2020 REBROADCAST: The word “Hiroshima” may bring to mind a black-and-white image of a mushroom cloud. It’s easy to forget that it’s an actual city with a million people and a popular baseball team….
A father turns on a recorder while tucking in his 7-year-old, having no idea he’s about to capture a poignant growing-up moment in his son’s life. (Advisory: This episode is not suitable for some young…
For Eddie Wise, owning a hog farm was a lifelong dream. In middle age, he and his wife, Dorothy, finally got a farm of their own. But they say that over the next twenty-five years,…
Facts can be ignored by the powers that be and still ignite a movement. An interview with Tim Tyson, author of the new book, The Blood of Emmett Till. Tyson was the first historian…
There’s a long and painful history in the U.S. of white men killing black men and boys without punishment. In this episode, we listen in on “Dar He,” the one-man play by Mike Wiley that…
S1 E29: I Found No Strangers (Travels with Mic, Part 3)
- December 14, 2016
- Tagged as: Season 1, Travels With Mic
The last in our series exploring the spirit of America in the footsteps of one of its greatest writers, John Steinbeck. At key spots on Steinbeck’s 1960 journey across the country, we team up with…
S1 E28: Reality is Not the Stronger (Travels with Mic, Part 2)
- November 30, 2016
- Tagged as: Season 1, Travels With Mic
The second in a three-part series, journeying into the soul of America through the eyes of artists, while following in the footsteps of Nobel Prize-winning writer John Steinbeck who drove across the country in 1960…
S1 E27: Monster America (Travels With Mic, Part 1)
- November 16, 2016
- Tagged as: Season 1, Travels With Mic
First in a three-part journey into the soul of America, through the eyes of working people who happen to be artists. In this episode, David Slater in Sag Harbor, New York, and Kalamu ya Salaam…
Siler City, North Carolina used to be a typical Southern town. Everybody was white or black. Now the town’s population is half Latino. One community’s journey through the “five stages of grief” – all the…
How to grieve when the deaths come so quickly? How, as an African American mother, to protect your child’s innocence and hope? An audio essay by Stacia Brown. Photo: Stacia Brown’s daughter, Story. Photo by…
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UN SecGen today calls loss and damage (aka climate reparations) a "litmus test" of seriousness at upcoming global talks : "Failure to act on loss and damage will lead to more loss of trust and more climate damage. This is a moral imperative that cannot be ignored."
Important read. This should be a roster of shame today. Instead, they're thriving politically and the GOPers who did *not* vote to block the transfer of power have lost their jobs in droves. It's a telling sign of the deep trouble we're in.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/03/us/politics/republican-election-objectors.html?smid=tw-share
"...accusing your opponents of wanting to do terrible things that they, in fact, do not want to do, but which you yourself intend to do." @SethCotlar
The term for this sort of rhetoric is “accusation in a mirror,” and scholars of genocide identify it as a major warning sign when political leaders start talking like this. https://twitter.com/accountablegop/status/1576315800079712257
The term for this sort of rhetoric is “accusation in a mirror,” and scholars of genocide identify it as a major warning sign when political leaders start talking like this. https://twitter.com/accountablegop/status/1576315800079712257
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I am not going to mince words with you all. Democrats want Republicans dead and they have already started the killings."
This rhetoric is dangerous and unacceptable.