Born to a single mother on welfare, Thomas Wilkins grew up to become one of the few remarkable African American conductors leading a major orchestra — the celebrated Omaha Symphony. Continue »
Monday, February 21, at 9:00 p.m.
Tayari Jones (New York Times bestselling author, most recently of the novel An American Marriage) helps us to celebrate Morrison, the American master who died in 2019. Morrison’s novels, including Beloved, Jazz and Song of Solomon, have become an indelible part of the American canon. Continue »
Friday, February 25, at 7:00 p.m. on WPSU-FM
Interviews with people who were there at key moments in black and civil rights history Continue »
Friday, February 18, at 7:00 p.m. on WPSU-FM
Hear the life story of Ida B. Wells, a powerful investigative journalist who went on to publish the first major study of domestic terrorism against African Americans that came to be known as lynching. Continue »
Friday, February 11, at 7:00 p.m. on WPSU-FM
This history special traces the development of racial, and racist ideas, from the ancient world – when “there was no notion of race,” as historian Nell Irvin Painter puts it – up to the founding of the United States as fundamentally a nation of and for white people. Continue »
Friday, February 4, at 7:00 p.m. on WPSU-FM
Dr. Leslie King-Hammond on craft, culture, and bead artist Joyce J. Scott. Continue »
Philip Simmons (1912–2009) was a renowned blacksmith in Charleston, SC. Enticed by the sparks flying in a blacksmith shop he passed on his way to school, he became an apprentice at the early age of 13. Continue »
Eric Ian Farmer & Josh Troup perform Eric’s song “When You [Side]Walked Into the Room” at Penn’s Cave and Wildlife Park. Continue »
Carl McNair tells the story of his brother Ronald, an African American kid in the 1950s who set his sights on the stars. Continue »
Wendell Scott was the first African American inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame. His son, Frank, remembers what it took for his father to cross the finish line at racetracks throughout the South in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Continue »
Khalid el-Hakim’s Black History 101 Mobile Museum is collection of more than 7,000 items highlights African American history from the transatlantic slave trade to present day. Continue »
Find out about more than a century of history that still exists today in historic Black churches in central Pennsylvania. Continue »
The daughter of football legend Gene Washington uncovers how the first fully-integrated college football team in America changed the face of the game forever. Continue »
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