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  • Faith & Reason
    THE BLACK CHURCH: Premieres This Week on PBS
    February 16, 2021
    | Reverend Dr. Susan K. Williams Smith

    This week PBS premiers a moving four-hour series The Black Church: This is Our Story. This is Our Song , tracing the 400-year-old story of the Black church in America from its bedrock role in the resilience and survival of Black Americans

  • Arts & Culture
    Happy 250th Birthday Beethoven
    March 30, 2020
    Following the Ninth: In the Footsteps of Beethoven’s Final Symphony
  • Poetry Month
    'General James Bethune and John Bethune Introduce Blind Tom'
    April 10, 2017
    | Tyehimba Jess
    Tyehimba Jess has just won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry!
  • Arts & Culture
    The House Sinatra Lived In
    December 11, 2015
    | Michael Winship
    There were many times when, despite all the stories about his ill temper and bad behavior, Sinatra wore a progressive, liberal heart on his sleeve.
  • Top 10 Labor Day Songs
    September 4, 2015
    | Peter Rothberg
    In honor of Labor Day, here’s a stab at the impossible task of naming the best songs ever written about working people.
  • Activism
    Patti Smith’s Summer of Rebellion
    July 4, 2015
    | John Nichols
    The musician has electrified Europe over the past several weeks with a series of concerts that have been as politically bold as they have been musically rich.
  • Arts & Culture
    John Legend and Common Say 'Selma' Battle Lives on in Voting Restrictions and Mass Incarceration
    February 23, 2015
    | Katie Rose Quandt
    The "Glory" musicians and other Academy Award winners used the pedestal to promote social justice.
  • Arts & Culture
    Fighting Police Violence Through Music
    December 18, 2014
    | Katie Rose Quandt
    Who are the new Dylans, Public Enemys, Simones and De La Rochas of 2014?
  • Economy & Work
    A Musician's Take on a Tough Economy
    June 19, 2014
    | Jeremy Gantz
    "You have to code-switch a lot. One day you’re the guest of honor, the next day you’re a peasant."
  • Folk Music and Movements: The Tradition Continues
    May 28, 2014
    | Peter Dreier and Dick Flacks
    For over a century, American activists have employed folk music as an instrument of change.


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