A Juneteenth Special: History, Music, Black Politics Then and Now; and an Anti-Racist Reading List
Coming up on today's show -- hosted by Kai Wright, the host of the WNYC podcast The United States of Anxiety:Â
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Dr. Daina Ramey Berry, professor of history (and incoming chair of the department) at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of several books, including A Black Women's History of the United States (Beacon Press, 2020), talks about the history of Juneteenth, and takes calls from listeners on their family history of emancipation.
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Terrance McKnight, evening host of WQXR, brings some of the music he's listening to on Juneteenth and tells us what to expect for his evening special on WQXR.
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Adam Serwer, staff writer at The Atlantic talks about how to be anti-racist now and the past and future of Black politics.
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Kevin Young, poet, director of the NYPL Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New Yorker poetry editor and the author of Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News (Graywolf Press, 2017) comes on to speak about the Schomburg Center's Black Liberation reading list for young readers to celebrate Juneteenth.
