Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
The Land of Our Fathers, Part 2
Sat, 12 Oct
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The Provosts, a family of sugar-cane farmers in Louisiana, had worked the same land for generations....
The Land of Our Fathers, Part 1
Sat, 5 Oct
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More than a century and a half after the promise of 40 acres and a mule, the story of black land own...
How the Bad Blood Started
Sat, 14 Sep
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Black Americans were denied access to doctors and hospitals for decades. From the shadows of this ex...
The Birth of American Music
Fri, 6 Sep
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Black music, forged in captivity, became the sound of complete artistic freedom. It also became the ...
The Economy That Slavery Built
Sat, 31 Aug
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The institution of slavery turned a poor, fledgling nation into a financial powerhouse, and the cott...
The Fight for a True Democracy
Fri, 23 Aug
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America was founded on the ideal of democracy. Black people fought to make it one.“1619” is a Ne...
Introducing ‘1619’
Sat, 17 Aug
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In August of 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of V...