by lindaoppenheim | May 3, 2017 | interview
Terry Gross interviews Richard Rothstein, whose new book, The Color of Law, examines the local, state and federal housing policies that mandated segregation.
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 15, 2016 | interview
In 1912, white mobs set fire to black churches and black-owned businesses. Eventually the entire black population of Forsyth County was driven out. These events are described in Blood at the Root by Patrick Phillips, who is interviewed by Terry Gross on Fresh Air. ...
by lindaoppenheim | Jun 21, 2016 | Broadcast
Wendy Warren, Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University, is interviewed by Terry Gross on Fresh Air about her book New England Bound and slavery in colonial New England. “The early colonists imported African slaves and enslaved and exported Native...
by lindaoppenheim | Jul 13, 2015 | Review
Ta-Nehisi Coates, writer for the Atlantic and author of an article on reparations in that journal, is interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air, after the publication of his book Between the World and Me. Read a review of the book by Hope Wabuke on The...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 16, 2014 | Events
“Winner of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival’s Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent, Dear White People is a sly, provocative satire of race relations in the age of Obama. Writer/director Justin Simien follows a group of African American students as...