New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb joins us to talk about how Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street and other groups are following Martin Luther King Jr’s model of civil disobedience.
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The Persisting Racial Divide
This hour, we’ll talk about how the Thirteenth Amendment led to Jim Crow laws, how Brown v. Board of Education led to shutting down public schools and other instances of Civil Rights backlash with Carol Anderson, chair of the African American Studies department at Emory University.
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A Chosen Exile
This hour, we’ll talk about picking between identity and survival with Stanford assistant history professor Allyson Hobbs, author of “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life.”
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How NASA Helped End Segregation
While NASA’s primary mission in the 1960s was to go to the moon, it also wanted to improve the economy and use its program for social change.
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Music To March To
This hour, we’ll learn how African American spirituals once sung in the fields evolved into the protest songs that paved the way for equality with Baylor University associate professor Robert F. Darden.
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In Schools, Segregation Remains
We’ll talk this hour about the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education and the current racial makeup of our schools with the producer of the Frontline documentary Separate and Unequal.
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An Hour With Jesse Jackson
As KERA marks the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Summer, we’ll talk to Rev. Jackson about his lifetime devotion to the Civil Rights movement.
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A Journey Through Shrines Of Freedom
What can college students learn by visiting the historic sites of the Civil Rights Era?
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