial identities and lived experiences.Through a series of interviews and ...