Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLerone Martin, "Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King Jr." (Amistad, 2026)
Episode 1900
We know who Martin Luther King Jr. became, but who was he at the beginning of his life? How did his youth inform his outlook and activism?
Before Mar…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Benjamin Y. Fong and Paul Prescod, "Rustin's Challenge" (2026)
Episode 311
There was no more trenchant and substantive critic of the Left from the Left in the 1960s and 1970s than Bayard Rustin. Some liberals and leftists to…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Alice Echols, "Black Power, White Heat: From Solidarity Politics to Radical Chic" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Episode 1898
A rich history of cross-racial coalitions and alliances of the Sixties' freedom movement, acclaimed historian Alice Echols's Black Power, White Heat …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Jason R. Young, "The Mask of Memory: White Racial Fantasy After the Civil War" (UNC Press, 2026)
Episode 1897
In the early twentieth century, a group of white writers, artists, and performers from the cultural hub of Charleston, South Carolina, created and cu…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Lost World of African American Cantors 1915–1953
Episode 1896
Histories of Black-Jewish cultural interaction often focus on how Jews adopted and adapted Black vernacular music—ragtime, jazz, swing, R&B, blues—as…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Emely Rumble, "Bibliotherapy in The Bronx" (Row House, 2025)
Episode 1895
Bibliotherapy in The Bronx (Row House, 2025) by Emely Rumble, LCSW, is a groundbreaking exploration of the healing power of literature in the lives o…
6 months, 1 week ago
Rawlston Williams, "The Caribbean Cookbook" (Phaidon Press, 2026)
Episode 1894
An exploration of Caribbean cuisine and culinary history, featuring more than 380 authentic home cooking recipes from across the region Caribbean cui…
6 months, 1 week ago
Voices from a Century of Struggle: Writings of the Jim Crow Era
Episode 1893
Tuesday, April 7, 2026—Confronting disenfranchisement, legal segregation, and terrorist violence in the aftermath of the Civil War, Black Americans c…
6 months, 1 week ago
Cedric de Leon, "Freedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity" (U California Press, 2025)
Episode 1892
Our guest today is Cedric de Leon, author of Freedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity (U California Press, 2025)…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Michael W. Tuck, "The Castle Slaves of the Gambia River: A Creole Community in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World" (Brill, 2026)
Episode 1891
In his new book, The Castle Slaves of the Gambia River: A Creole Community in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World (Brill, 2026) historian Dr. Mic…
6 months, 2 weeks ago