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The Newspaperman Who Championed Black Tulsa
Episode 509
In the years leading up to the horrific Tulsa massacre of 1921, the Greenwood district was a thriving Black metropolis, a city within a city. Buoyed …
5 years, 2 months ago
Naftali Bennett and the New Hard Line in Israeli Politics
Episode 508
In 2013, David Remnick published a profile of Naftali Bennett. He wrote that Bennett was something new in Israeli politics, a man who would “build a…
5 years, 2 months ago
A Rift over Racism Divides the Southern Baptist Convention, Plus, the Fallout from Gamestop
Episode 507
The largest Protestant denomination in America is in crisis over the group’s reluctance to acknowledge systemic racism; our reporter talks with the R…
5 years, 2 months ago
Jon M. Chu on “In the Heights”
Episode 506
It’s easy to see why the director Jon M. Chu was adamant that the release of “In the Heights” wait until this summer, when more people could see it i…
5 years, 2 months ago
Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax on Beethoven’s Politics of the Cello
Episode 505
Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax have both been playing Beethoven’s Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major for over forty years. But it took a global pandemic for the …
5 years, 2 months ago
A Vaccinated Day at the Ballpark, and Sarah Schulman on ACT-UP
Episode 504
The staff writer Patricia Marx checks out the new vaccinated sections at New York’s Major League Baseball parks. The author and activist Sarah Schulm…
5 years, 2 months ago
Looking Back at the Year of Protest Since the Death of George Floyd
Episode 503
We look back on the year since the murder of George Floyd galvanized the nation. David Remnick talks with Vanita Gupta, the No. 3 official in the Jus…
5 years, 2 months ago
Spike Lee on the Knicks’ Resurgence
Episode 502
Spike Lee is one of the most passionate and committed fans of the New York Knicks—not to mention one of the most celebrated filmmakers of our time. U…
5 years, 3 months ago
Can We Finally End School Segregation?
Episode 501
By many accounts, American schools are as segregated today as they were in the nineteen-sixties, in the years after Brown v. Board of Education. WNYC…
5 years, 3 months ago
“Fire in Little Africa,” A Rap Album about a Historical Tragedy
Episode 500
The Tulsa massacre of 1921 was a coördinated assault on and destruction of the thriving Black community known as Greenwood, Black Wall Street, or Lit…
5 years, 3 months ago