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 may have also written a tiny introduction. But like that is literally the least interesting thing in this AMAZING book! https://twitter.com/catchatweetdown/status/1451346664040566786
People! When I tell you this book is the one, what I'm saying is this👋🏿is👋🏿 the👋🏿one.
@TheMoth was one of the first orgs to believe in my potential as a storyteller and help me hone my craft.
I'm reading it like "how did y'all wait this long? I needed this like 10 years ago! https://twitter.com/TheMoth/status/1451201623347249160
You can hear the dew falling
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Just listen. Hush. Listen with us for a little while.
It is @MichaelSheen performing the Welsh poetry of Dylan Thomas in #UnderMilkWood.
Woke lefty cancel culture, though!
Are folks realizing how insane this is? One, that teaching an academic theory is prohibited by law? Two, that what’s really outlawed is teaching about race, racism and accurate history? Three, that educators are losing their jobs over this? https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1451159545523363848
In S4 we talked about the framers designing the Senate to stop the "people's house" from passing stuff that helps the working-class majority and threatens elite control. What's McConnell referencing here? A bill protecting voting rights for all.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/us/politics/voting-rights-filibuster-democrats.html?smid=tw-share