The Road South

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In Search of Black America: Discovering the African-American Dream

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This Magic Moment: My Journey of Faith, Friends and the Father's Love

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American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World

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Birmingham 1963: How a Photograph Rallied Civil Rights Support

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I Wish I Could: Younger & Older Women Trailblazers in Black American History

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The Real History of Juneteenth

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The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth

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Sweetsmoke

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Father James Page: An Enslaved Preacher's Climb to Freedom

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Three Years In Europe

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Gabriel's Story

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Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird

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Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education

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Hattiesburg: An American City In Black And White

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Andrew Jackson: Heroic Leader or Cold-hearted Ruler?

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Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad

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Boss of the Grips: The Life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal

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We Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel

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Fritz Pollard: Pioneer in Racial Advancement

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Selections from Ballads of a Cheechako

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A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War

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When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation

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The Underground Railroad to Mexico: The History and Legacy of the Southern Routes to Freedom for American Slaves

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Seeking Freedom: The Untold Story of Fortress Monroe and the Ending of Slavery in America

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American: Beyond Our Grandest Notions

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A Friend of Mr. Lincoln

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The North Star

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Rebels in Arms: Black Resistance and the Fight for Freedom in the Anglo-Atlantic

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Breaking the Chains: African American Slave Resistance

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Contending Forces

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Counting the Cost

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The Woman in Me

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Making It So: A Memoir

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Wishful Drinking

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On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft

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The Year of Magical Thinking

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Roxane Gay & Everand Originals: My Year of Psychedelics: Lessons on Better Living

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I'm Glad My Mom Died

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Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir

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Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear

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10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found a Self-Help That Actually Works--A True Story

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Finding Me: A Memoir

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Night: New translation by Marion Wiesel

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The Glass Castle: A Memoir

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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

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Bad Mormon

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How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

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Enough

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The Summer of Fall: Gravity is a bitch, but I'm still standing

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Love, Lucy

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You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir

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Pageboy: A Memoir

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Good Girls Don't

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Writing into the Wound: Understanding trauma, truth, and language

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People, Places, Things: My Human Landmarks

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Roxane Gay & Everand Originals: Built for This: The Quiet Strength of Powerlifting

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Love, Pamela: A Memoir of Prose, Poetry, and Truth

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Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape

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Not My Father's Son: A Memoir

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See You on the Way Down: Catch You on the Way Back Up!

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Joanna Levin, “Bohemia in America, 1858-1920” (Stanford UP, 2010): You’ve probably heard of hipsters. Heck, you may even be a hipster. If you don’t know what a hipster is, you might spend some time on this sometimes entertaining website. Where do hipsters come from? Let’s work backwards. Before hipsters (1990s),

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Harlem Queen - Historical Fiction Audio Drama: If you enjoy our slice of 1920s historical fiction, then you've got to check out this audio drama exploring the life and times of Madame Stephanie St. Clair.

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Episode 403: Seyward Darby

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Saida Grundy, "Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man" (U California Press, 2022): An interview with Saida Grundy

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Slavery by Another Name: The Crisis of Human Trafficking in the Black Community: In this week’s episode, we explore the misconceptions, disparities, and prevalence of human trafficking in communities of color from the lens of a survivor and advocate. Founder and Executive Director of Courtney’s House DC, Tina Frundt, talks...

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How Colson Whitehead Writes About Our ‘Big Wild Country’: “If he got a thrill out of transforming these ill-gotten goods into legit merchandise, a zap-charge in his blood like he’d plugged into a socket, he was in control of it and not the other way around,” writes Colson Whitehead in his new novel, “Harlem Shuffle.” “Dizzying and powerful as it was. Everyone had secret corners and alleys that no one else saw — what mattered were your major streets and boulevards, the stuff that showed up on other people’s maps of you.” Whitehead is the author of “The Underground Railroad,” which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and “The Nickel Boys,” which also won a Pulitzer, the first time two consecutive books by an author won. But he actually started “Harlem Shuffle” in between those two books. And now that he’s finished it, he can’t quite put it down. He’s working on a sequel, he told me. The first time he’s tried one. “Harlem Shuffle” is both a joyous and a troubled book. It

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Episode 76: Brutality: On slavery and Nat Turner, with Al Brophy.

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OBP’s Best Books of 2023 with Tananarive Due, Linda Villarosa, and Baynard Woods: On this episode of Our Body Politic, host Farai Chideya looks back on some of our favorite conversations with authors this past year. First we hear Farai’s conversation with author Linda Villarosa about her latest book “Under the Skin” and the dangers of medical racism. Then guest host Karen Grigsby Bates speaks with Baynard Woods, about his book “Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness.” We round out the show hearing Farai’s conversation with award-winning author Tananarive Due about her latest spooky book, “The Reformatory” and the true family story that inspired it.

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Presidential Historian Douglas Brinkley

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Isabel Wilkerson argues that 'Caste,' not racism caused The Great Migration

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ReLIT: American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson: We return Thursday, May 18th. Until then, please enjoy listening to the best shows from our archives. Here's one we love - it's like a new, sleeker James Bond. Who do you love? Who deserves your loyalty? And are the two one and the same? One young, b...

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MOTHER JONES AND THE BATTLE OF BLAIR MOUNTAIN W. VA (PT 1): 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

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Carolyn Kizer: Essential American Poets: Archival recordings of poet Carolyn Kizer, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded in 1958 and 1973 in Seattle, WA, and at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

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Season Four - Bayard Rustin: Bayard Rustin was a champion of the black civil rights movement—mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. But because he was gay and out, he faced bigotry inside and outside the movement. The FBI and Sen. Strom Thurmond tried to destroy him. But he persisted.

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The Klan and Reconstruction with Kidada Williams: The Reconstruction era is a pivotal point in our nation’s history and often misconstrued. What many hoped to be a time of promise and racial equality after the Civil war turned into a period marked by terror and violence against Black people and widespread efforts to undermine and stop Black progress. In her new book, “I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction,” Professor Kidada E. Williams of Wayne State University reexamines this period and shares the stories of those who fought against oppression. Williams joins WITHpod to discuss her new book and the impact of racial trauma on future generations.

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understanding comics by scott mccloud + season seven theme and reading list: we're diving into graphic content.

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Koritha Mitchell, “Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930” (University of Illinois Press, 2012): Koritha Mitchell‘s Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930 (University of Illinois Press, 2012) is, as described on the publisher’s webpage, “the first full-length critical study of lynching plays ...

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'The Second Coming of the KKK'

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Marcia Chatelain, "Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America" (Liveright, 2020): Chatelain examines the relationship between the fast-food industry, Black business owners, and the communities where they set up franchises after the Holy Week Uprisings of 1968...

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Ep. 304 Erasure by Percival Everett -- The Stacks Book Club (Zach Stafford)

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'20 And Odd. Negroes'

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Black Agenda Radio - 12.28.20: Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: hundreds of thousands of Americans have died from Covid-19, and the U.S. econom...

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Betty & Miles Davis

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Ava Chin, MOTT STREET: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming

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Indigenous Enslavement: Part 2 – w/ Christina Snyder: Understanding Indigenous enslavement expands our conception of slavery in what is now the United States. It spread across the entire continent and affected millions of people of different backgrounds. If we define slavery too narrowly, we can fail to...

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Elie Mystal!: Justice Correspondent for The Nation, Elie Mystal joins Zerlina to talk about the 'start' of the 118th Congress!

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Remembering Larry McMurtry and Chatting With Author Alexander Wolff

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Black Gotham: Origins of Gilded Age New York's Black Elite: A chat with esteemed author and scholar, Dr. Carla Peterson, about the growth of the prosperous black professional class in the 19th century up to the Gilded Age.  Dr. Peterson's work revealed a fascinating story that had up until then barely been told.

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Radical Empathy with Terri Givens: Structural racism has impacted the lives of Afric…

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Iran’s Growing Protests with Sussan Tahmasebi: Thousands of people continue to rally on the streets of Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, who was detained for not wearing her hijab “properly.” Sussan Tahmasebi is director of FEMENA, an organization that promotes gender equality and supports women human rights defenders, their organizations and feminist movements in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia regions. Tahmasebi has over 20 years of experience in promoting women's rights, peace and security at the regional, national and international levels. She joins Chris to discuss the precipitating factors for the sweeping protests in Iran, the structure of the Iranian political regime, fights for gender equality and more.