Where I Came From

A history of the brief mayoral career of Harold Washington and its lessons for Black and white America, as told by people close to him. (39 minutes)Harold Washington died on November 25, 1987.  This show was first broadcast ten years later, in 1997.

The judges walk us through how different their jobs have become in just the past few months, because of sweeping policy changes by Trump’s Department of Justice.

A young couple, excited to start a new chapter in their lives, is suddenly put on a very different trajectory. (30 minutes)

The police chief in Muskegon conducts his own personal investigation into Officer Anderson’s interactions with Black people on the job.

Producer Ben Calhoun investigates a daily mystery—a daily musical mystery. (15 minutes)

A while ago, a farmer walked through a pork processing plant in Oklahoma with a friend who managed it.