Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Khalil Gibran Muhammad appears in the following:

Race and Racism Through the Lens of an Interracial Friendship

Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Ben Austen talk about their new podcast, 'Some Of My Friends Are....'

Since '1619': Sugar and Slavery

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

How sugar fueled the slavery trade.

The 13th and Criminal Justice

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

A new documentary draws a straight line from slavery to incarceration.

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President Obama's Criminal Justice Legacy

Monday, August 15, 2016

Coming to the end of his term, President Obama has been addressing race and criminal justice more directly.

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Your Family's Great Migration North

Monday, April 13, 2015

A new exhibition at MoMA focuses on The Great Migration from the Jim Crow South to Harlem in the 1930s. We heard from listeners about their personal family connections to the movement.

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Black Americans, By the Numbers

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Monique Morris, co-founder of the National Black Women’s Justice Institute and the author of Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-first Century, shares the good news and the bad contained in the statistics on black Americans. She is joined by Dr Khalil Gibran Muhammad director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at The New York Public Library and the author of The Condemnation of Blackness, who also wrote the introduction to Morris' book.

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2014: Dreams for NYC Inspired by MLK

Monday, January 20, 2014

What is Martin Luther King's impact on New York City today? Brian Lehrer plays highlights from this year's event at the Apollo Theater, co-hosted by Farai Chideya.

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2013: Malcom, Martin, and Medgar

Monday, January 21, 2013

Explore the legacies of three very different civil rights icons; listen to audio from this year's event at the Brooklyn Museum. 

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The Civil Rights Movement Comes of Age

Monday, February 20, 2012

On Monday, ground will be broken on the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. This $500 million project is just one of the many being erected in major cities dedicated to African American history and the civil rights movement: Atlanta, Jackson and Charleston all have projects in the works. These projects mark an emerging era of scholarship and interest in the history of the civil rights movement, providing the public with new insights.

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