Race: Out Loud

Talking race and segregation on one Englewood block

Jun. 25, 2012
WBEZ spent time on one Chicago block, talking with people there about how they view race, segregation and violence from their front porches. 

Studs Terkel’s Race: Where are they now? Salim Muwakkil

Jun. 20, 2012
Each week we're following up with another character from Studs Terkel's 1992 oral history, "Race." This week we feature Salim Muwakkil, journalist and author, talking about Black Nationalism, Louis Farrakhan and why he has had to temper his expectations of President Obama.

Louder Than a Bomb: 'For Colored Girls Who Considered Yaky'

Jun. 20, 2012
Poet Kush Thompson was a 17-year-old senior at Orr Academy High School when she competed in the Louder Than a Bomb Youth Poetry Festival in the Spring of 2012, representing her high school. For Colored Girls Who Considered Yaky she says is "a declaration of black beauty in definance to any practice that asks us to be anything but what we are."

Rodney King’s death spurs race memories

Jun. 19, 2012
Twenty years after Rodney King became a symbol of police brutality, WBEZ's Managing Editor Sally Eisele reflects on what she learned about race while covering the L.A. riots.

Join our "Race: Out Loud" series Book Club

Jun. 18, 2012
Pick up a copy of Studs Terkel's Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession by either dusting it off your shelf, borrowing it from a friend, purchasing a copy, or checking it out from the library.

Louder Than a Bomb: Not Another Race Poem

Jun. 14, 2012
Poets Ari Fulton, Daria Shelton, Jessica Supreme Disu, and Jeffery Lewis competed in the Louder Than a Bomb Youth Poetry Festival in the Spring of 2005, representing Chicago Academy for Performing Arts. In this piece, these four writers hope to encourage their peers not to be afraid to write or talk about issues other than oppression.

Studs Terkel's Race: Where are they now? Joseph Lattimore

Jun. 13, 2012
Joseph Lattimore was a 50 year old insurance broker when he spoke with Studs for the book twenty years ago.  Joe died July 6 and in rememberance of his death, we want to highlight again his outspoken thoughts about the state of race in America.

Louder Than a Bomb: Brown Girl Grows Up Black

Jun. 7, 2012
Poet Asha Ransby-Sporn was a 17-year-old senior at University of Chicago Laboratory High School when she competed in the Louder Than a Bomb Youth Poetry Festival in the Spring of 2012, representing her high school. Brown Girl Grows Up Black poetically recants Asha's ancestry given her mother's adoption as a child, which presents another take on racial identity.

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