Anthony Walton is a poet, professor and the writer-in-residence at Bowdoin College, and he joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why gains in Black life have so often come with periods of reckoning, why racial trauma in this country so often repeats itself.
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Kidada E. Williams, a history professor at Wayne State University, tells the stories of people trying to rebuild their lives after slavery, and how for many, life was still extremely difficult in the years that followed.
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Matthew Delmont, a history professor at Dartmouth College, joins guest host John McCaa to discuss the Black leaders who shined a light on the racism at home after fighting fascism abroad.
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Producer/director Shayla Harris discusses the networks and towns built for Black people, and the community and safety they brought.
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Leonard Moore has taught Black history for more than 25 years, and he joins us to talk about asking students to consider uncomfortable questions about racism to move beyond words toward paths of reckoning and reconciliation.
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University of Texas at Austin history professor Daina Ramey Berry joins us to talk about rethinking our nation’s story to include the vital role black women have played in shaping America.
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UCLA sociologist Marcus Anthony Hunter joins us to talk about what black communities nationwide have in common – and about the many functions they serve.
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Allison Keyes joins us to talk about a group of activists who gathered on the National Mall for six weeks to live in a shantytown settlement called Resurrection City after Marthin Luther King Jr.’s assassination.
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This hour, we’ll get to know the man who left slavery behind and became a leading voice for civil rights with SMU professor Ezra Greenspan, author of William Wells Brown: An African American Life.
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