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African American Studies
Interviews with scholars of African American and Black studies about their new books.
November 3, 2026
The Rediscovery of George "Nash" Walker
The Rediscovery of George "Nash" Walker: : The Price of Black Stardom in Jim Crow America (SUNY Press, 2025) is the first biography dedicated to the l…
November 3, 2026
Jim Crow from the Harbor
How do poor Black communities co-exist with downtown revitalization? How do Black social movements respond to urban renewal to ensure access to better…
November 3, 2026
Alive in the Sound
From the inside flap:In Alive in the Sound: Black Music as Counterhistory (Duke UP, 2025), Ronald Radano proposes a new understanding of US Black musi…
October 29, 2026
Never Caught
When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation’…
October 29, 2026
How Bright the Path Grows
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Franchise comes How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington (P…
October 27, 2026
Once Upon a Time in South Central La
After the groundbreaking success of his debut film, Boyz N the Hood in 1991, filmmaker John Singleton (1968–2019) gained worldwide acclaim, earned the…
October 26, 2026
Code of the Street
Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal …
October 25, 2026
Troop Movements
Tejasvi Nagaraja joins Michael Stauch to talk about Troop Movements: Labor, Race, and Global Freedom Struggles in America’s World War II (U Pennsylvan…
October 25, 2026
Jefferson’s Wolf
In this episode, Matthew Mason (Professor of History at Brigham Young University) interviews Christa Dierksheide (Brockman Foundation Jefferson Schola…
October 23, 2026
Forgive Us Our Debts
When American churches face financial difficulties, a disproportionately high number of Black churches reorganize under chapter 11 bankruptcy. There a…
October 20, 2026
Searching for Jane Crow
In Searching for Jane Crow: Black Women and Mass Incarceration in America from the Auction Block to the Cell Block (Beacon Press, 2022), historian Tal…
October 17, 2026
An Inconvenient Woman
Born in Florida to a religious family, Lillian Smith (1897-1966) was a white Southern woman living in the Jim Crow South who defied all stereotypes: S…
October 13, 2026
Inquisition for Blood
For three years in the early 1900s, a serial killer zigzagged across the rice belt region of the United States, using an everyday ax to slaughter Blac…
October 8, 2026
The Centrality of Slavery
The Centrality of Slavery: Empire and Enslavement in Colonial Illinois and Missouri (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025) examines how French and American colo…
October 7, 2026
To Exist as a Problem
In the first pages of The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois meditates on the question, "How does it feel to be a problem?" In this profound respon…
October 6, 2026
Strung Up
A powerful, unsettling, and unflinching exploration that forces readers to confront lynching as a devastating legacy of white childhood conditioning, …
October 3, 2026
Racist by Design
Kelly Lytle Hernández joins Michael Stauch to discuss how the US immigration system has always been “racist by design.” Many Americans’ understanding …
October 2, 2026
Indefensible Spaces
In this episode, Lilyanna D'Amato speaks with Rahim Kurwa about his book Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing (U California Pres…
October 1, 2026
Let the Oppressed Go Free
David N. Gellman interviews Nicholas P. Wood on Let the Oppressed Go Free: Abolitionism in Colonial and Revolutionary America In Let the Oppressed Go …
September 29, 2026
How Bright the Path Grows
There is no shortage of footage immortalizing the men who spoke at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, when 250,000 Americans gathered …