Like all of you, we are still trying to make sense of Wednesday, January 6, 2021. Because even after the past four years, there are …
Listen Up! The Last Four Years
The Trump administration is coming to a close, but which elements of the Trump era are here to stay? We spoke to NPR’s White House …
Listen Up! Stepping Out Of The Shadow Of ‘Killer King’
For decades, residents of Compton and Watts in South Los Angeles had to rely on one particularly troubled hospital for their medical care. A new …
Listen Up! Who’s ‘Black Enough’ For Reparations?
Black History Month is here, which means we’re diving into big, sticky questions about what exactly it means to be Black. So this week on …
Listen Up! Becoming ‘Black Moses’
Marcus Garvey was an immigrant, a firebrand, a businessman. He was viewed with deep suspicion by the civil rights establishment. He would also become one …
Listen Up! Black Kiss-tory
Too often, Black history is portrayed as a story of struggle and suffering, completely devoid of joy. So we called up some romance novelists whose …
Listen Up! A Shot In The Dark
As the rollout of coronavirus vaccines unfolds, one big challenge for public health officials has been the skepticism many Black people have toward the vaccine. …
Listen Up! David (Pronounced dah-VEED) Versus Goliath
Summer, 2004. The Olympics in Athens. The event? Men’s basketball: U.S. versus Puerto Rico. And the whole world knows that Puerto Rico doesn’t stand a …
Listen Up! ‘Payback’s A B****’
We’re ending Black history month where we started it…talking about reparations. On this episode, we’re joined by Erika Alexander and Whitney Dow, who have spent …
Listen Up! Saving A Language You’re Learning To Speak
Every two weeks, a language dies with its last speaker. That was almost the fate of the Hawaiian language — until a group of young …