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Tuesday Podcast 10/23/12

October 23, 2012 9:23 am by: Mike Lee

Photo by Michael Lee.

We've got two pretty interesting pieces of radio for you and/or your ears today, as we do our best to provide you with the quality O'Dark programming you love even as the fall membership drive wages all around us. The big pod is surprisingly Halloween-free today, despite being cast in October. We're nothing if not mysterious around here. First up is Life Without Parole: The Case of Charles Lewis Jr., which looks at the sentencing of Lewis, who was found guilty of a murder committed when he was not quite fourteen years old. Really compelling and thought provoking stuff there. And then we'll bring you a long-form interview from our own Rebecca McInroy (really, all of Rebecca's interviews are long-form because she just won't stop talking once she starts). Rebecca (Ms. McInroy if you're nasty) will be chatting it up with comedian and filmmaker Negin Farsad, director of the new movie The Muslims are Coming....
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In Black America

In Black America Podcast: The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America – Part I

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. presents part one of a two-part discussion with Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and the Making of Modern Urban America. Following the 1890 census, the first to measure the generation of African Americans born after slavery, crime statistics, new migration and immigration trends, and symbolic references to America as the promised land of opportunity were woven into a cautionary tale about the exceptional threat black people posed to modern urban society. Excessive arrest rates and overrepresentation in northern prisons were seen by...
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