L.A. Chinatown: From Old Chinatown to New Chinatown
In the early 1930s, the old Chinatown of Los Angeles disappeared to make way for the new Union Station Passenger Terminal. This episode examines the history of that eradication and displacement alongs...
14 Jun 202235min
L.A. Chinatown: Exclusion and the Struggles for Inclusion
California played a fundamental role in legislating Chinese exclusion in the last decades of the 19th century. This episode explores the history of such exclusionary racism, as well as the ways in whi...
7 Jun 202235min
L.A. Chinatown: The Memory of a Massacre
A dark stain on Los Angeles, the horrific massacre of Chinese men and boys in Chinatown still reverberates across community and memory. A movement to memorialize the victims has taken root through civ...
31 Mai 202238min
L.A. Chinatown: What is Chinatown?
As an idea, as a place, even as a single structure, Chinatown has meant and means different things to different people at different times. The first episode of L.A. Chinatown explores these multiple m...
24 Mai 202226min
L.A. Chinatown: Prologue
L.A.’s Chinatown is a bustling cultural and business hub, legendary in cinematic history and popular with tourists and locals alike. Yet below its surface lies a challenging history – of racial discri...
10 Mai 20223min
The West on Fire: Climbing the Tower
For over a century, the U.S. Forest Service has posted fire lookouts at the tops of mountains and trees: men and women who gaze out at the horizon, watching and waiting for signs of smoke, and serving...
19 Okt 202124min
The West On Fire: Incarceration and Firefighting
There’s a good chance that the firefighter saving you from a wildfire is actually an incarcerated person. As of summer 2021, about 1,600 work at conservation camps, also called fire camps, in Californ...
12 Okt 202137min
The West On Fire: Smoke and Farmworkers
Wildfire smoke can spread far beyond the fire itself, and the toxic pollutants carried in the smoke can be deadly. In this episode, we investigate the harm posed by wildfire smoke and exactly what hap...
5 Okt 202132min
