How James Baldwin schooled Robert F. Kennedy on race in America
Last week was the 50th anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination. Bobby Kennedy was remembered as a civil rights advocate, but it's more interesting than that.
Robert Kennedy was not always a champion of the oppressed. But he was at least willing to listen.
Bill Radke speaks with Georgetown University sociology professor Michael Eric Dyson about his new book "What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Racein America."
Dyson describes a difficult, but critical meeting between Robert F. Kennedy and James Baldwin that forever changed how Kennedy thought about racial justice.
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Matt Martin
Podcast Producer
Matt Martin is a podcast producer who has worked on many different show for KUOW. He pitched and created THE WILD with Chris Morgan, a rich and experiential podcast about ecology and conservation. Matt also produced the Seattle music history podcast Let the Kids Dance and the award-winning Ghost Herd. Before moving to the on-demand side of the station, Matt worked as a producer on The Record, KUOW's local news show. He has also worked as a general assignment reporter and host for public radio stations in upstate New York and rural Alaska. Matt got his start in media as an intern with StoryCorps and Aljazeera America.
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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