by Mufson, Michael | Feb 14, 2021 | It's Monumental Resources, Podcast Episodes
The white nationalist ideas of Madison Grant influenced Congress in the 1920s, leaders in Nazi Germany, and members of the Trump administration. This week, we share an episode we loved from It’s Been A Minute with Sam Sanders that explores a throughline of white...
by Mufson, Michael | Feb 14, 2021 | Documentaries, It's Monumental Resources, Podcast Episodes
In 2014, Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, was killed on a sidewalk in Staten Island, N.Y., when a male police officer put him in a chokehold during a misdemeanor arrest. Filmmaker Deirdre Fishel, who was working just a few blocks away, remembers asking a female...
by Mufson, Michael | Feb 11, 2021 | It's Monumental Resources, Podcast Episodes
Black Lives Matter was just nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize—so this week, host Brittany Packnett Cunningham sits down with co-founder of the Black Lives Matter organization Opal Tometi. How did the movement go from being seen as radical to more widely accepted? And...
by Mufson, Michael | Feb 8, 2021 | It's Monumental Resources, Literature & Poetry, Podcast Episodes
Throughout April, we’ve been telling stories that coincide with the census — the one time every decade everyone in the U.S. is asked to think about their racial identity—whether they like it or not. And in each of our episodes, we’ve led with a question:...
by Mufson, Michael | Feb 8, 2021 | It's Monumental Resources, Podcast Episodes
One of the country’s greatest writers has a new book out, and it took almost a century to get published. Zora Neale Hurston’s “Barracoon” is based on her conversations with Oluale Kossola, the man believed to be one of the last people stolen,...
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...
