Newsmakers meet New Yorkers as host Brian Lehrer and his guests take on the issues dominating conversation in New York and around the world. This daily program from WNYC Studios cuts through the usual talk radio punditry and brings a smart, humane approach to the day's events and what matters most in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, Death, Sex & Money, Nancy, and many others.
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A 'Community History' of Black America
Ibram X. Kendi, professor in the humanities and the founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, columnist at The Atlantic, and the co-editor (with Keisha Blain) of Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (One World, 2021), and Keisha Blain, University of Pittsburgh historian and president of the African American Intellectual History Society, author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), talk about this moment in Black history and their new collection of 80 writers' and 10 poets' take on the American story. Told 5 years at a time, the book documents the history of Black people across this country's 400 year history.