It’s January 19, 2021, the day after the nation’s official sanction of a narrow understanding of the work of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the day before the country “swears in” a new president, the representative of one of only two parties allowed to compete for the style of window dressing in this House of White Supremacy. What has changed? …
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Today’s show is Part One of our conversation with Walter Johnson on his book The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States published by Basic Books We’ll open with “Skin Deep” from Duke Ellington’s “Black, Brown and Beige” performed here by Louie Bellson and His All-Star Orchestra featuring St. Louisan Clark Terry on …
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Our guest today is Yannick Marshall and as I find all his recent essays crystallizations of important truths about the US of A, I’ll let his words serve as an introduction to our conversation. This is from “The Racist’s Peace“: In the times when videos of Black people being killed fall out of the news cycle, Black people are killed …
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