Monterey Park: The Making of America’s First Suburban Chinatown
A mass shooting in Monterey Park, California – on the eve of Lunar New Year – sent shockwaves through the predominantly Asian American ethnoburb and the Asian American community nationwide. The toll o...
26 Jan 202319min
Living With And Learning From Estrangement
Estrangement isn’t linear. For those who have severed ties or been cut off, it can be necessary, empowering, devastating and confounding—all at once. A recent series from WNYC’s Death, Sex & Money po...
23 Jan 202347min
The Not-So-Sunny Side of Louis Armstrong’s Legacy
What made Louis Armstrong’s music so groundbreaking? And after he broke that ground, why were later generations of Black people reluctant to embrace him? From his renditions of “On The Sunny Side Of ...
19 Jan 202319min
The Legacy of MLK Jr. Is To Be Young, Gifted and Black
How does Martin Luther King Jr.’s generation of young, gifted, and Black people inspire today’s changemakers and their ideas for how to achieve racial justice? The Apollo has a decades-long tradition ...
16 Jan 202358min
New Congress, New Consequences
From near-fisticuffs on the House floor to Kevin McCarthy’s concessions to win the gavel, the chaotic start for the 118th Congress has finally settled – with consequences for us all. In his bid for s...
12 Jan 202333min
The Future of Work As We Know It
The Great Resignation. Quiet quitting. These concepts allegedly defined the way we worked last year. Will anything change in 2023? Journalist Anne Helen Petersen, co-author of Out of Office: The Big P...
9 Jan 202331min
Faith Ringgold Creates Space for Black Americans
Faith Ringgold’s art is an intimate dialogue and debate between generations of Black women, stretching from the formerly enslaved to today. Producer Rahima Nasa takes host Kai Wright to an exhibit dis...
5 Jan 202318min
How Afrofuturism Redefines Our Past
Afrofuturism is an old idea that’s reaching new people. Hollywood production designer Hannah Beachler walks us through some fantastical, imagined paths to Black liberation. There is a cosmic vision of...
2 Jan 202332min
