by Mufson, Michael | Feb 8, 2021 | It's Monumental Resources, Podcast Episodes
In 1933, faced with a housing shortage, the federal government began a program explicitly designed to increase — and segregate — America’s housing stock. Author Richard Rothstein says the housing programs begun under the New Deal were tantamount to a...
by Mufson, Michael | Feb 8, 2021 | It's Monumental Resources, Podcast Limited Series
A podcast that takes a look back in history at a time of great promise and great disappointment for Black Americans who dreamed of and struggled for the promise of community and full citizenship. Listen on the Website
by Mufson, Michael | Feb 8, 2021 | It's Monumental Resources, Podcast Episodes
For the past year, Lois Beckett [@loisbeckett], senior reporter at The Guardian US, has been showing up at white nationalist rallies, taking their pictures, writing down what they say. And she finds herself thinking: How did we get here? How did her beat as a...
by Mufson, Michael | Feb 8, 2021 | It's Monumental Resources, Podcast Episodes
Four years ago this week, on July 17, 2014, Eric Garner died in Staten Island at the hands of a New York City police officer. We probably wouldn’t have known if it hadn’t been for a cellphone video that captured his arrest, the excessive force that killed...
by Mufson, Michael | Feb 8, 2021 | It's Monumental Resources, Podcast Episodes
The Code Switch Podcast, Episode 1: Can We Talk About Whiteness? At long last — the first episode of the Code Switch podcast! We decided to start off with a question we’ve been fixated on over the past few months: Why is it so hard to talk about whiteness?...
