Black lives matter movement
Podcaster Chronicles Racism, 'Resistance' And The Fight For Black Lives
Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr.'s "Resistance" podcast explores different aspects of the Black Lives Matter movement. The podcast has been mostly devoted to the protests that started last summer after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, but it also chronicles Tejan-Thomas Jr.'s personal history.
Jon Batiste On Sharing Joy In A Painful Year: 'I Want To Reaffirm People's Humanity'
Jon Batiste reflects on the past year and how music can help, and he plays and sings at the piano.
Black Power Scholar Illustrates How MLK And Malcolm X Influenced Each Other
In his book, The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., Peniel Joseph braids together the lives of the two civil rights leaders. He says that King and Malcolm X had "convergent visions" for Black America — but their strategies for how to reach the goal was informed by their different upbringings.
Prince Wanted To 'Break The Mold Of The Memoir,' Says His Co-Writer
The musician left behind an unfinished memoir when he died in '16. Dan Piepenbring, his co-writer, struggled to make The Beautiful Ones happen in Prince's absence. Originally broadcast Oct. 28, 2019.
'I Can't Breathe' Examines Modern Policing And The Life And Death Of Eric Garner
Eric Garner was the 47 year old man who died at the hands of police in 2014 after he was pushed to the ground and put into an illegal choke hold. Garner repeated the words "I can't breath" eleven times before he died. His death was captured on a cell phone and went viral. And latter spurred on the Black Lives Matter movement. Matt Taibbi set out to find out who Garner was, and how he died.