A tornado outbreak carves a treacherous path across the southern U.S., a former Starbucks manager is awarded $25.6 million in damages by a jury after she said the company fired her for being white in the wake of a racially-charged 2018 incident, the parents of a high school student who took his own life last year detail the “sextortion” he faced online, Bela ... Show More
May 2021
The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street
May 30, 1921. Dick Rowland, a Black teenager, works as a shoeshine in the predominantly white downtown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. On his break, he goes into a nearby office building to use the restroom, and gets on the elevator. Sarah Page, a white teenager, is the elevator operator. Wh ... Show More
26m 16s
May 2022
Sway: 'Fear and Panic Are Bedfellows' in Ukraine
Today we're bringing you an episode from our friends at Sway about the war in Ukraine and the challenges of conflict-zone reporting. Clarissa Ward has had, as she puts it, a “long and very complicated relationship” with Russia. The chief international correspondent for CNN, she h ... Show More
42m 51s
Mar 2020
The Oprah Show on Race In America - A 25-Year Look Back
From January 17, 2011: To commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, Oprah looks back at “The Oprah Winfrey Show” episodes that centered around race. The moments include a visit to Forsyth County, GA, where no black person had lived since 1912, the reunion of seven of the ... Show More
34m 3s
Apr 2024
O.J. Simpson : le secret dans la tombe
OJ Simpson est mort le 10 avril 2024 à Las Vegas, à l’âge de 76 ans, laissant, derrière lui, l’image d’une figure très controversée de l’histoire américaine. Pour comprendre, il faut remonter trente ans en arrière. En 1994. Cette année-là, on inaugurait le tunnel sous la Manche, ... Show More
23m 46s
Feb 2023
14. 12 Months On: President Putin’s Next Steps?
Ukrainecast comes together with Putin, the BBC Sounds and Radio 4 podcast which examines the life, times, motives and modus operandi of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. Returning to the show are three lifelong Kremlin-watchers to cast ahead and speculate on just how this war might d ... Show More
29m 20s