Category: Audio

  • This Historian Wants You To Know The Real Story Of Southern Food The Salt: What’s On Your Plate Weekend Edition Saturday National Public Radio 2016-10-01 Erika Beras Michael Twitty wants credit given to the enslaved African-Americans who were part of Southern cuisine’s creation. Here he is in period costume at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia estate.…

  • For Affirmative Action, Brazil Sets Up Controversial Boards To Determine Race Parallels: Many Stories, One World National Public Radio 2016-09-29 Lulu Garcia-Navarro, South America Correspondent When the test scores came out, Lucas Siqueira, 27, was really excited. His high mark on the Foreign Service exam earned him a coveted position at Brazil’s highly competitive Ministry…

  • Episode 096: Nicholas Guyatt, The Origins of Racial Segregation in the United States Ben Franklin’s World: A Podcast About Early American History 2016-08-22 Liz Covart, Host and Historian Boston, Massachusetts Ever wonder how the United States’ problem with race developed and why early American reformers didn’t find a way to fix it during the earliest…

  • Skin Color Still Plays Big Role In Ethnically Diverse Brazil All Things Considered National Public Radio 2013-09-19 Audie Cornish, Host Melissa Block visits a historic section of Rio de Janeiro that pays homage to Afro-Brazilian history and the many slaves that came ashore there. She talks with Brazilian filmmaker Joel Zito Araujo about what it…

  • Faithfully Podcast 8: Asian Americans, Yellowface, and Pursuing Whiteness Faithfully Magazine: At the Intersection of Race, Culture & Christianity 2016-05-28 Chinese/Filipino Author Bruce Reyes-Chow Shares Perspectives on Navigating Race The Rev. Bruce Reyes-Chow joined the Faithfully Podcast crew recently to share his thoughts and observations on some issues Asian Americans face when it comes to…

  • Author and Professor Devyn Benson Speaks on Her Book “Antiracism in Cuba” Block Report Radio 2016-07-14 “Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution” by author and professor Devyn Benson is an impressive study on the history of racism and Black organizing in Cuba prior to the 1959 revolution and right after it. This book is very…

  • In ‘Black Lotus,’ Author Sil Lai Abrams Explores Search For Racial Identity Here & Now WBUR 90.9 FM, Boston, Massachusetts 2016-08-03 Sil Lai Abrams, author of “Black Lotus: A Woman’s Search for Racial Identity.” (Courtesy of Che Williams) When Sil Lai Abrams was a child, her white father and her Chinese mother explained her dark…

  • A Letter From Young Asian-Americans To Their Families About Black Lives Matter Code Switch: Race and Identity, Remixed National Public Radio 2016-07-27 Shereen Marisol Meraji, Reporter Kat Chow, Digital Journalist In the Facebook Live video streamed earlier this month by Diamond Reynolds after her fiance, Philando Castile, was fatally shot by a police officer during…

  • Episode 21 w/ Sheila Ruiz, Head of Programmes Blacticulate 2016-03-07 Ade Bamgbala, Host Sheila Ruiz, Head of Programmes, Partnerships and Operations Royal African Society, London, England Sheila Ruiz This was another great episode where Sheila and Mangaliso (her newborn) give great advice on how to create a successful event, the challenges, internship platforms out there…

  • How white parents talk with their black and biracial kids about race The Brood 89.3 KPCC, Southern California Public Radio Pasadena, California 2016-07-19 How does “the talk” about race and policing play out when a parent is white and their children are black or biracial? Listen to the episode here. Download the episode here.