Introducing ‘1619’
Source: 1619 In August of 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia. America was not yet…
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Episode 1: The Fight for a True Democracy
Source: 1619 America was founded on the ideal of democracy. Black people fought to make it one. “1619” is a New York Times audio series…
Episode 2: The Economy That Slavery Built
Source: 1619 The institution of slavery turned a poor, fledgling nation into a financial powerhouse, and the cotton plantation was America’s first big business. Behind…
Episode 3: The Birth of American Music
Source: 1619 Black music, forged in captivity, became the sound of complete artistic freedom. It also became the sound of America. On today’s episode: Wesley…
Episode 4: How the Bad Blood Started
Source: 1619 Black Americans were denied access to doctors and hospitals for decades. From the shadows of this exclusion, they pushed to create the nation’s…
Episode 5: The Land of Our Fathers, Part 1
Source: 1619 More than a century and a half after the promise of 40 acres and a mule, the story of black land ownership in…
Episode 5: The Land of Our Fathers, Part 2
Source: 1619 The Provosts, a family of sugar-cane farmers in Louisiana, had worked the same land for generations. When it became harder and harder to…
STALKED: Dorothy Jane Scott // Cynthia Jane Anderson
Source: Crime Junkie Even though they’re strangers who’ve never met, two women suffer through similar patterns of fear and intimidation, praying for help that doesn’t…
AUDIO EXTRA: Bizarre Crime History
Source: Crime Junkie Crime Junkie OFFICIALLY turns 3 today, and we decided to give ourselves and YOU a little birthday gift…we’re still the same pod,…
MURDERED: Gina Hall
Source: Crime Junkie A young college student never comes home after a night of dancing. All the evidence suggests she’s been murdered, but if her…