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Listen Up! Keep Your Friends Closer
As part of our Ask Code Switch series, we’re tackling your toughest questions about race and friendship. We help our listeners understand how race and …
Global Liberation: Freed from Belarus jails, protesters recountbeatings
Hundreds of people released from custody after a violent crackdown on protests in Belarus are sharing their accounts of harsh treatment at the hands of …
Listen Up:: Katrina, 15 Years Later
It’s hurricane season, so this week, we’re bringing you a bonus episode, from the Atlantic’s Floodlines podcast. On this episode, “Through the Looking Glass,” host …
Listen Up:Episode 2: The Economy That Slavery Built
The institution of slavery turned a poor, fledgling nation into a financial powerhouse, and the cotton plantation was America’s first big business. Behind the system, …
Listen Up:Episode 1: The Fight for a True Democracy
America was founded on the ideal of democracy. Black people fought to make it one.“1619” is a New York Times audio series hosted by Nikole …
Listen Up:Introducing ‘1619’
In August of 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia. America was not yet America, but this …
Listen Up:Episode 5: The Land of Our Fathers, Part 2
The Provosts, a family of sugar-cane farmers in Louisiana, had worked the same land for generations. When it became harder and harder to keep hold …
Listen Up:Episode 5: The Land of Our Fathers, Part 1
More than a century and a half after the promise of 40 acres and a mule, the story of black land ownership in America remains …
Listen Up:Episode 4: How the Bad Blood Started
Black Americans were denied access to doctors and hospitals for decades. From the shadows of this exclusion, they pushed to create the nation’s first federal …