Conversations in Context

Music

Season 1 E 3 • 08/04/2020

Dometi Pongo talks with Lonnie G. Bunch III about the role music plays as a form of protest and empowerment for African Americans, and draws parallels between the blues and hip hop.

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11:27

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Conversations in Context
Movements

Dometi Pongo talks with Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute Lonnie G. Bunch III about Black college students' sit-in protests at a Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, NC, in 1960.
08/04/2020
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10:04

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Marches

Dometi Pongo talks with Lonnie G. Bunch III about the 1917 Silent Parade, one of the first mass civil rights protests in the U.S., the powerful message it sent and the foundation it laid.
08/04/2020
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13:38

S1 • E3
Conversations in Context
Music

Dometi Pongo talks with Lonnie G. Bunch III about the role music plays as a form of protest and empowerment for African Americans, and draws parallels between the blues and hip hop.
08/04/2020
Full Ep
09:54

S1 • E4
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Media

Nearly 60 years after the Freedom Riders protest, Dometi Pongo sits down with historian Lonnie G. Bunch III to discuss the importance of documenting social movements then and now.
08/11/2020
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12:22

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Memory

Dometi Pongo and Lonnie G. Bunch III talk about the importance of remembering the past, including slavery and the civil rights struggle, in order to see a truer picture of American history.
08/17/2020
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