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Ray Eames—Industrial Designer & Artist: Beauty in the Everyday
Many know Ray Eames as the small, dirndled woman behind her more famous husband, Charles Eames. But Ray was the industrial designer bending plywood i…
3 years, 3 months ago
Black Reconstruction in America - W.E.B. Du Bois' 1935 Groundbreaking / Myth-Busting Book
In 1935, W. E. B. Du Bois, scholar, public intellectual, and social and political activist, published his magnum opus: Black Reconstruction in Americ…
3 years, 4 months ago
Never a Man Spake Like This Man: The Black Preacher As Performing Artist
In the early 1980s, Black students and the African American community at American University had been demonstrating for more access and inclusion in …
3 years, 4 months ago
The Golden Arches in Black America
Criticisms of fast food often focus on the industrialized system that produces the burgers, buns and fries, or the food’s negative health impacts. So…
3 years, 5 months ago
Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll - The Stock Market Wizard of San Quentin is Released!
In 2015 we presented this story about Curtis Carroll, the Stock Market Wizard of San Quentin. Everyone in San Quentin called him Wall Street. He was …
3 years, 5 months ago
Silent Echoes: Sound Artist Bill Fontana—The Bells of Notre Dame
Since the devastating 2019 fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, the ringing of the cathedral’s bells has ceased.
Sound artist, Bill Fontana, known…
3 years, 6 months ago
204 - Library of Congress Acquires Kitchen Sisters' Audio Collection - KQED Forum Interview
Over 7000 hours of interviews, oral histories, songs, field recordings, along with photographs, notebooks, journals, and research material created by…
3 years, 6 months ago
203 - A San Quentin Wedding
Edmond Richardson is an audio producer for Uncuffed, a KALW podcast produced by people in prison. Recently, Edmond and his love, Avelina, got married…
3 years, 7 months ago
Harvesting Wild Rice—White Earth Ojibwe Land Recovery Project
Each fall, the Ojibwe tribes of northern Minnesota harvest wild rice by hand. It’s a long process that begins with families in canoes venturing into …
3 years, 7 months ago
From Nashville to Nairobi: A History of Country Western Music in Kenya
We trace the history of country music in Kenya, dating back to the 1920s and 30s when local populations first heard Jimmie Rodgers on early country w…
3 years, 8 months ago