Red Flags: Descendants
In the final episode of Harlem and Moscow: Red Flags we’re taking the conversation to the present day with the daughter of the 1932 trip organizer Louise Thompson Patterson. Playwright Alle Mims sits ...
18 Apr 202436min
Red Flags: Sex and the Soviet Union
In this episode of Harlem and Moscow: Red Flags we get hot, heavy and a little messy. Host Sam Riddell talks to experts about the hook-ups and heartbreaks of the 1932 trip to the Soviet Union. We lear...
11 Apr 202437min
Return Home to Harlem
In a desperate attempt to get to Langston Hughes, Dorothy West decides to propose marriage. Louise Thompson tries to talk her out of it and shares the reality of what it means to be in love with a man...
8 Apr 202423min
Russian Reckoning
The group of Harlem Renaissance actors and artists return to Moscow moving from the Grand Hotel to a small hostel. Henry Lee Moon tells Langston Hughes that he thinks the film has been sabotaged by...
8 Apr 202430min
Red Flags: Black Communists
In this episode of Harlem and Moscow: Red Flags, host Michael Harriot is talking to experts about the conditions in America circa the 1930s that made the Soviet Union and Communism very appealing to B...
4 Apr 202428min
Russian Reality Check
The production of the film “Black And White” gets underway IN Moscow with a less than stellar first rehearsal that is only saved by the star of the Harlem Renaissance performers, Sylvia Garner. La...
1 Apr 202428min
When in Moscow
Dorothy West and the Harlem Renaissance artists and activists get settled into the Grand Hotel and enjoy the lavish luxuries the Soviets have to offer. Caviar anyone? While exploring Moscow, Mildre...
1 Apr 202422min
Red Flags: The Real People of the Harlem Renaissance
In this episode of Harlem and Moscow: Red Flags, host Panama Jackson is talking to experts about the people of the Harlem Renaissance who went on this trip to Moscow back in 1932. We learn more about ...
28 Mar 202437min
