by lindaoppenheim | Apr 3, 2019 | Broadcast, Podcast
Asking about reparations for slavery has become a standard question for Democratic presidential candidates ahead of 2020. And its left many candidates scrambling to respond. But the debate around whether or not to fund reparations for black Americans goes far beyond...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 4, 2018 | Podcast
Fifty years after Martin Luther King’s assassination, Charles McKinney tells The Takeaway host Duarte Geraldino how Dr. King’s image has been sanitized to move him away from the political fighter that he was to someone more palatable to the larger...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 24, 2017 | Exhibit, interview, Uncategorized
“When does art cross into appropriation and exploitation? Baruti Kopano, an associate professor at Morgan State University and co-editor of “Soul Thieves: The Appropriation and Misrepresentation of African American Popular Culture,” weighs in on that...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 21, 2016 | interview
Mechelle Brown, program coordinator at the Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, joins the radio program The Takeaway to examine the effects of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 several decades later, and how the ambivalence with which the riots are discussed and remembered...
by lindaoppenheim | May 2, 2016 | Broadcast
Ellen Frankman and T.J. Raphael interview Jason Ward, author of the book, Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and America’s Civil Rights Century, which explores lynchings which took place in the early and mid-twentieth century on a bridge on the Chickasawhay River...