Exploring America’s past to cast fresh light on contemporary life.
FromThe History of Now
We present a special, one hour episode of our series The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel.
The story of the first major black-owned record label and the mystery behind the man who created it.
Emmett Till’s murder is considered the spark that ignited a burgeoning Civil Rights movement. But there was another brazen murder of a Black man that happened just three months later, in a neighboring town in the Delta.
A story about the limits of empathy. A collaboration with NPR’s Code Switch.
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