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In his best-seller debut novel, Robert Jones, Jr., describes the romantic and tragic relationship between two enslaved young men on a Mississippi cotton…
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Pamela Sneed’s prose and poetry can reach out and grab you. They did me. She reads four poems from her new memoir, Funeral Diva, on this week’s Out in the…
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Your CallOn this edition of Your Call’s One Planet Series, we’re rebroadcasting our conversation about two recent AP investigations exposing widespread labor and…
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Should any person or institution who has benefited from our sorry history of racism be required to compensate the victims of racism?The United States…
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Your CallOn this edition of Your Call, we’ll talk about the story of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. In his Pulitzer-winning biography of the former slave turned…
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Your CallOn this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, Mother Jones’ award winning investigative reporter Shane Bauer joins us to discuss his new book American…
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Alex Tizon recently wrote about his family’s slave, Lola. Some praise Alex Tizon for his courage in confronting a dark chapter in his family’s history.…
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On this week's West Coast Live, Sedge Thomson talks about freedom and how the stories of slaves, serfs and peons through history can illuminate those…
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After more than 150 years, historians (and perhaps Californians) are facing the horrifying truth that Indian slavery was a key source of labor that helped…
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Your CallOn the October 6th edition of Your Call, we’ll discuss new museums and exhibits that tell the story of African-American history. From the Black Panthers…
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Your CallOn the July 6th edition of Your Call, we revisit our conversation with Professor Andrés Reséndez. He joins us to discuss his new book, The Other Slavery,…
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Your CallOn the May 25th edition of Your Call, Professor Andrés Reséndez joins us to discuss his new book, The Other Slavery, the Uncovered Story of Indian…