Thoughtful podcasts on race and it’s continuing influence on our lives
The eugenicists were utopians, convinced that they were doing hard but necessary things. And that included making decisions about who could have children.
Black people all across the US are receiving the world's weirdest form of reparations: Venmo payments from white people. Producer Emmanuel Dzotsi investigates. Additional Reading: Noni's petiti...Show More
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White people are speaking up against racism and showing up to #BlackLivesMatter protests in numbers we haven't seen before. So we asked some of them: What's different this time?
Part VII: People try to come home. But does home want them anymore? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
phyllisgoode recommended:
This episode is crucial insight into rebuilding, and how the disaster of Hurricane Katrina was viewed as an opportunity to tear down public housing & redevelop land where primarily black people lived
Jane, Dara, and Matt on Confederate Memorials, Woodrow Wilson, and the battle for historical memory. Resources: "Woodrow Wilson was extremely racist — even by the standards of his time" by Dylan Matth...Show More
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An important conversation on symbolic stands against racism v. policy changes (housing and police brutality)
There's one critical aspect of the Curtis Flowers case that we haven't looked at yet -- the makeup of the juries. Each of the four times Flowers was convicted, the jury was all white or nearly all whi...Show More
phyllisgoode recommended:
The whole season 2 is phenomenal. However, this episode was one of the most illuminating and frustrating looks into how racist the justice system is.
phyllisgoode recommended:
This episode is so informative and moving. It dives into the overlooked and deeply uncomfortable history of eugenics and forced sterilization in the US