Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
The Land of Our Fathers, Part 2
Sat, 12 Oct 2019
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 2019
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 2019
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 2019
Black music, forged in captivity, became the sound of complete artistic freedom. It also became the ...
The Economy That Slavery Built
Sat, 31 Aug 2019
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 2019
America was founded on the ideal of democracy. Black people fought to make it one.“1619” is a Ne...
Introducing ‘1619’
Sat, 17 Aug 2019
In August of 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of V...