Category: Arts & Entertainment

This week, we’re live in Durham with special guest Lewis Black and panelists Dulcé Sloan, Alonzo Bodden, and Adam Burke

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On the 30th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, a theater production brings the stories of survivors and victims to the next generation.

In the news, Sudan is often discussed a place devastated by a civil war and home to the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. But a podcast sharing Sudanese folklore shows more about the culture.

This latest Ryan Coogler/Michael B. Jordan collaboration is set in 1930s Mississippi — it’s awash in gorgeous music, turbulent romance, pan-African spiritualism and, by the end, buckets of blood.

Reid’s book, Medgar and Myrlie, tells the stories of the civil rights leader from Mississippi and his wife, who became an activist after Medgar’s 1963 assassination. Originally broadcast Feb. 7, 2024.

This month has brought a shower of new podcasts for your playlist. The NPR One team gathered a few returning favorites as well as some fresh releases from across public media.

The comedy duo of Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong became the standard bearers of pot humor in the 1970s. They’re now the subjects of the documentary “Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie.”

The very scary movie Sinners finds Michael B. Jordan playing twin brothers who open a 1930s juke joint. And opening night does not go as planned. Written and directed by Ryan Coogler, (Black Panther), the film mixes blues music with classic horror in a standoff between the brothers and their friends on the inside and the bloodthirsty – and growing – menace outside.

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Have you turned on ESPN recently? You might be surprised to find that the sports bros are abandoning GOAT debates and getting political. No one is more an example of this than ESPN personality and perhaps Presidential candidate, Stephen A. Smith. So what’s going on here? And what does the Fox Newsification of sports media tell us about our current political culture and future?

Brittany is joined by co-host of NPR’s Code Switch podcast, Gene Demby, and Senior Staff Writer at the Ringer, Joel Anderson. Together, they discuss how sports commentary is way more political than you might think and why its most viral star Stephen A. Smith would even entertain the idea of running for president in 2028.

Davis was jazz critic for The Village Voice and a contributing editor for The Atlantic. He wrote many books on jazz, and won a Grammy for his liner notes for the reissue of Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue.