'Barack X': What He Really Means to Us

This week on The Confab: Join Staff Writer Jenée Desmond-Harris and Assistant Editor Akoto Ofori-Atta as they chat with professor Jelani Cobb about things some people just don't get about Obama's cultural significance. Plus: The worst habits of rappers.

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The Confab -- Jan. 27, 2012

Join Washington reporter Cynthia Gordy as she chats with Assistant Editor Akoto Ofori-Atta and contributor Jozen Cummings about Obama’s State of the Union address, the race-specific Red Tails marketing campaign, and black love on reality television.


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The Confab -- Jan. 6, 2012

A good cast from the african american community... hold fast...
Join Deputy Editor Lauren Williams as she chats with Washington Reporter Cynthia Gordy and contributor Jack White about the state of the race of the GOP presidential nomination and what to look forward to in 2012.


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The Confab -- Oct. 28, 2011

The latest... enjoy...

This week on the Confab: Join Managing Editor Joel Dreyfuss as he chats with Assistant Editor Akoto Ofori-Atta and contributor Mary Curtis about Rep. James Clyburn's belief that President Obama will win the 2012 election, about Pat Buchanan's racist rants and Jet magazine's 60th-anniversary issue.


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The Confab: Oct. 7, 2011

Our new episode... enjoy..

Join Associate Editor Lauren Williams as she chats with Managing Editor Joel Dreyfuss, contributor Mary Curtis, and Mother Jones reporter Adam Serwer about politics and race in the New South, Herman Cain and The Root 100 for 2011.


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The Confab -- Sept. 30, 2011

Our latest episode...in the immortal words of Bobby Robinson.. of Sylvia Robinson fame.. enjoy..

This week on the Confab: Join Associate Editor Lauren Williams as she chats with Cynthia Gordy, The Root’s Washington reporter, and contributor Wilmer Leon about whether or not Barack Obama’s black critics are justified and what was up with that CBC speech.


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The Confab -- Sept. 9, 2011

the latest podcast production... enjoy..

This week on the Confab: Join Associate Editor Lauren Williams as she chats with Managing Editor Joel Dreyfuss, Washington reporter Cynthia Gordy and Contributing Editor John McWhorter about the effectiveness of “race conversations” and the GOP debate.


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Jimmy Carter's memoir / Growing Up in the Country

In June of 2001, Weekend All Things Considered visited former President Jimmy Carter at his boyhood family farm in Plains, Georgia. He took us on a tour of the farm, which is being managed by the National Park Service as an historic site. It is the country's only fully preserved Depression-era farm.

 

The former President recalled what it was like to grow up in the 1930s, in the segregated South, working side by side with his father and black sharecroppers who lived on the property.