Black Voices

This hour, we are taking a look at weight stigma. We talk about the relationship between anti-Blackness and anti-fatness, and we hear how weight stigma impacts things like medical care and employment.

When Bassett attended Yale in the early 80s, The David Geffen School of Drama ,was primarily producing work by prolific white American and European playwrights like Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Chekhov. Vance says there were few opportunities for Black actors and even fewer stagings of work by Black writers.

This year's winner of the Stowe Prize is Princess Joy L. Perry. Her debut novel, 'This Here is Love,' follows multiple characters as it depicts slavery in 1690s Virginia and the complex hierarchies that form.

Award-winning author Edwidge Danticat talks about her latest book, 'Dèy,' which tells the story of a Haitian American woman in Miami trying to understand a traumatic experience.

We'll learn how the history of discrimination at pools impacts people of color, and we'll talk to a local group who provides adaptive swim lessons to neurodivergent students.

With the 250th year of the U.S., scholar Eddie Glaude Jr. is thinking about how the country celebrates its founding. His new book is 'America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries.'

SOUL, an acronym for Supporting Opportunity and Uplifting Leadership, was established by the foundation to assist Black-owned businesses in Fairfield County.

The marker located in the famed Granary Burial Ground near Park Street is likely one of the oldest of a free Black person in the U.S., city officials said Thursday.

Fanel Merville says he’s been responding to anxious calls from Haitian immigrants who have a Temporary Protected Status and have lots of questions, as they may face deportation due to their TPS status expiring.

An ongoing project to preserve one of the last structures from a neighborhood, built by and for free Black people in Bridgeport during the 19th century, is getting additional funding for restoration work.