Action Speaks: What’s Race Got to Do With It? - Action Speaks, from WRNI, looks at contemporary issues through the lens of history, using under-appreciated 20th-century dates that have changed America. Host Marc Joel Levitt and guest panelists discuss the 2000 Census where, for the first time, individuals could identify themselves as mixed-race citizens of the United States, blurring “traditional” racial and demographic lines in the U.S. and the world.
COST: FREE;  LENGTH: 58:50;  AVAILABLE: CD, PRX,CONTENT DEPOT

Elizabeth and Roger Wilkins: On Hope and Obama
Civil rights pioneer Roger Wilkins is joined by his daughter Elizabeth to discuss their reactions to Obama’s election.
Roger, 76, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, historian, and teacher.  Elizabeth was field manager for the Obama campaign in Michigan. They’re interviewed by host Mike Cuthbert. From AARP’s Prime Time Radio series.
AVAILABLE: CD, Content Depot, mp3 downloads, and Podcast; LENGTH: 59:00; COST: FREE

What’s the Word? Black History Month Specials

Texts of Resistance
How did slaves resist their oppression? Three works explore what it means to resist and to survive.
* John Bugg talks about an eighteenth-century slave narrative, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah     Equiano;
* Russ Castronovo tells us about Frederick Douglass’s novella, The Heroic Slave;
* Natasha Barnes discusses the novel The Known World by Edward P. Jones.
AVAILABLE on CD, PRX, and CONTENT DEPOT; LENGTH: 29:00;  COST: FREE

W. E. B. Du Bois
Considered by many the most important African American leader of the early twentieth century, sociologist, historian, author, teacher, and activist W. E. B. Du Bois had a profound effect on the way we talk about race.
* David Levering Lewis speaks about Du Bois’s early life and the years that led up to the publication of his groundbreaking The Souls of Black Folk;
* Marlon B. Ross explores the historical events that shaped Du Bois’s book and shares memorable passages;
* Cheryl Townsend Gilkes discusses the book’s continuing influence.
AVAILABLE on CD, PRX, and CONTENT DEPOT; LENGTH: 29:00;  COST: FREE