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Civil Rights Activist Helena Hicks passes away at age 88

Tom Hall

Civil Rights activist Helena Hicks has passed away at the age of 88. We reflect on her legacy in an interview she conducted with Tom Hall in 2016.

Credit: Rabess book: Simon & Schuster (l); Nkrumah book: Amistad (r)

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Interracial Complications: "Everything is Fine" by Cecilia Rabess and "Wade in the Water" by Nyani Nkrumah

Marion Winik

Navigating complicated relationships.

A 2017 aerial view of Wilde Lake and surrounding neighborhoods in Columbia, Maryland. A new report says a lack of affordable housing and a rising incidence of racial bias in real estate transactions amount to "creeping segregation" in the 55 year-old planned community. (Photo by jstuby via Wikimedia Commons)

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"Creeping segregation" cited in new report on Columbia housing

Tom Hall

The co-authors of a new report by NCRC, a non-profit organization that works to end racial discrimination in lending, housing and business practices, discuss the evidence they found of racial bias in the planned community's housing market.

Ben Todd Jealous, former president of the NAACP and a 2018 Democratic candidate for Maryland governor, is one of the nation's leading civil rights activists. He's also an educator, business investor and author, and in November 2022, he became the executive director of the Sierra Club, one of the nation's oldest and most influential environmental organizations. (photo credit Christopher Jason Studios/cover art courtesy Harper Collins)

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From Ben Jealous, a new memoir about family, race, national unity

Tom Hall

In a new collection of personal essays, the bi-racial civil rights activist, author, executive and educator opens up about his family's unique heritage and his hopes for a just, equitable American democracy.

Novelist Naima Coster's latest work has been selected by Maryuland Humanities as this year's One Maryland One Book. (cover credit Grand Central Publishing/photo by Sylvie Rosokoff)

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"What's Mine and Yours": Naima Coster's novel of race and family

Tom Hall

The bestselling novelist's latest work has been selected by Maryland Humanities as 2022's One Maryland, One Book, and the author joins us to talk about it.

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"What's Mine and Yours": Naima Coster's tale of race & two families

Tom Hall

The bestselling novelist's latest work has been selected by Maryland Humanities as 2022's One Maryland One Book, and the author joins us to talk about it.

"Finding Fellowship" is a chronicle of three Methodist churches in Maryland - one Black and two White - that found the strength to unify during a time of racial strife in the late 1960s. (courtesy QuinceOrchardProject/1331 Productions)

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Filmmaker Jason Green on the making of "Finding Fellowship"

Tom Hall

The local entrepreneur's new doc is a family-inspired (and family-produced) film about racial equity and the power of community.

Celeste Headlee is a public media journalist, speaker and author of three books, her latest on how we can address racism in our lives and work.

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In "Speaking of Race," Celeste Headlee starts the conversation

Tom Hall

The journalist and author says positive social change depends on our being able to talk about racism.

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Mayor Colin Byrd On Greenbelt's Reckoning With Its Racial History

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The New Deal model town was racially segregated for decades after its creation. Today, its Black mayor proposes reparations.

Carole Boston Weatherford's picture book sensitively introduces young readers to the 1921 tragedy.

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Carole Weatherford's "Unspeakable": A Tulsa Race Massacre Primer

Tom Hall

A picture book for young readers portrays one of the darkest chapters in African-American history.