Talking race and segregation on one Englewood block
WBEZ spent time on one Chicago block, talking with people there about how they view race, segregation and violence from their front porches.
WBEZ spent time on one Chicago block, talking with people there about how they view race, segregation and violence from their front porches.
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Join Richard Steele as he hosts a lively conversation at Maria’s Bar in Bridgeport about what it used to mean to be black in Bridgeport after dark and what it means now. Wednesday, June 27, at 5:30 …
All summer long we’re talking about race - out loud - in frank conversations and lively public events.