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Legacies Of WWII
In recent years, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII has gotten more attention. But most of that attention focuses on the West Coast,…
4 years, 2 months ago
Medicine's Messiness
The patient-doctor relationship is complicated and fraught. Patients often feel confused and talked down to, in part because doctors feel like they n…
4 years, 2 months ago
Music As Escape
Formed in the mid 1960’s, The Soulmasters was an interacial soul band from Danville, VA. Jerry Wilson and John Irby were the two African-American lea…
4 years, 3 months ago
Attack Of The Zombie Crabs
There’s a parasite inhabiting the bodies of crabs, and making them infertile. Amy Fowler says that if that parasite entered the Chesapeake Bay, 90% o…
4 years, 3 months ago
REPLAY Patrick Henry's Speech
Thomas Jefferson said Patrick Henry “got the ball of revolution rolling.” Historian John Ragosta says Henry was five times elected governor of coloni…
4 years, 3 months ago
REPLAY Let's Take a Walk
Many of us are more closely tuned in to the environment around us than ever before. We’re spending more time hanging outdoors, planting kitchen garde…
4 years, 3 months ago
Borderlands
The colonial era is usually seen as prim and proper - a time when manners were refined and marriage was sacrosanct. But that period may have been muc…
4 years, 4 months ago
The Wonder Years
Being a Black girl in a mostly white space can bring stress, frustration, anger, and all kinds of mixed emotions. In Finding Her Voice, Faye and Ivy …
4 years, 4 months ago
REPLAY Gun Sense
Student survivors of school shootings have made their voices heard, loud and clear. But the teacher's perspective of school shootings is less common.…
4 years, 4 months ago
Newton's Annotator
A lot of the day’s popular shows like Lovecraft Country and Watchmen have their roots in Black newspapers. Brooks Hefner says these stories imagined …
4 years, 4 months ago