Tracing the Legacy of Slavery Across Generations
Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi joins us to discuss her novel Homegoing which traces 300 hundred years of history in Ghana and the United States through the story of two half-sisters, Effia and Esi...
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Why you can’t talk about the Southern kitchen without slaves’ contributions
Watch VideoJOHN YANG: Grilling outdoors and drinking cold refreshments aren’t mentioned anywhere in the Declaration of Independence, but they’re both a big part of how we celebrate the Fourth of...
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Imagining the Underground Railroad as an actual train system
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Now: a new look at the terrible cost of slavery in America. It comes in a work of fiction, one that combines gritty realism with a leap of the...
View ArticleTrump Country, Disaster in Portland, Nat Turner's Rebellion
Coming up on today's show:Reports emerged this weekend that Donald Trump may abandon his plan to use a "deportation force" to round up an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants, though his...
View ArticleRemembering the Legacy of Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.On August 21st, 1831, the south's most violent slave rebellion unfolded over a 48 hour period in Southampton County, Virginia. Led by Nat...
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Georgetown University tries to make amends for profiting from slavery
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: In recent years, a number of prestigious colleges and universities have had to acknowledge their past ties and history to slavery in the U.S.Today,...
View ArticleGeorgetown University Makes Amends for Slavery
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment.Yesterday, Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia publicly announced that the institution will make amends to the descendants of the...
View ArticlePROMO - Body Politics: Disability in America [rebroadcast] [Full Episode]
In 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act made everything from parking lots to bathrooms accessible. But before this legislation, disabled people found their own ways to navigate society. On this...
View ArticleWar of Words
Americans have sought to censor all kinds of expression: political speech, music, radio, TV, film, even books. In this episode, Peter, Ed, and Brian mark the annual Banned Books Week with an uncut...
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UN panel says the U.S. owes reparations to African-Americans
Joe Stewart and Patricia Bayonne-Johnson, both descendants of people sold as slaves by Georgetown University, arrive to hear about moves aimed at acknowledging and encouraging dialogue about the...
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Can DNA tests help repair social ruptures from transatlantic slavery?
This aluminium template representing the base thymine (T) is part of Crick and Watson’s model of DNA. Bases are those groups of atoms that make up DNA’s twin strands. Photo by SSPL/Getty ImagesIn 2002,...
View ArticleThe Loophole in the End of Slavery
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay (“Selma”) turns to documentary with “13th,” a film essay about the Constitution’s 13th amendment, which abolished slavery with the loophole clause “except as a punishment for a...
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How the N-word became the ‘atomic bomb of racial slurs’
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioEditor’s Note: This conversation contains a racial slur.JUDY WOODRUFF: Yesterday, Charlotte television reporter Steve Crump accepted an apology from Brian Eybers. The...
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In ‘Whitman’s Descendants,’ photographing some of America’s greatest living...
Poet Anis Mojgani appears in a portrait based on his poem “we were horses.” It reads: “I was in a dream country. You were there. / And all those little blonde hairs that run up your legs / and over...
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Electoral College is ‘vestige’ of slavery, say some Constitutional scholars
The Federal Convention convened in the State House (Independence Hall) in Philadelphia on May 14, 1787, to revise the Articles of Confederation. Photo by Library of CongressWhen the founders of the...
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This year, laws with roots to the Civil War prevented 6.1 million from voting
Vintage Civil War print of General Lee surrendering his Confederate forces to General Grant. It reads: “The room in the McLean House, at Appomattox C.H., in which Gen. Lee surrendered to Gen. Grant....
View ArticleRutgers University Recognizes Historical Ties to Racism and Slavery
A number of colleges across the nation are taking steps to confront their own historical ties to racism and slavery, and one of those is Rutgers — New Jersey's state university. Last week, the school...
View ArticleCakewalk
Some parodies are so clever the subjects don't even realize they're being mocked. The cakewalk dance was created by slaves to poke fun at their white masters. And the clueless masters loved it....
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From media cutoffs to lockdown, tracing the fallout from the U.S. prison strike
Prisoners appear at the Walls Unit in Huntsville, Texas, where prisoners are processed for release at the completion of their sentences. Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty ImagesPrisons in...
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Lynching memorial aims to help U.S. acknowledge a history of terror
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Next: Of the stains left on our national heritage by the country’s history of slavery and Jim Crow segregation, perhaps the least discussed is the...
View Article01/24/17: Horror in Oklahoma, Trump Tackles TPP, The Brutality of Slavery
Coming up on today's show:The Takeaway visits Cushing, Oklahoma, the pipeline crossroads of the world. It’s here that the market price for oil is set. It’s also a town that’s been experiencing a...
View ArticleThe Legacy of Slavery and The Value of Black Life in America
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment.For as long as America has existed, black life has been valued and devalued to varying degrees. It is what former First Lady Michelle Obama...
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Resistance builds against social media ban in Texas prisons
Illustration by Kevin “Rashid” JohnsonWhen Texas correctional officials earlier this month saw an article by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson online that said they had gassed him and ransacked his cell in...
View ArticleTowards a Fairer and Sustainable Economy, "I Am Not Your Negro," The Gurus of...
Economist and University Professor at Columbia Jeffrey Sachs joins us to discuss his book, Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair and Sustainable. Director Raoul Peck joins us to discuss his...
View ArticleWhy James Baldwin's Activism Matters Today
Director Raoul Peck joins us to discuss his documentary, “I Am Not Your Negro” based on the writings of James Baldwin. The film moves across time and space, sliding from the historical civil rights...
View ArticleWhy George Washington Kept Pursuing a Runaway Slave
Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Black American Studies and History at the University of Delaware, joins us to discuss her new book Never Caught: Ona Judge, the...
View ArticleUS Senator Whitehouse, Washington's Runaway Slave, a Lopate Family Chat, Dog...
U.S. Senator and former federal prosecutor Sheldon Whitehouse joins us to discuss his new book Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy, which examines corporate influence on politics...
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American Icons: Monticello
The home of America’s aspirations and deepest contradictions.Monticello is home renovation run amok. Thomas Jefferson was as passionate about building his house as he was about founding the United...
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In new presidential exhibits, slavery takes center stage
Montpelier, the former home of James Madison. Credit: Alison ThoetMonticello and Montpelier, the former homes of presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, have long been attractions for those...
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This digital archive of slave voyages details the largest forced migration in...
A view of the Elmina Castel is seen in Elmina December 21, 2012. The Elmina Castle was built by the Portuguese in 1482 and would later become one of the most important stops on the Atlantic...
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Why Confederate monuments are coming down
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View ArticleReckoning with America's original sin.
Coming up on today's show:The United Kingdom is on edge yet again after a van ran into a crowd of worshipers near a north London mosque. One man is dead, and at least 10 are injured. Ambassador Akbar...
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Annette Gordon-Reed and Titus Kaphar — Are We Actually Citizens Here?
In life, in families, we shine a light on the past to live more abundantly now. In this conversation at the Citizen University annual conference, historian Annette Gordon-Reed and painter Titus Kaphar...
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This sorghum-brined chicken recipe is a lesson in African-American history
Michael Twitty in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, where he is currently a historian-in-residence.Where does Southern food come from? In a new book that’s part memoir and part history, culinary...
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A feast of African-American culinary contributions, baked into the South’s DNA
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Finally tonight: one man’s journey into his own personal history and into the roots and history of American cooking and cuisine from Africa to...
View ArticleHow this slave descendent is helping reframe history at Madison’s home
Leontyne Peck relocated to the rural Madison County area of Virginia a few years ago because she felt drawn to the area. She had no idea how deep that pull was until she literally started digging in...
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Local gives history of civil rights in Charlottesville
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View ArticleTerror in Charlottesville; North Korea; The Legacy of Lynching
Coming up on today's show: Sheryl Gay Stolberg, the Domestic Affairs Correspondent for The New York Times, and FiveThirtyEight political writer, Perry Bacon Jr on the violence in Charlottesville. Fred...
View ArticleThe Legacy of Lynching in America
Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of Equal Justice Initiative, professor of law at New York University Law School and author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (Spiegel & Grau,...
View Article271- The Great Dismal Swamp
On the border of Virginia and North Carolina stretches a great, dismal swamp. The Great Dismal Swamp, actually — that’s the name British colonists gave it centuries ago. The swamp covers about 190...
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How Did the Confederate Flag Come North?
Christina Hunt Wood lives upstate, in Delaware County. In 2015, soon after the mass shootings at a church in Charleston, SC, she started noticing Confederate flags everywhere."You'd find them popping...
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Why I broke the rule of survival for black Americans
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Sometimes overlooked in this week’s debate over whether athletes should take a knee during the playing of the national anthem before games is the...
View ArticleAll work. No pay. Life at a rehab work camp.
Desperate to reduce crowding in jails and prisons, court systems all over the country are trying diversion – alternatives to putting offenders behind bars. On today’s Reveal, we peek behind the good...
View ArticleCivil War Refresher
Kenneth C. Davis, author of the Don't Know Much About the Civil War: Everything You Need to Know About America's Greatest Conflict but Never Learned and In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of...
View ArticleJohn Jay College Releases Searchable New York Slavery Records
Slavery was introduced in New York City in 1626, less than two years after Dutch settlers first arrived on Manhattan. Between 1711 and 1762, thousands of enslaved people were brought to the city and...
View ArticleWhen Teaching Students About Slavery Fails
A recent report from the Southern Poverty Law Center suggests students are not learning the history of slavery in the United States very well and as a result, they're less able to reckon with...
View ArticleShackled Legacy: Universities and the Slave Trade
Dozens of American colleges and universities are investigating the historic ties to the slave trade and debating how to atone. Profits from slavery and related industries helped fund some of the most...
View ArticleReading the Reckoning: Tiya Miles
Detroit is a city whose arc is well known: a sensational, prosperous rise followed by a stunning decline that left the city bankrupt and its people with few options. But there’s much more to Detroit’s...
View ArticleFirsthand Accounts of American Slavery and Resistance
Noel Rae discusses his latest book The Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery. He integrates firsthand accounts into a narrative history that brings the reader face to face with slavery’s everyday...
View ArticleInside the #NeverAgain Movement, Living with Wolves, Stories of American...
Journalist Emily Witt talks about her coverage of the Parkland shooting and #NeverAgain movement for The New Yorker. Jim Dutcher and Jamie Dutcher share their story of living with wolves in Idaho for...
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