After the massacre and coup of November 10, 1898, white supremacists in North Carolina soon finished the job of disenfranchising Black citizens and instituting Jim Crow segregation. They also took control of the narrative. A new propaganda campaign, the one after the fact, succeeded for a century – even as several Black writers tried to tell the truth about 1898 and left breadcrumbs for future historians to find.
By Michael A. Betts, II and John Biewen. Interviews with LeRae Umfleet, Gareth Evans, David Cecelski, William Sturkey, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Doug Jones, and Adriane Lentz-Smith. Story editor: Loretta Williams. Voice actor: Mike Wiley. Music by Kieran Haile, Blue Dot Sessions, Okaya, Jameson Nathan Jones, and Lucas Biewen. Art by Zaire McPhearson. “Echoes of a Coup” is an initiative of America’s Hallowed Ground, a project of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.
S6 E5: A Way Forward
S6 E3: A Day of Blood
S6 E2: Crying "Negro Rule"
S6 E1: What Was Lost
Season 6 Trailer: Echoes of a Coup
Update: Scene on Radio status report
"The Excess of Democracy": Rebroadcast
White Affirmative Action: Rebroadcast
Losing Ground: Rebroadcast
Bonus: Introducing Hot Take
Himpathy: Rebroadcast
Things I'm Afraid to Say: Rebroadcast
Prince and Philando and Futures Untold: Rebroadcast
S5 E11: Change Everything
S5 E10: The Power Structure, Not the Energy Source
S5 E9: Pachamama
S5 E8: Last Orders
S5 E7: Deluges and Dreams
S5 E6: "We Don't Have the Power to Fight It"
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