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A weekly public radio show and podcast hosted by , and produced in collaboration with .
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"It's kind of like what's happening now with Republican governors loading migrants onto buses and planes and sending them to Democratic states. I thought, it's just like the Reverse Freedom Rides all over again." —
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In 1962, Southern segregationists came up with a retaliation against the Freedom Rides: using the same weapon as civil rights activists—the Greyhound bus—they lured Black families north with the false promise of housing and jobs.
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Wonderful to hear audio from 's collection included in this week's , and to see footage from our collection accompanying the episode on their site. Nothing better than getting history out of the archive and into the world!
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Jahmal Williams stumbles on a clue about his grandmother’s history that answers a question he’s always had. bit.ly/3TrYXYR
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Don't miss this new three-part series from Nancy Updike, one of the founding producers of our show, who has made some of our best stories.
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Our new show is here: "We Were Three" is a story of lies, family, America, and what Covid revealed—as well as what it destroyed. Hear it now in the Serial feed. bit.ly/3rQlcM9
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I documented Ilya's journey home for radio. It's my first piece for , part of: thisamericanlife.org/780/setting-th I hope it captures the nuance, the complexity, the intense difficulty...of what it's like to make sense of home when home is in the middle of war and occupation.
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"People are handed from smuggler to smuggler, like links in a chain, until they get to the border. And when they get there, the last guides who take them on the last mile of the journey are teenage boys, doing teenage boy things."
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