How America Got This Way Pt. 3

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How America Got This Way Pt. 3- Draft History. A piece from 1995 based on an evening spent with the Sons of Confederate Veterans in Natchez Mississippi which nearly ended in a fistfight over the meaning of the Constitution.

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Charlottesville, Virginia 2017 > Natchez, Mississippi 1995

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Charlottesville:  “What happens to a dream deferred” wrote Langston Hughes in the poem Harlem.  Hughes was referring to the frustrations of African-American life 90 years after the Emancipation Proclamation.  Does the deferred Dream explode, the poet asked. What happens, ironically when the deferred dream is that of white supremacy and the Confederacy risen? Does it also explode? Charlottesville is the latest detonation in a process that has been left unaddressed for decades, for more than a century and a half really.  Arguably since the founding of the United States. This piece from the FRDH archive is from 1995 is based on an evening I spent with the Sons of Confederate Veterans in Natchez Mississippi which nearly ended in a fistfight over the meaning of the Constitution.

Hughes poem in full:

“What happens to a dream deferred?
      Does it dry up
      like a raisin in the sun?
      Or fester like a sore—
      And then run?
      Does it stink like rotten meat?
      Or crust and sugar over—
      like a syrupy sweet?
      Maybe it just sags
      like a heavy load.
      Or does it explode?”

 

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Clarksdale Mississippi 1995

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Clarksdale Mississippi 1995- Draft history. Race in America. A piece from 1995 reported from the Mississippi Delta

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FROM KABUL TO KENT Pt. 2

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Kabul to Kent Pt. 2- History on the move: the story of Ali, his two-year long journey from Afghanistan and his new life in the UK

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FROM KABUL TO KENT, pt 2

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From Kabul to Kent. History on the move: documentary about Ali, who left Afghanistan as 14 year old and snuck into Britain on a Eurotunnel freight train and today holds a masters in International Relations

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FROM KABUL TO KENT pt 2

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History on the move: the story of Ali, his two-year long journey from Afghanistan and his new life in the UK

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9/11 Live: On Air

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9/11 Live. On 9/11 FRDH host was presenting the NPR program The Connection as the twin towers came down. The Connection theme was a version of Herbie Hancock’s Cantaloupe Island.  The music was too jaunty and wasn’t used that day.  After the show went off the air the production team sat down to figure out what music was appropriate. On the tenth anniversary of the tragedy Goldfarb made this program, using extracts from the original broadcast, and continued that meditation: what music would have been appropriate?  How do you find the sounds to convey an epoch defining tragedy? Grief, heroism, rage and hope all need to figure. The finished program originally aired on BBC Radio 3 and won a New York World Radio Festival award.

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FEDERALISM: A Political History

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Political History: Federalism beginning with the Act of Union between England and Scotland in 1707 through to the European Union.

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Prayer For The Dead Pt. 2

Prayer For The Dead Pt. 2- Raw History recorded by me at Crematorium #2 at Auschwitz-Birkenau on 50th anniversary of the camp’s liberation for an NPR news piece.

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Autumn 1973 Ep 5: End of the Post-War Economy

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Turning Point in History: Part 5 of my series on how the world dramatically changed in Autumn 1973. The photo is of Dodge Main plant in Hamtramck Michigan 8 years later.

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