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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I just got a vaccine appointment with the Chickasaw Nation, who is now vaccinating any educator in OK. I am so overwhelmed with the historical weight of a removed Native nation providing this settler with a life-saving vaccine.
James T Green's whole piece is worth reading but the anecdote at the end is devastating.
What is storytelling without empathy? What is storytelling if you don't investigate the power dynamics?
http://jamestgreen.com/thoughts/115
The other day we were watching old powwow footage from just a few years ago and it was alarming to see all the people who were there who have since passed on.
Covid 19 left deep scars on our community.
Please. Stop. Putting. People. Who. Are. Still. Lying. About. The. Election. On. TV.
We are so tired y'all. https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1365285550224244736
EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen current and former Amazon corporate employees told @delrey that they saw a pattern of systemic racial bias at the company, which affected Black employees’ career growth and personal lives. https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/2/26/22297554/bias-disrespect-and-demotions-black-employees-say-amazon-has-a-race-problem?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter