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Introducing: The No Good, Terribly Kind, Wonderful Lives and Tragic Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman
Season 21
In the No Good, Terribly Kind, Wonderful Lives and Tragic Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman, journalist Kathleen Goldhar looks into the lives and dea…
3 years, 3 months ago
Bonus: The Set from Audacy Originals
It’s the crack era.The most violent time in New York City history. The NYPD is fighting a losing battle and instead of protecting the city from drug …
3 years, 4 months ago
Introducing: The Africas VS. America
Season 20
To those that remember, it’s known simply as the bombing of West Philly. In the spring of 1985, the City of Philadelphia became the first in U.S. his…
3 years, 5 months ago
S20 "The Africas VS. America" E1: Mother's Day
Season 20 Episode 1
In the early hours of May 13, 1985, police direct residents of Osage Avenue in West Philadelphia to leave their homes, and not return for 24 hours. I…
3 years, 5 months ago
S20 "The Africas VS. America" E2: The Making of John Africa (GI John)
Season 20 Episode 2
A quiet and reclusive young man is conscripted to war in Korea and returns having been made anew. Vincent Leaphart becomes the enigmatic John Africa,…
3 years, 5 months ago
S20 "The Africas VS. America" E3: The Toughest Cop in America
Season 20 Episode 3
By the 1970s, both local and federal law enforcement have perfected a system to subvert and neutralize Black liberation movements across the United S…
3 years, 5 months ago
S20 "The Africas VS. America" E4: The Commissioner’s Gambit
Season 20 Episode 4
Complaints from neighbours about MOVE’s lifestyle lead to increasingly violent clashes with police. One confrontation turns deadly, and by 1978, rela…
3 years, 5 months ago
S20 "The Africas VS. America" E5: The System on Trial
Season 20 Episode 5
The MOVE 9 are catapulted into the international spotlight, facing more than 900 years between them for the death of Officer James Ramp — a crime for…
3 years, 5 months ago
S20 "The Africas VS. America" E6: Hellfire
Season 20 Episode 6
In 1983, the City of Philadelphia elects its first Black mayor as successor to Frank Rizzo. Woodrow Wilson Goode inherits Rizzo’s fight against MOVE,…
3 years, 5 months ago
S20 "The Africas VS. America" E7: Elegy
Season 20 Episode 7
After a commission finds that city officials and police were negligent in their actions on May 13, 1985, a reeling city looks to heal, and surviving …
3 years, 5 months ago