Sputnik Monroe: The Wrestler Who Desegregated Memphis
Before the Civil Rights Movement's major victories of the 1960s, a pro wrestler named Sputnik Monroe was already integrating Memphis, Tennessee one arena at a time. Born Roscoe Brumbaugh in Dodge City...
15 Apr 29min
The Lampshade: A Post-Katrina New Orleans Mystery
After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans was a city of wreckage, rumors, and strange things washing up where they didn’t belong. When transplant Skip Henderson buys a battered table lamp at a post-storm r...
8 Apr 32min
The Lieutenant Governor Who Shot a Journalist: The Narciso Gonzalez Assassination
In 1903, South Carolina’s most powerful journalist is gunned down in broad daylight, and the shooter is the lieutenant governor. Narciso Gonzalez, editor of The State newspaper in Columbia, spent yea...
1 Apr 30min
The Fall of Latoya Cantrell
New Orleans is no stranger to political scandal, but the federal case against Mayor LaToya Cantrell isn’t a classic bribes-and-kickbacks story. It’s a story about a relationship, power, and the allege...
25 Mar 29min
The Alamo Myth: What Really Happened in 1836
Most people know the phrase “Remember the Alamo.” Fewer know what actually happened there or why Texans still fight over it. Jed Lipinski talks with journalist and historian Bryan Burrough, co-author...
18 Mar 31min
You Might Like: Murder at The U - A suspect awaiting trial and a murder still unsolved
Murder at the U follows the murder of Bryan Pata, senior defensive tackle for the University of Miami. More than a decade later, with Bryan’s family desperately searching for answers, the case found i...
13 Mar 37min
Goat Castle: Murder, Myth, and Jim Crow Justice in Natchez
In 2012, historian Karen Cox is digging through the Mississippi State Archives when an archivist tells her, “If you want to know about Natchez, you need to look at Goat Castle.” Cox expects a ghost st...
11 Mar 32min
Charleston, 2015: Dylann Roof and Emanuel AME
At a 2024 House Judiciary oversight hearing, an exchange about racially motivated violence goes viral after FBI chief Kash Patel appears to stumble over a question about the 2015 Charleston church mas...
4 Mar 33min
