Driving the Green Book
Bonus: Two eyewitnesses to the Green Book
In this bonus episode, Alvin and Janée talk with two women whose families used The Negro Motorist Green Book.
Book Preview: How We Can Win: Race, History, and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged
Hear an excerpt from the new book, How We Can Win: Race, History, and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged. In it, author and activist Kimberly Jones...
Book Preview: Buses Are A Comin'
Although Driving the Green Book is over, today we're sharing a clip from another powerful story about the fight for racial equality. The new book Buse...
The Lorraine Motel
Now a National Civil Rights Monument, and best-known as the site where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Te...
Ghost Towns
Places like Paradise Valley in Detroit and Idlewild, Michigan, catered to African American communities, whether it be to create a thriving district of...
Preserving History
The A.G. Gaston Motel in Birmingham, Alabama was considered top-tier lodging for African Americans and an epicenter for the civil rights movement duri...
A Place to Put It
We explore the emotional legacy of The Negro Motorist Green Book and the inherited wisdom passed down from generation to generation.
The Elders, Living History
The elders who lived through segregation pass down the wisdom and knowledge they gained as they learned to safely navigate extremely tense, frightenin...
The Nettles of Nashville
We head to Nashville to trace the legacy of Jim Crow, segregation, and The Negro Motorist Green Book through different generations of one family: The ...
Mother Wit
How did Black travelers use Mother Wit—common sense insights—to help them survive during the Jim Crow era?