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Submit Your Song to the Public Song Project WNYC 2024-05-04 | Every year on January 1, new works of art — songs, books, movies — enter the U.S. public domain, meaning they can be freely shared, copied, adapted, and recorded by anyone!Launched last year, the Public Song Project invites anyone to explore this trove of material and show how it can be used creatively, by recording your own musical adaptation of a work in the public domain, sending it into us, and getting a chance to talk about it on WNYC. At the end of the contest, we’ll post all the qualifying entries in one place for all the public to hear.Get complete info on how to participate in the Public Song Project here: wnyc.org/publicsongprojectWhat's new for 2024?Twist 1: The 1920sLast year, you had free reign of the public domain for your recording. This year, with a nod to WNYC’s 100th anniversary, we’re asking you to focus on works of music, literature and film from the 1920s. (That doesn’t mean your recording has to incorporate work only from the 1920s, but our selection process will prioritize creative adaptations of 1920s material.)Twist 2: Special GuestsIn addition to listener submissions, professional recording artists and friends of WNYC will also be contributing to the 2024 Public Songbook. That means you could be featured alongside such artists as They Might Be Giants, Rhiannon Giddens, Bela Fleck, The Lemon Twigs, Arturo O’Farrill, Valerie June, and many more.Twist 3: Lincoln CenterThe Public Song Project will take the stage at Lincoln Center on July 20, as part of Summer for the City. The event will feature special guests and members of the public — that could be you!Who can submit?Anybody (18 or older)You don’t have to be a professional musician to submit; maybe you only pick up the guitar every once in a while, maybe you’re a lapsed piano student. And if you’re not much of a singer, rap or spoken word are cool too! Or just instrumentals. Just give it your best shot.What can you submit? Your songs could be:•Straightforward covers•Original twists on 1920s compositions with new music or lyrics•Remixes sampling films or sound recordings (make sure your sound recordings were recorded in 1923 or earlier!)•Public domain poetry (e.g. Langston Hughes, AA Milne, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Kahlil Gibran) set to original, or public domain, music •Based on quotes, passages, plotlines, or characters from a public domain book/play (e.g. a song based on "The Great Gatsby," "Ulysses," "Mrs. Dalloway," "The Mysterious Affair at Styles")Your new recording could celebrate a work from the past. It could reimagine a composition for the present day. It could even challenge or engage in dialogue with the sometimes archaic sensibilities of art from that time.Just make sure your submission is based on work that’s in the U.S. public domain, and was recorded for this project.
There Was Love Here | Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows Ep 6 | Podcast WNYC 2024-02-25 | In this final episode of the Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows podcast, we turn to people living with HIV today — longtime survivors of a plague who, despite their pain, frustrations and desires to just be done with it, realize they can’t be done with it. These are people like Kia LaBeija, an artist who has been HIV-positive since birth, who turned to photography at 16, shortly after her mother died, to help make sense of her story. And they are people like Phill Wilson, an activist who still bears the scars of his decades fighting in the HIV and AIDS trenches; Valerie Reyes-Jimenez, the proudly positive woman we met in the first episode, who talks about what it’s like to age as a HIV-positive woman; Victor Reyes, one of the children who went through Harlem Hospital and lived long enough to grow up and start a family of his own; and Lizzette Rivera, who who lost her mother to AIDS in 1984 and spent decades trying to find her mother’s burial spot so that she could properly mourn and honor her. Together, these five remind us that the HIV and AIDS epidemic is not over — and there is still so much we need to do to bring it out of the shadows.• Subscribe and listen to Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows wherever you get podcasts: bit.ly/3SrYt7s• Listen to the full episodes of Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows on YouTube: bit.ly/47GhQxY• Subscribe to see and hear more from WNYC on YouTube: bit.ly/3mzLqA4• Like this video and leave us a comment!Follow WNYC on social:• X (Twitter): twitter.com/wnyc• Instagram: instagram.com/wnyc• Facebook: facebook.com/wnyc• Threads: threads.net/@wnycVoices in this episode include:• Kia LaBeija, a former mother of the House of LaBeija, is an image-maker and storyteller born and raised in Hell’s Kitchen in the heart of New York City. Her performative self-portraits embody memory and dream-like imagery to narrate complex stories at the intersections of womanhood, sexuality and navigating the world as an Afro Filipina living with HIV.• Warren Benbow is a drummer who has worked with Nina Simone, James “Blood” Ulmer, Betty Carter and Whitney Houston, among others. He grew up in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, and went to the High School of Performing Arts. Warren is Kia’s father.• Phill Wilson is the founder of the Black AIDS Institute, AIDS policy director for the city of Los Angeles at the height of the epidemic, and a celebrated AIDS activist in both the LGBTQ+ and Black communities since the early 1980s.• Valerie Reyes-Jimenez is a HIV-positive woman, activist and organizer with Housing Works. She saw the AIDS crisis develop from a nameless monster into a pandemic from her home on New York City’s Lower East Side.• Victor Reyes was born at Harlem Hospital Center and spent much of his childhood receiving treatment and care at the hospital’s pediatric AIDS unit. He is the director of an after school program at a grade school in Washington, D.C. He also does research at the Global Community Health Lab at Howard University.• Lizzette Rivera is a data analyst who remains haunted by her mother’s death in 1984. Rivera spent years trying to find the whereabouts of mother’s burial site on Hart Island. She finally succeeded in 2020. She now visits her mother’s grave regularly.Blindspot is a co-production of The @HISTORY Channel and WNYC Studios, in collaboration with @thenation Magazine.Photo of Kia LaBeija by Valerie Reyes-Jimenez.Video by Kim Nowacki.A companion photography exhibit by Kia LaBeija featuring portraits from the series is on view through March 11 at The Greene Space at WNYC in New York City. The photography for Blindspot was supported by a grant from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
What If I Could Have Grown Old With My Brother? | Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows Ep 5 Podcast WNYC 2024-02-18 | In 1985, doctors at a methadone clinic in the South Bronx made the harrowing discovery: 50% of its patients had HIV. Three years later, in the same neighborhood, a pair of epidemiologists estimated that as many as one in five young men were positive for the disease. Those numbers made the South Bronx one of most critical hotspots for HIV in the country.Joyce Rivera was born and raised in the South Bronx. She watched as heroin flooded into her neighborhood followed by HIV. When Rivera’s brother died in 1987, she decided to do something. Working with a heroin dealer and a local priest, she defied the law and set up an illegal needle exchange in an attempt to prevent the transmission of HIV among injection drug users. And she largely succeeded. But what if this country had treated drug addiction like a public health issue instead of a criminal problem?• Subscribe and listen to Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows wherever you get podcasts: bit.ly/3SrYt7s• Listen to the full episodes of Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows on YouTube: bit.ly/47GhQxY• Subscribe to see and hear more from WNYC on YouTube: bit.ly/3mzLqA4• Like this video and leave us a comment!Follow WNYC on social:• X (Twitter): twitter.com/wnyc• Instagram: instagram.com/wnyc• Facebook: facebook.com/wnyc• Threads: threads.net/@wnycVoices in this episode include:• Joyce Rivera is the founder of St. Ann’s Corner of Harm Reduction, one of the first syringe-exchange programs in New York City. A National Science Foundation Fellow from 1981 to 1984, Rivera has been a leader in the field of AIDS and substance use for 35 years.• Don Des Jarlais has been a leader in the field of HIV and AIDS research among persons who inject drugs (PWID) for nearly 40 years. A professor of epidemiology at New York University, he served as the principal investigator of the “Risk Factors” study, which was instrumental in tracking the HIV and AIDS epidemic in New York City, among numerous others.• Sister Eileen Hogan was the first female chaplain in the Department of Correction in New York City.• Dr. Arye Rubinstein is an immunologist and allergist on the faculty at Albert Einstein Medical Center and Montefiore Medical Center. An early pioneer in AIDS research and treatment for children, he founded the pediatric AIDS center at Einstein in the early 1980s.• Father Luis Barrios is a priest and a professor of Latin American and Latinx studies and sociology at both John Jay College and the CUNY Graduate Center.• Robert Fullilove is associate dean for community and minority affairs at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, as well as a professor of clinical sociomedical sciences and the co-director of the Cities Research Group.Blindspot is a co-production of The @HISTORY Channel and WNYC Studios, in collaboration with @thenation Magazine.Portrait of Joyce Rivera by Kia LaBeija.Video by Kim Nowacki.A companion photography exhibit by Kia LaBeija featuring portraits from the series is on view through March 11 at The Greene Space at WNYC in New York City. The photography for Blindspot was supported by a grant from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
Respectability Politics and the AIDS Crisis | Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows Ep 4 | Podcast WNYC 2024-02-11 | By 1986, almost 40% of people diagnosed with AIDS in the United States were either Black or Latino. As the full contours of the crisis became apparent, a group of Black gay men began to organize in cities across the country, demanding attention and support for the people dying in their midst. This effort required them to confront big, important institutions in both the medical establishment and the government — and it meant they had to stare down racism in the broader LGBTQ+ community. But perhaps their most pressing and consequential challenge was the most difficult to name: the rejection of their own community.As men, women and children within the Black community began falling ill, essential institutions — the family, the church, civil rights groups — which had long stood powerfully against the most brutal injustices, remained silent or, worse, turned away. Why? What made so many shrink back at such a powerful moment of need? And what would it take to get them to step up?In this episode, we meet some of the people who pushed their families, ministers and politicians to reckon with the crisis in their midst. Along the way, we learn how one community was able to change — and we ask, what might have been different if that change had come sooner?CONTENT ADVISORY: This episode contains a brief mention of suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts, there’s help available. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is open 24 hours a day by calling or texting 988. There’s also a live chat option here: http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org• Subscribe and listen to Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows wherever you get podcasts: bit.ly/3SrYt7s• Listen to the full episodes of Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows on YouTube: bit.ly/47GhQxY• Subscribe to see and hear more from WNYC on YouTube: bit.ly/3mzLqA4• Like this video and leave us a comment!Follow WNYC on social:• X (Twitter): twitter.com/wnyc• Instagram: instagram.com/wnyc• Facebook: facebook.com/wnyc• Threads: threads.net/@wnycVoices in this episode include:• George Bellinger grew up in Queens, New York. He’s been involved in activism since he was a teenager. He was an original board member of Gay Men of African Descent and also worked at GMHC and other HIV and AIDS organizations. He says his work is to “champion those who don’t always have a champion.”• Gil Gerald is a Black HIV and AIDS activist and writer, who co-founded the National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays.• Cathy Cohen is the author of “The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics,” which is considered a definitive history of the epidemic in Black communities.• Governor David Paterson is the former governor of New York State and a former state senator. He is the son of Basil Paterson, who served as state senator from Harlem in the late 1960s, secretary of New York State in the 1980s, and was a longtime member of Harlem’s political establishment.• Pernessa Seele is an immunologist and interfaith public health activist. She founded the Harlem Week of Prayer to End Aids and the Balm in Gilead.• Dr. Beny Primm was a nationally recognized expert on drug addiction and substance abuse treatment. His work on addiction led him to becoming one of the world’s foremost experts on HIV and AIDS.• Lawrence Brown was Dr. Beny Primm’s protégé who worked as an internist at Harlem Hospital and at Dr. Primm’s Addiction Recovery and Treatment Center in Brooklyn. Brown served on the National Black Commission on AIDS, American Society of Addiction Medicine and took over for Dr. Primm as Director of ARTC (now START) when he retired.• Jeanine Primm-Jones is the daughter of Dr. Beny Primm, a pioneer of addiction treatment and recovery. Primm is a clinical social worker, abuse recovery specialist and wellness coach, who worked with her father for decades before his death in 2015.• Phill Wilson is the founder of the Black AIDS Institute, AIDS policy director for the city of Los Angeles at the height of the epidemic and a celebrated AIDS activist in both the LGBTQ+ and Black communities since the early 1980s.Audio from the 1986 American Public Health Association annual conference comes from APHA.Dr. Beny Primm archival audio comes from History Makers.Blindspot is a co-production of The @HISTORY Channel and WNYC Studios, in collaboration with @thenation Magazine.Portrait of David Paterson by Kia LaBeija.Video by Kim Nowacki.A companion photography exhibit by Kia LaBeija featuring portraits from the series is on view through March 11 at The Greene Space at WNYC in New York City. The photography for Blindspot was supported by a grant from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
Women Don’t Get AIDS, They Just Die From It | Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows Ep 3 | Podcast WNYC 2024-02-04 | From the very earliest days of the epidemic, women got infected with HIV and died from AIDS — just like men. But from the earliest days, this undeniable fact was largely ignored — by the public, the government and even the medical establishment. The consequences of this blindspot were profound. Many women didn’t know they could get HIV.But in the late 1980s, something remarkable happened. At a maximum security prison in upstate New York, a group of women came together to fight the terror and stigma that was swirling in the prison as more and more women got sick with HIV and AIDS. Katrina Haslip was one of them. An observant Muslim and former sex worker, she helped found and create AIDS Counseling and Education (ACE), one of the country’s first HIV and AIDS organizations for women. And when she got out of prison, she kept up the work: she joined forces with women activists on the outside to be seen, heard and treated with dignity. This is her story — and the story of scores of women like her who fought to change the very definition of AIDS.• Subscribe and listen to Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows wherever you get podcasts: bit.ly/3SrYt7s• Listen to the full episodes of Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows on YouTube: bit.ly/47GhQxY• Subscribe to see and hear more from WNYC on YouTube: bit.ly/3mzLqA4• Like this video and leave us a comment!Follow WNYC on social:• X (Twitter): twitter.com/wnyc• Instagram: instagram.com/wnyc• Facebook: facebook.com/wnyc• Threads: threads.net/@wnycVoices in this episode include:• Katrina Haslip was an AIDS activist who was born in Niagara Falls, New York. She spent five years at the Bedford Hills Correctional Center, during which time she served as a prison law librarian and helped found the organization AIDS Counseling and Education (ACE). After her release in 1990, she continued her advocacy through ACE-Out, an organization she formed to support women leaving prison, as well as ACT UP and other organizations.• Judith Clark spent 37 years in prison for her role in the October 1981 Brink’s robbery. In prison, she helped found AIDS Counseling and Education (ACE), along with other programs to support and counsel women. Since her release in 2019, she has continued to work on behalf of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women.• Maxine Wolfe was a member of the women’s committee of ACT UP. Wolfe is an American author, scholar and activist for AIDS, civil rights, lesbian rights and reproductive rights. She is a co-founder of the Lesbian Avengers, a coordinator at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, and a member of Queer Nation. Wolfe is currently professor emerita of women's and gender studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY.• Terry McGovern is a lawyer and senior associate dean for academic and student affairs in the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. In 1989, McGovern founded the HIV Law Project and served as the executive director until 1999. Her successful lawsuit against the Social Security Administration enabled scores of women with AIDS to receive government benefits.• Dr. Kathy Anastos is a professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Anastos’s work advances HIV and AIDS research and treatment, both globally and in the Bronx. She has been the principal investigator of the New York City/Bronx Consortium of the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) since it was launched in 1993.This episode title comes from a Gran Fury poster. Gran Fury was an artist collective that worked in collaboration with ACT UP and created public art in response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic: whitney.org/collection/works/59733Resources: "The Invisible Epidemic: The Story of Women And AIDS" by Gena Corea: amazon.com/Invisible-Epidemic-Story-Women-AIDS/dp/0060921919Blindspot is a co-production of The @HISTORY Channel and WNYC Studios, in collaboration with @thenation Magazine.Portrait of Terry McGovern by Kia LaBeija.Video by Kim Nowacki.A companion photography exhibit by Kia LaBeija featuring portraits from the series is on view through March 11 at The Greene Space at WNYC in New York City. The photography for Blindspot was supported by a grant from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
The Inconvenient King - Michael Hill with Rahiel Tesfamariam and Jonathan Eig WNYC 2024-01-29 | On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, WNYC’s Kai Wright, Michael Hill and Brian Lehrer for the 18th annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in a live-streamed MLK special.In collaboration with the Apollo Theater and March on Washington Film Festival, this year’s event, “The Inconvenient King” examines the history of the word "woke" in the context of Dr. King’s work to build awareness, action and urgency around injustice and discrimination. Click here for the full show. WNYC’s Michael Hill, Host of Morning Edition interviews Jonathan Eig, author of "King: A Life" and youth minister and author Rahiel Tesfamariam.
WNYC and Apollo Theater Present: The Inconvenient King - Brian Lehrer w/ Leah and Richard Rothstein WNYC 2024-01-29 | On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, WNYC’s Kai Wright, Michael Hill and Brian Lehrer for the 18th annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in a live-streamed MLK special.In collaboration with the Apollo Theater and March on Washington Film Festival, this year’s event, “The Inconvenient King” examines the history of the word "woke" in the context of Dr. King’s work to build awareness, action and urgency around injustice and discrimination. Click here for the full show.WNYC and Apollo Theater Present: The Inconvenient King - WNYC’s Brian Lehrer, Host of The Brian Lehrer Show interviews Leah and Richard Rothstein, co-authors of "JUST ACTION: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law".
WNYC and Apollo Theater Present: The Inconvenient King - Mumu Fresh WNYC 2024-01-29 | Afro-Indigenous Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and activist performs:Save Your FlowersScottsboro BoysSay My NameShine Your LightOn this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, WNYC’s Kai Wright, Michael Hill and Brian Lehrer for the 18th annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in a live-streamed MLK special.In collaboration with the Apollo Theater and March on Washington Film Festival, this year’s event, “The Inconvenient King” examines the history of the word "woke" in the context of Dr. King’s work to build awareness, action and urgency around injustice and discrimination. Click here for the full show.
WNYC and Apollo Theater Present: The Inconvenient King - Alvin Singh WNYC 2024-01-29 | On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, WNYC’s Kai Wright, Michael Hill and Brian Lehrer for the 18th annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in a live-streamed MLK special.In collaboration with the Apollo Theater and March on Washington Film Festival, this year’s event, “The Inconvenient King” examines the history of the word "woke" in the context of Dr. King’s work to build awareness, action and urgency around injustice and discrimination. Alvin Singh, great-great nephew of Lead Belly, producer of the documentary "Lead Belly: The Man Invented Rock & Roll" on The Misappropriation of Woke.
WNYC and Apollo Theater Present: The Inconvenient King - Juliet Hooker and Mumu Fresh WNYC 2024-01-29 | On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, WNYC’s Kai Wright, Michael Hill and Brian Lehrer for the 18th annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in a live-streamed MLK special.In collaboration with the Apollo Theater and March on Washington Film Festival, this year’s event, “The Inconvenient King” examines the history of the word "woke" in the context of Dr. King’s work to build awareness, action and urgency around injustice and discrimination. Click here for the full show.Juliet Hooker author of "Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss and Mumu Fresh Afro-Indigenous Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and activist.
WNYC and Apollo Theater Present: The Inconvenient King - Juliet Hooker WNYC 2024-01-29 | On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, WNYC’s Kai Wright, Michael Hill and Brian Lehrer for the 18th annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in a live-streamed MLK special.In collaboration with the Apollo Theater and March on Washington Film Festival, this year’s event, “The Inconvenient King” examines the history of the word "woke" in the context of Dr. King’s work to build awareness, action and urgency around injustice and discrimination. Click here for the full show.Juliet Hooker author of "Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss"
If I Didnt Have HIV, I Wouldnt Have Met You | Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows Ep 2 | Podcast WNYC 2024-01-28 | It’s the 1980s — Harlem, USA — and the 17th floor of the area’s struggling public hospital is filling up with infants and children who arrive and then never leave. Some spend their whole lives on the pediatric ward, celebrating birthdays, first steps and first words with the nurses and doctors who’ve become their surrogate family. Welcome to Harlem Hospital at the height of the HIV and AIDS epidemics.When the nurses and doctors at this community hospital first began to see infants suffering from an unusual wasting disease, they were alarmed. They had heard that a strange new illness was killing gay men, but no one was talking about women and children. Soon, however, it became clear that HIV was sweeping through Harlem, sickening mothers who then passed it — unknowingly — to their kids. As the crisis grew, AIDS turned the pediatrics ward of Harlem Hospital into a makeshift home — and a makeshift family — for kids who were either too sick to go home, or who no longer had families to go home to.• Subscribe and listen to Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows wherever you get podcasts: bit.ly/3SrYt7s• Listen to the full episodes of Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows on YouTube: bit.ly/47GhQxY• Subscribe to see and hear more from WNYC on YouTube: bit.ly/3mzLqA4• Like this video and leave us a comment!Follow WNYC on social:• X (Twitter): twitter.com/wnyc• Instagram: instagram.com/wnyc• Facebook: facebook.com/wnyc• Threads: threads.net/@wnycVoices in the episode include:• Dr. Margaret Heagarty was a doctor who ran the pediatric department at Harlem Hospital Center for nearly 20 years. She died in 2022. Archival interview with Margaret Heagarty comes from the Columbia Center for Oral History.• Dr. Stephen Nicholas was a pediatrician at Harlem Hospital Center for two decades.• Maxine Frere, a lifelong Harlem resident, is a retired nurse who spent the entirety of her 40-year career at Harlem Hospital Center.• Monica Digrado was a pediatric nurse at Harlem Hospital Center.• Victor Reyes was born at Harlem Hospital Center and spent much of his childhood receiving treatment and care at the hospital’s pediatric AIDS unit.Blindspot is a co-production of The @HISTORY Channel and WNYC Studios, in collaboration with @thenation Magazine.Portrait of Maxine Frere by Kia LaBeija.Video by Kim Nowacki.A companion photography exhibit by Kia LaBeija featuring portraits from the series is on view through March 11 at The Greene Space at WNYC in New York City. The photography for Blindspot was supported by a grant from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
Mourning in America | Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows Ep 1 | Podcast WNYC 2024-01-21 | Valerie Reyes-Jimenez called it “The Monster.” That’s how some people described HIV and AIDS in the 1980s. Valerie thinks as many as 75 people from her block on New York City’s Lower East Side died. They were succumbing to an illness that was not recognized as the same virus that was killing young, white, gay men just across town in the West Village.At the same time, in Washington, D.C., Gil Gerald, a Black LGBTQ+ activist, saw his own friends and colleagues begin to disappear, dying out of sight and largely ignored by the wider world.In our first episode of Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows, we learn how HIV and AIDS was misunderstood from the start — and how this would shape the reactions of governments, the medical establishment and numerous communities for years to come.• Subscribe and listen to Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows wherever you get podcasts: bit.ly/3SrYt7s• Listen to the full episodes of Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows on YouTube: bit.ly/47GhQxY• Subscribe to see and hear more from WNYC on YouTube: bit.ly/3mzLqA4• Like this video and leave us a comment!Follow WNYC on social:• X (Twitter): twitter.com/wnyc• Instagram: instagram.com/wnyc• Facebook: facebook.com/wnyc• Threads: threads.net/@wnycVoices in the episode include:• Valerie Reyes-Jimenez is an HIV-positive woman, activist, and organizer with Housing Works. She saw the AIDS crisis develop from a nameless monster into a pandemic from her home on New York City’s Lower East Side.• Dr. Larry Altman was one of the first full-fledged medical doctors to work as a daily newspaper reporter. He started at The New York Times in 1969.• Dr. Anthony Fauci was director of the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease from 1984 to 2022. Known most recently for his work on Covid-19, Dr. Fauci was also a leading figure in the fight against HIV and AIDS.• Gil Gerald is a Black HIV and AIDS activist and writer, who co-founded the National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays.• Phill Wilson is the founder of the Black AIDS Institute, AIDS policy director for the city of Los Angeles at the height of the epidemic, and a celebrated AIDS activist in both the LGBTQ+ and Black communities since the early 1980s.• Dr. Margaret Heagarty ran the pediatrics department of Harlem Hospital Center for 22 years. She died in December 2022.Blindspot is a co-production of The @HISTORY Channel and WNYC Studios, in collaboration with @thenation Magazine.Portrait of Valerie Reyes-Jimenez by Kia LaBeija.Video by Kim Nowacki.
Introducing Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows | #podcast Trailer WNYC 2024-01-18 | Introducing Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows, a podcast series that tells stories from the early days of AIDS and the people who refused to stay out of sight.In this season of Blindspot, we travel back to a pivotal moment in the history of this country, and we trace how, decades before Covid-19, a virus tore through some of our most vulnerable communities while the wider world looked away. HIV and AIDs had arrived. And it wasn’t just gay men who were getting sick.Hosted by Kai Wright from Notes from America, we go to a pediatric ward in Harlem, a women’s prison in upstate New York, a drug market in the South Bronx, and the inner sanctum of the National Institutes of Health. And we meet people who demanded that they, and their illness, be seen: mothers and children, doctors and nurses, nuns and sex workers, and a woman who literally helped change the definition of AIDS.• Subscribe and listen to Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows wherever you get podcasts: bit.ly/3SrYt7s• Listen to the full episodes of Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows on YouTube: bit.ly/47GhQxY• Subscribe to see and hear more from WNYC on YouTube: bit.ly/3mzLqA4• Like this video and leave us a comment!Follow WNYC on social:• X (Twitter): twitter.com/wnyc• Instagram: instagram.com/wnyc• Facebook: facebook.com/wnyc• Threads: threads.net/@wnycBlindspot is a co-production of The @HISTORY Channel and WNYC Studios, in collaboration with @thenation Magazine.
WNYC and Apollo Theater present: MLK, The Inconvenient King WNYC 2024-01-15 | On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, join WNYC’s Kai Wright, Michael Hill and Brian Lehrer for the 18th annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in a live-streamed MLK special.In collaboration with the Apollo Theater and March on Washington Film Festival, this year’s event, “The Inconvenient King” examines the history of the word "woke" in the context of Dr. King’s work to build awareness, action and urgency around injustice and discrimination. Join Kai Wright, host of Notes from America — a WNYC Studios’ national call-in radio show and podcast about the unfinished business of our history and its grip on our future — along with Michael Hill, host of WNYC’s Morning Edition; Brian Lehrer, host of The Brian Lehrer Show; and WQXR host Terrance McKnight, creator and host of Every Voice with Terrance McKnight.They will be joined by:• Jonathan Eig, author of "King: A Life" • Juliet Hooker, author of "Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss"• Alvin Singh, great-great nephew of Lead Belly, producer of the documentary "Lead Belly: The Man Invented Rock & Roll"• Rahiel Tesfamariam, a youth minister• Leah and Richard Rothstein, co-authors of "JUST ACTION: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law" WQXR’s Terrance McKnight welcomes Afro-Indigenous Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and activist Mumu Fresh, who will perform throughout the program.
New York, Again | Imminent Danger Ep. 5: One Doctor and a Trail of Injured Women | NYC NOW Podcast WNYC 2023-11-11 | Imminent Danger is a five-part investigative podcast series from the WNYC newsroom and NYC NOW podcast about an OB/GYN who managed to get medical licenses in multiple states after health officials in New York declared him to be an “imminent danger” to the public and revoked his license decades earlier. CONTENT WARNING: The start of this episode includes a detailed telling of loss and the death of a child.Four years after Amy Lam died in 2016, court records show Dr. Thomas J. Byrne was involved in another incident at Harlem Hospital. A baby was allegedly lacerated down his back and buttocks during a cesarean-section. For the people whose cases were central to Byrne losing his license in New York more than 30 years ago, the fact that he is able to practice in the state again stirs up difficult memories and feelings of anger and betrayal. “They even said he'll never practice medicine again in New York state,” said John Henries, whose son was delivered by Byrne in the 1990s. “That's a lie.” In this episode, we examine what the record shows about New York’s decision to restore Byrne’s medical license. And share a discovery made along the way that may help explain at least one reason he has managed to continue practicing all these years.This series is supported by the Pulitzer Center. • Listen to the full episodes of Imminent Danger on YouTube: bit.ly/3tlERYn• Subscribe for more from WNYC on YouTube: bit.ly/3mzLqA4• Like this video and leave us a comment!Follow WNYC on social:• X (Twitter): twitter.com/wnyc• Instagram: instagram.com/wnyc• Facebook: facebook.com/wnyc• Threads: threads.net/@wnycNYC NOW is a podcast of the most up-to-date local news from across New York City and the region. With three updates a day, every weekday, you'll get breaking news, top headlines and in-depth reporting. It’s all the news you need to know right now to make New York work for you. Subscribe to NYC NOW wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3LzuerSIllustration by Golden Cosmos.Video by Kim Nowacki.
Loopholes | Imminent Danger Ep. 4: One Doctor and a Trail of Injured Women | NYC NOW Podcast WNYC 2023-11-04 | Imminent Danger is a five-part investigative podcast series from the WNYC newsroom and NYC NOW podcast about an OB/GYN who managed to get medical licenses in multiple states after health officials in New York declared him to be an “imminent danger” to the public and revoked his license decades earlier. After leaving the Oklahoma City area, Dr. Thomas J. Byrne started working at a new hospital a few hours away, in a rural area in the northeast corner of the state. It was there that Sue Ackerson came under his care for a hysterectomy and quickly noticed something wasn’t right after the surgery. She would be one of four women to file lawsuits against Dr. Byrne for incidents that occurred over the span of a year. Ackerson’s attorney would later discover that the medical director of the hospital was actively concerned about Byrne and kept a personal file on him. What is a hospital obligated to do with that kind of information? More than 30 years ago, Congress designed a system to help state medical boards and hospitals track physicians nationally, but patient safety experts say that system is full of loopholes — including ones that may help explain how Byrne’s record may have avoided some red flags.This series is supported by the Pulitzer Center. • Listen to the full episodes of Imminent Danger on YouTube: bit.ly/3tlERYn• Subscribe for more from WNYC on YouTube: bit.ly/3mzLqA4• Like this video and leave us a comment!Follow WNYC on social:• X (Twitter): twitter.com/wnyc• Instagram: instagram.com/wnyc• Facebook: facebook.com/wnyc• Threads: threads.net/@wnycNYC NOW is a podcast of the most up-to-date local news from across New York City and the region. With three updates a day, every weekday, you'll get breaking news, top headlines and in-depth reporting. It’s all the news you need to know right now to make New York work for you. Subscribe to NYC NOW wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3LzuerSIllustration by Golden Cosmos.Video by Kim Nowacki.
The Gatekeepers | Imminent Danger Ep. 3: One Doctor and a Trail of Injured Women | NYC NOW Podcast WNYC 2023-10-28 | Imminent Danger is a five-part investigative podcast series from the WNYC newsroom and NYC NOW podcast about an OB/GYN who managed to get medical licenses in multiple states after health officials in New York declared him to be an “imminent danger” to the public and revoked his license decades earlier. CONTENT WARNING: This episode includes a detailed description of medical injuries. Marquita Baird has kept a bootbox full of medical records on a shelf in her home in Shawnee, Oklahoma, for more than two decades in the hope that, someday, someone would ask about what happened after an OB-GYN named Thomas J. Byrne performed a hysterectomy on her in 1999. Shawnee was one of several areas where Byrne would practice in the years after losing his medical license in New York. In the third episode of our five-part series, we examine the responsibility that state medical boards have in keeping doctors with a history of bad outcomes from treating patients. And we speak with the executive directors of the New Mexico and Oklahoma medical boards, both of which granted Byrne licenses after he lost the ability to practice in New York.This series is supported by the Pulitzer Center. • Listen to the full episodes of Imminent Danger on YouTube: bit.ly/3tlERYn• Subscribe for more from WNYC on YouTube: bit.ly/3mzLqA4• Like this video and leave us a comment!Follow WNYC on social:• X (Twitter): twitter.com/wnyc• Instagram: instagram.com/wnyc• Facebook: facebook.com/wnyc• Threads: threads.net/@wnycNYC NOW is a podcast of the most up-to-date local news from across New York City and the region. With three updates a day, every weekday, you'll get breaking news, top headlines and in-depth reporting. It’s all the news you need to know right now to make New York work for you. Subscribe to NYC NOW wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3LzuerSIllustration by Golden Cosmos.Video by Kim Nowacki.
License Revoked | Imminent Danger Ep. 2: One Doctor and a Trail of Injured Women | NYC NOW Podcast WNYC 2023-10-21 | Imminent Danger is a five-part investigative podcast series from the WNYC newsroom and NYC NOW podcast about an OB/GYN who managed to get medical licenses in multiple states after health officials in New York declared him to be an “imminent danger” to the public and revoked his license decades earlier. CONTENT WARNING: This story is a difficult one. It deals with detailed accounts of medical injury, loss and grief.In the second episode of our five-part series, we go back in time to uncover why New York state revoked OB-GYN Dr. Thomas J. Byrne’s medical license in the first place. And we meet Donita Henry, who — back in 1990 — was pregnant with her first child and seeing Byrne for prenatal care in Upstate New York. Initially, she trusted Byrne. That would change after she gave birth. Henry was one of 11 patients — a group that includes five pairs of babies and their mothers — the state would later determine were harmed under the care of Byrne in two years. But within about a year of losing his license to practice in New York, he obtained one in another state. We meet the man who recommended that Byrne be allowed to continue practicing.This series is supported by the Pulitzer Center. • Subscribe to NYC NOW wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3LzuerS• Listen to the full episodes of Imminent Danger on YouTube: bit.ly/3tlERYn• Subscribe for more from WNYC on YouTube: bit.ly/3mzLqA4• Like this video and leave us a comment!Follow WNYC on social:• Twitter: twitter.com/wnyc• Instagram: instagram.com/wnyc• Facebook: facebook.com/wnycNYC NOW is a podcast of the most up-to-date local news from across New York City and the region. With three updates a day, every weekday, you'll get breaking news, top headlines and in-depth reporting. It’s all the news you need to know right now to make New York work for you.Illustration by Golden Cosmos.Video by Kim Nowacki.
We Dont Talk About Leonard: Episode 3 | A Podcast Miniseries from On the Media and ProPublica WNYC 2023-10-18 | The forces that reshaped the Supreme Court are quietly fomenting a revolution in the state courts. "We Don't Talk About Leonard" is a three-part investigative series from On the Media and @ProPublica that explores how one man built a money, influence and power machine to fuel a conservative takeover of America’s courts. In the third and final episode, Leonard Leo's vision for American society collides with American society. Leo is in Maine, a man in his castle, at the height of his powers. He has helped remake the American judicial system, and now he has a plan to do the same for society and politics — to make a Federalist Society for everything. ProPublica reporters Andrea Bernstein, Andy Kroll and Ilya Marritz drill even further into the fight to gain influence over state courts, and reveal what Leo and his allies are planning for the future.• Subscribe to On the Media wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3tzQ2Nh• Listen to the full episodes of "We Don't Talk About Leonard" on YouTube: bit.ly/46HKSNx• Subscribe for more from WNYC & WNYC Studios on YouTube: bit.ly/3mzLqA4• Like this video and leave us a comment!Subscribe to the On the Media newsletter (it's really good): wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodesFollow On the Media:• Twitter: twitter.com/onthemedia• Instagram: instagram.com/onthemedia• Threads: threads.net/@onthemedia• Facebook: facebook.com/OnTheMediaIllustration by Nate Sweitzer [natesweitzer.com]Video by Kim Nowacki
Wrongful Death | Imminent Danger Ep. 1: One Doctor and a Trail of Injured Women | NYC NOW Podcast WNYC 2023-10-14 | Imminent Danger is an investigative podcast series from the WNYC newsroom and NYC NOW podcast. It begins with the story of Amy Lam and the birth of her second child. The baby survived. Amy did not. When her family sued, they made a concerning discovery about one of the doctors who treated her. CONTENT WARNING: This story is a difficult one. It deals with detailed accounts of medical injury, loss and grief.In 2016, Amy Lam was at an exciting time in her life. She’d recently graduated from Columbia journalism school and was expecting her second child. But then tragedy struck. Shortly after giving birth at home, she was brought to Harlem Hospital where medical records show she bled to death under the care of several physicians.One of those doctors was Dr. Thomas J. Byrne, an OB-GYN with a concerning track record that spans more than three decades. In 1990, New York health officials declared Byrne an “imminent danger” to the public and stripped him of his medical license. And yet, Byrne is still seeing patients today. How does a doctor with a documented track record of medical negligence continue practicing for so long? Reporter Karen Shakerdge, along with WNYC’s investigative editor Christopher Werth, examine who’s responsible for ensuring patient safety.This series is supported by the Pulitzer Center. • Subscribe to NYC NOW wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3LzuerS• Listen to the full episodes of Imminent Danger on YouTube: bit.ly/3tlERYn• Subscribe for more from WNYC on YouTube: bit.ly/3mzLqA4• Like this video and leave us a comment!Follow WNYC on social:• Twitter: twitter.com/wnyc• Instagram: instagram.com/wnyc• Facebook: facebook.com/wnycNYC NOW is a podcast of the most up-to-date local news from across New York City and the region. With three updates a day, every weekday, you'll get breaking news, top headlines and in-depth reporting. It’s all the news you need to know right now to make New York work for you.Illustration by Golden Cosmos.Video by Kim Nowacki.
We Dont Talk About Leonard: Episode 2 | A Podcast Miniseries from On the Media and ProPublica WNYC 2023-10-13 | The forces that reshaped the Supreme Court are quietly fomenting a revolution in the state courts. "We Don't Talk About Leonard" is a three-part investigative series from On the Media and @ProPublica that explores how one man built a money, influence and power machine to fuel a conservative takeover of America’s courts. In the second episode, Leonard Leo realized that in order to generate conservative rulings, the Supreme Court needs the right kind of cases. ProPublica reporters Andrea Bernstein, Andy Kroll and Ilya Marritz investigate the machine that Leo built across the country to bring cases to the Supreme Court and fill vacant judgeships, and the web of nonprofits he’s created through which to funnel dark money into judicial races.• Subscribe to On the Media wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3tzQ2Nh• Listen to the full episodes of "We Don't Talk About Leonard" on YouTube: bit.ly/46HKSNx• Subscribe for more from WNYC & WNYC Studios on YouTube: bit.ly/3mzLqA4• Like this video and leave us a comment!Subscribe to the On the Media newsletter (it's really good): wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodesFollow On the Media:• Twitter: twitter.com/onthemedia• Instagram: instagram.com/onthemedia• Threads: threads.net/@onthemedia• Facebook: facebook.com/OnTheMediaIllustration by Nate Sweitzer [natesweitzer.com]Video by Kim Nowacki
We Dont Talk About Leonard: Episode 1 | A Podcast Miniseries from On the Media and ProPublica WNYC 2023-10-13 | The forces that reshaped the Supreme Court are quietly fomenting a revolution in the state courts. "We Don't Talk About Leonard" is a three-part investigative series from On the Media and @ProPublica that explores how one man built a money, influence and power machine to fuel a conservative takeover of America’s courts. In the first episode, Andrea Bernstein, Andy Kroll and Ilya Marritz investigate the background of the man who has played a critical role in the conservative takeover of America's courts — Leonard Leo. The episode takes us from Leo's humble roots in middle-class New Jersey, to a mansion in Maine where last year he hosted a fabulous party on the eve of the Supreme Court decision to tank “Roe.”• Subscribe to On the Media wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3tzQ2Nh• Listen to the full episodes of "We Don't Talk About Leonard" on YouTube: bit.ly/46HKSNx• Subscribe for more from WNYC & WNYC Studios on YouTube: bit.ly/3mzLqA4• Like this video and leave us a comment!Subscribe to the On the Media newsletter (it's really good): wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodesFollow On the Media:• Twitter: twitter.com/onthemedia• Instagram: instagram.com/onthemedia• Threads: threads.net/@onthemedia• Facebook: facebook.com/OnTheMediaIllustration by Nate Sweitzer [natesweitzer.com]Video by Kim Nowacki
We Dont Talk About Leonard | A Miniseries from On the Media and ProPublica | Trailer #podcast WNYC 2023-10-13 | Daily headlines remind us of how the conservative majority on the Supreme Court is moving fast and breaking precedents. But elsewhere, in the lower courts, where the media spotlight doesn’t shine as bright, unseen forces are fomenting a quiet revolution.A new three-part investigative series from On the Media and @ProPublicaexplores the money, influence and power machine that was built to fuel a conservative takeover of America’s courts. And it investigates the largely unknown man — Leonard Leo — at the center of it all, and how he plans to take what he did for the courts and change American politics.• Subscribe to On the Media wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3tzQ2Nh• Listen to the full episodes of "We Don't Talk About Leonard" on YouTube: bit.ly/46HKSNx• Subscribe for more from WNYC on YouTube: bit.ly/3mzLqA4• Like this video and leave us a comment!Subscribe to the On the Media newsletter (it's really good): wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodesFollow On the Media:• Twitter: twitter.com/onthemedia• Instagram: instagram.com/onthemedia• Threads: threads.net/@onthemedia• Facebook: facebook.com/OnTheMediaIllustration by Nate Sweitzer [natesweitzer.com]Video by Andrea Latimer
On the Map: St. Croix County, Wisconsin | Notes from America podcast WNYC 2023-09-25 | Welcome to St. Croix County, Wisconsin, birthplace of Big Drum. Which musical instrument is important in your culture? Tell me in the comments. On the Map is created and hosted by Kousha Navidar, the senior digital producer for the Notes from America podcast.• Subscribe to the WNYC YouTube channel: bit.ly/3mzLqA4• Subscribe to the Notes from America podcast: bit.ly/3C4TLEx• Twitter and Instagram: @noteswithkaiNotes from America with Kai Wright is a live public radio show and podcast about the unfinished business of our history and how we break its grip on our future. It airs every Sunday at 6 p.m. ET, on-air across the country, online at wnyc.org, and available wherever you get your podcasts.Sources:PBS: pbswisconsin.org/watch/tribal-histories/st-croix-ojibwe-history-5ufxdgNY Times Magazine: nytimes.com/2021/08/31/magazine/ojibwe-big-drum.htmlSt Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin: stcroixojibwe-nsn.gov/culture/who-we-areThe Ojibwa Dance Drum: Its History and Construction by Thomas Vennum, Jr.“The Ojibwe and Dakota War” by Robert Bell from University of Wisconsin: https://minds.wisconsin.edu/bitstream/handle/1793/55041/Bell2Spr11.pdf?sequence=1“Ojibwe Drum Songs” by Michael Loukinen: upnorthfilms.com/product/ojibwe-drum-songs#BigDrum #Ojibwe #Chippewa #History #USHistory #Wisconsin #Minnesota #Travel
On the Map: Diamond, Missouri | Notes from America podcast #podcast #blackhistory #americanhistory WNYC 2023-09-25 | 🎯Yes, this is actually where the dart landed. And yes, it was random.Welcome to Diamond, Missouri, birthplace of George Washington Carver.On the Map is created and hosted by Kousha Navidar, the senior digital producer for the Notes from America podcast.Notes from America with Kai Wright is a live public radio show and podcast about the unfinished business of our history and how we break its grip on our future. It airs every Sunday at 6 p.m. ET, on-air across the country, online at wnyc.org, and available wherever you get your podcasts.• Subscribe to the WNYC YouTube channel: bit.ly/3mzLqA4• Subscribe to the Notes from America podcast: bit.ly/3C4TLEx• Twitter and Instagram: @noteswithkaiSources:National Park Service: nps.gov/places/george-washington-carver-national-monument.htmNPR: npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123893832Iowa State University: https://www.cals.iastate.edu/george-washington-carver-day#Missouri #DiamondMissouri #JoplinMissouri #GeorgeWasingtonCarver #OnTheMap #History #NotesFromAmerica
On the Map: Gila, New Mexico | Notes from America #podcast #shorts #americanhistory #nvironment WNYC 2023-09-25 | Welcome to Gila, New Mexico, the Magna Carta of Federal Environmental Policy! What’s your favorite part of New Mexico? Tell me in the comments.On the Map is created and hosted by Kousha Navidar, the senior digital producer for the Notes from America podcast.• Subscribe to the WNYC YouTube channel: bit.ly/3mzLqA4• Subscribe to the Notes from America podcast: bit.ly/3C4TLEx• Twitter and Instagram: @noteswithkaiNotes from America with Kai Wright is a live public radio show and podcast about the unfinished business of our history and how we break its grip on our future. It airs every Sunday at 6 p.m. ET, on-air across the country, online at wnyc.org, and available wherever you get your podcasts.Sources:The Environmental Law Reporter: elr.info/sites/default/files/litigation/1.20085.htmNixon Photo: DocsTeach.orgGila River photo: defenders.org/sites/default/files/styles/meta_image/public/2020-09/Gila_Box%2C_Gila_River_x_Bonita_Creek_2.jpeg?itok=N3QYhvkXDepartment of Energy: ceq.doe.govScience Direct: sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/channelizationEarthJustice.Org: earthjustice.org/feature/national-environmental-policy-act-nepa-successes#Gila #NewMexico #ClimateChange #EPA
On the Map: Marion, Virginia | Notes from America #podcast #shorts #blackhistory #americanhistory WNYC 2023-09-25 | Welcome to Marion, Virginia, where Katherine Johnson got her first job before joining NASA. Do you know any other well-known people who started their careers as teachers?On the Map is created and hosted by Kousha Navidar, the senior digital producer for the Notes from America podcast.Notes from America with Kai Wright is a live public radio show and podcast about the unfinished business of our history and how we break its grip on our future. It airs every Sunday at 6 p.m. ET, on-air across the country, online at wnyc.org, and available wherever you get your podcasts.• Subscribe to the WNYC YouTube channel: bit.ly/3mzLqA4• Subscribe to the Notes from America podcast: bit.ly/3C4TLEx• Twitter and Instagram: @noteswithkaiSources:NASA:ntrs.nasa.gov/search?author=Johnson,%20Katherine%20Ghttp://SpaceGrant.Orgspacegrant.org/programs/service-award/johnsonWest Virginia State University:https://www.wvstateu.edu/about/history-and-traditions/katherine-johnson.aspx#:~:text=She%20was%20named%20Mathematician%20of,Old%20Dominion%20University%20in%20VirginiaHistorical Marker Database: hmdb.org/Photos6/688/Photo688591o.jpg?117202285200PM#Marion #Virginia #HiddenFigures #NASA #Space #OnTheMap
Finding place with your family | Notes from America with Kai Wright WNYC 2023-07-17 | After Connie Wang and her mother Qing Li unexpectedly find themselves as new immigrants in America, Connie learns how to be comfortable with not belonging through her mother. Connie tells us the story of their relationship through a series of trips she and her mother take together: vacations in their family’s ill gotten timeshare, visits back to China, a tour of Versaille and… a Magic Mike strip show is Las Vegas.
Affirmative action whats next? WNYC 2023-07-10 | The language of the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action has sparked a broader conversation about what it means to confront racism. This week: - Historian Ibram X. Kendi helps us understand the “race neutral” logic of the nation’s highest court. - Scholars Imani Perry and Dominique Baker lay out the role of elite institutions, and whom they really serve.Notes From America with Kai Wright is a show about the unfinished business of our history and how we break its grip on our future. Airing every Sunday at 6PM Eastern, on-air across the country, online at wnyc.org, and available wherever you get your podcasts. **Subscribe to the WNYC YouTube channel: bit.ly/3mzLqA4 **Subscribe to the Notes from America podcast: link.chtbl.com/notesfromamerica?sid=youtube **Twitter and Instagram: @noteswithkai **Voicemails: Record a message on your phone and email it to: notes@wnyc.org
Juneteenth: Live from Houston WNYC 2023-06-19 | Juneteenth commemorates the day when the last enslaved people in America were freed in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865. It was a full 2 years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Kai and team are live from Houston, taking your calls and talking to: - Zion Escobar, Executive Director at Houston Freedmen's Town Conservancy. She tells Kai the story of Freedman’s Town, the first town established by formerly enslaved Black Texans after receiving news of the Emancipation Proclamation on June 19, 1865. What did it mean for them to create their own version of freedom? - Lolade, a Nigerian singer-songwriter based in Houston. She performs and shares her special interest in the preservation of African and African-American musical traditions — and how these two cultures are merging in Houston on Juneteenth and beyond. Notes From America with Kai Wright is a show about the unfinished business of our history and how we break its grip on our future. Airing every Sunday at 6PM Eastern, on-air across the country, online at wnyc.org, and available wherever you get your podcasts. **Subscribe to the WNYC YouTube channel: bit.ly/3mzLqA4 **Subscribe to the Notes from America podcast: link.chtbl.com/notesfromamerica?sid=youtube **Twitter and Instagram: @noteswithkai **Voicemails: Record a message on your phone and email it to: notes@wnyc.org
Clarence Thomas: understanding the enigma of his ideology | Notes from America with Kai Wright WNYC 2023-05-22 | - Kai talks to Elie Mystal, Justice Correspondent for The Nation and Supreme Court scholar. - Kai talks to Corey Robin, Author of The Enigma of Clarence ThomasNotes From America with Kai Wright is a show about the unfinished business of our history and how we break its grip on our future. Airing every Sunday at 6PM Eastern, on-air across the country, online at wnyc.org, and available wherever you get your podcasts.**Subscribe to the WNYC YouTube channel: bit.ly/3mzLqA4**Subscribe to the Notes from America podcast: link.chtbl.com/notesfromamerica?sid=youtube **Twitter and Instagram: @noteswithkai**Voicemails: Record a message on your phone and email it to: notes@wnyc.org
Experiencing homelessness | Notes from America with Kai Wright WNYC 2023-05-15 | - Kai talks to Michael Kimmelman, Architecture Critic for The New York Times and lead reporter on the paper’s investigation of Houston’s response to homelessness- Kai talks to Ana Rausch, Vice President of the Coalition for the Homeless of Houston/Harris CountyNotes From America with Kai Wright is a show about the unfinished business of our history and how we break its grip on our future. Airing every Sunday at 6PM Eastern, on-air across the country, online at wnyc.org, and available wherever you get your podcasts.Thumbnail photograph: Marco Tambara, adapted**Subscribe to the WNYC YouTube channel: bit.ly/3mzLqA4**Subscribe to the Notes from America podcast: link.chtbl.com/notesfromamerica?sid=youtube **Twitter and Instagram: @noteswithkai**Voicemails: Record a message on your phone and email it to: notes@wnyc.org
What do Indigenous reparations look like? | Notes from America with Kai Wright WNYC 2023-05-08 | - Kai talks to Allison Herrera, Indigenous affairs reporter for KOSU, about the consequences of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative.- Kai talks to Joy Harjo, the 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate about her life-changing experience at an Indian boarding school and what role identity plays in her work.Notes From America with Kai Wright is a show about the unfinished business of our history and how we break its grip on our future. Airing every Sunday at 6PM Eastern, on-air across the country, online at wnyc.org, and available wherever you get your podcasts.Thumbnail photograph: Matika Wilbur**Subscribe to the WNYC YouTube channel: bit.ly/3mzLqA4**Subscribe to the Notes from America podcast: link.chtbl.com/notesfromamerica?sid=youtube **Twitter and Instagram: @noteswithkai**Voicemails: Record a message on your phone and email it to: notes@wnyc.org
The Money Talk | Notes from America with Kai Wright WNYC 2023-05-01 | - Kai talks to self-described “financial hype woman” Berna Anat about understanding money and improving personal finance for people of color. - Kai collaborates with WNYC reporters Nancy Solomon and Tracie Hunte as they tell the story of political activist Assata Shakur.Notes From America with Kai Wright is a show about the unfinished business of our history and how we break its grip on our future. Airing every Sunday at 6PM Eastern, on-air across the country, online at wnyc.org, and available wherever you get your podcasts.Thumbnail photograph: Karen Santos **Subscribe to the WNYC YouTube channel: bit.ly/3mzLqA4**Subscribe to the Notes from America podcast: link.chtbl.com/notesfromamerica?sid=youtube **Twitter and Instagram: @noteswithkai**Voicemails: Record a message on your phone and email it to: notes@wnyc.org
Introducing NYC NOW, a new podcast with all the local news you need to make New York work for you WNYC 2023-04-27 | Want to know what's happening in NYC right now? Introducing NYC NOW, a new daily #podcast about New York City and the region.NYC NOW delivers local news from WNYC and Gothamist every weekday morning, midday and evening. In less than 10 minutes, you'll get breaking news, top headlines and in-depth reporting delivered to your podcast feed three times a day.It's all the news you need to make New York work for you!• Subscribe to NYC NOW wherever you listen to podcasts: bit.ly/3LzuerS• Subscribe to our channel for more from WNYC on YouTube: bit.ly/3mzLqA4
Processing violence and fear | Notes from America with Kai Wright WNYC 2023-04-24 | - Kai talks to historian Carol Anderson about gun violence in the U.S. and the role fear plays in our nation’s history with guns.- Kai talks to producer Rahima Nasa about her reflections on Ramadan. Together, they respond to a listener message from the mailbag. Notes From America with Kai Wright is a show about the unfinished business of our history and how we break its grip on our future. Airing every Sunday at 6PM Eastern, on-air across the country, online at wnyc.org, and available wherever you get your podcasts.Thumbnail photograph: The Bertelsmann Foundation**Subscribe to the WNYC YouTube channel: bit.ly/3mzLqA4**Subscribe to the Notes from America podcast: link.chtbl.com/notesfromamerica?sid=youtube **Twitter and Instagram: @noteswithkai**Voicemails: Record a message on your phone and email it to: notes@wnyc.org
Little Richards road to global stardom | Notes from America with Kai Wright WNYC 2023-04-17 | - Kai speaks with writer Steve Zeitlin and poet Bob Holman about their project Across the Great Divide, which invites people to submit poetry that might help Americans communicate more productively with one another, at a time of intense political division. They invite our listeners to call in and participate.- Filmmaker Lisa Cortes shares the story of Little Richard, who invented both the sound and the style that would become 1960s rock and roll. She describes how he developed his own art inside an early 20th-century scene of Black, queer performers that have been largely erased from the history of rock and roll.Notes From America with Kai Wright is a show about the unfinished business of our history and how we break its grip on our future. Airing every Sunday at 6PM Eastern, on-air across the country, online at wnyc.org, and available wherever you get your podcasts.Thumbnail photograph: Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP**Subscribe to the WNYC YouTube channel: bit.ly/3mzLqA4**Subscribe to the Notes from America podcast: link.chtbl.com/notesfromamerica?sid=youtube **Twitter and Instagram: @noteswithkai**Voicemails: Record a message on your phone and email it to: notes@wnyc.org
La Brega: El Álbum — Xenia Rubinos Performs “Preciosa” (Live) WNYC 2023-03-21 | In the first single off of La Brega: El Álbum, Xenia Rubinos brings Rafael Hernandez’s bolero and unofficial Puerto Rican anthem — “Preciosa” — into the 21st century as minimalist alt-R&B. She performs the song live at Lounge Studios in New York City. The album explores classic songs that tell the complicated, beautiful story of Puerto Rico — through a series of covers by some of the most innovative Puerto Rican artists making music today. It drops April 11, 2023. La Brega: El Álbum is sponsored by Marguerite Casey Foundation.
Gina Prince-Bythewood talks representation in “The Woman King” | Notes from America with Kai Wright WNYC 2023-03-06 | - In continuation of our Black History Is Now series, host Kai Wright speaks with Gina Prince-Bythewood, director of the notable films “The Woman King” and “Love & Basketball,” that center Black people. They talk about her experience in Hollywood and making space for women of color in front of and behind the camera. - Kai speaks with Julieanna L. Richardson, founder of The HistoryMakers, an archive of hundreds of oral history videos made with Black Americans. They speak about how this archive is a continuum of Black history.Notes From America with Kai Wright is a show about the unfinished business of our history and how we break its grip on our future. Airing every Sunday at 6PM Eastern, on-air across the country, online at wnyc.org, and available wherever you get your podcasts.Thumbnail photograph: Scott Garfitt/Invision/AP**Subscribe to the WNYC YouTube channel: bit.ly/3mzLqA4**Subscribe to the Notes from America podcast: link.chtbl.com/notesfromamerica?sid=youtube **Twitter and Instagram: @noteswithkai**Voicemails: Record a message on your phone and email it to: notes@wnyc.org
The ‘Beautiful Experiments’ Left Out of Black History | Notes from America with Kai Wright WNYC 2023-02-26 | Host Kai Wright speaks with cultural historian and MacArthur fellow Saidiya Hartman, about her book “Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals,” which offers an intimate look into some of the Black lives that have been seemingly erased from the history books -- simply for not fitting into the box. Notes From America with Kai Wright is a show about the unfinished business of our history and how we break its grip on our future. Airing every Sunday at 6PM Eastern, on-air across the country, online at wnyc.org, and available wherever you get your podcasts.Thumbnail photograph: Saidiya Hartman**Subscribe to the WNYC YouTube channel: bit.ly/3mzLqA4**Subscribe to the Notes from America podcast: link.chtbl.com/notesfromamerica?sid=youtube **Twitter and Instagram: @noteswithkai**Voicemails: Record a message on your phone and email it to: notes@wnyc.org
How Misty Copeland Went From Different to Special | Notes from America with Kai Wright WNYC 2023-02-23 | ...
How Misty Copeland Changed the Face of Ballet | Notes from America with Kai Wright WNYC 2023-02-20 | - Host Kai Wright speaks with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an African American Studies professor at Northwestern University, about the significance of her field and her work that is being removed from the College Board’s A.P. course curriculum. - In continuation of our Black History Is Now series, ballet dancer Misty Copeland talks about her upbringing, the mentorship that shaped her and the future she envisions for Black ballerinas. Notes From America with Kai Wright is a show about the unfinished business of our history and how we break its grip on our future. Airing every Sunday at 6PM Eastern, on-air across the country, online at wnyc.org, and available wherever you get your podcasts. Thumbnail photograph: Misty Copeland **Subscribe to the WNYC YouTube channel: bit.ly/3mzLqA4 **Subscribe to the Notes from America podcast: https://link.chtbl.com/notesfromameri... **Twitter and Instagram: @noteswithkai **Voicemails: Record a message on your phone and email it to: notes@wnyc.org
What it can mean to be an immigrant | Notes from America with Kai Wright WNYC 2023-02-13 | - Filling in for host Kai Wright, Senior Digital Producer Kousha Navidar shares a first date story that informed his coming of age as an immigrant in America. - Sabaa Tahir, author of the National Book Award-winning novel “All My Rage,” joins Kousha and responds to live calls about how the experience of being an immigrant can change over time.Notes From America with Kai Wright is a show about the unfinished business of our history and how we break its grip on our future. Airing every Sunday at 6PM Eastern, on-air across the country, online at wnyc.org, and available wherever you get your podcasts.Thumbnail photograph: Sabaa Tahir **Subscribe to the WNYC YouTube channel: bit.ly/3mzLqA4**Subscribe to the Notes from America podcast: link.chtbl.com/notesfromamerica?sid=youtube **Twitter and Instagram: @noteswithkai**Voicemails: Record a message on your phone and email it to: notes@wnyc.org
Black Music’s Most Memorable Moments With Emil Wilbekin | Notes from America with Kai Wright WNYC 2023-02-07 | ...
Emil Wilbekin on Black Music’s Memorable Moments | Notes from America with Kai Wright WNYC 2023-02-06 | - Kai talks to Princeton University historian Kevin Kruse about the many myths in our national story and what new distortions politicians are attempting to create today.- To kick off our Black History Is Now series, Kai talks to Emil Wilbekin, one of VIBE Magazine’s founding editors, about key moments in Black music from Soul Train to the Grammys.Notes From America with Kai Wright is a show about the unfinished business of our history and how we break its grip on our future. Airing every Sunday at 6PM Eastern, on-air across the country, online at wnyc.org, and available wherever you get your podcasts.Thumbnail photograph: Emil Wilbekin**Subscribe to the WNYC YouTube channel: bit.ly/3mzLqA4**Subscribe to the Notes from America podcast: link.chtbl.com/notesfromamerica?sid=youtube **Twitter and Instagram: @noteswithkai**Voicemails: Record a message on your phone and email it to: notes@wnyc.org
