TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE

PROMO FOR   "Integration Stories"
*It's been more than four decades since the Civil Rights movement ended
racial segregation in America.   Yet few would say African-Americans are
now fully integrated   or assimilated. In this hour of To the Best of
Our Knowledge, African American writers talk about race, and how black
history   from segregation to the Great Migration to the culture of hip
hop   continues to shape our racial conversation today.

PROGRAM RUNDOWN:   "Integration Stories"

0:00 - 14:01        SEGMENT 1: (14:02)
            Michele Norris is best-known to public radio listeners as
            the co-host of NPR's All Things Considered.  She's also
            the author of a memoir called The Grace of Silence.  She
            talks with Anne Strainchamps about her family's hidden
            racial past.
                         
            Segment One Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

14:02 - 14:31  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

14:32 - 33:59       SEGMENT 2: (19:29)
            Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson tells
            the story of America's Great Migration in her book, The
            Warmth of Other Suns.  The book chronicles the epic
            struggle for freedom of the six million people who
            migrated North from the southern states before the era of
            civil rights and equal opportunity.  Wilkerson speaks
            with Steve Paulson.  Also, Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison
            tells Jim Fleming that while her childhood in Ohio was
            dramatically different from her parents' experiences in
            the segregated South, racial integration had the
            unintended effect of magnifying class differences among
            African Americans. 
                         
            Segment Two Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

34:00 - 34:29       LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

34:30 - 53:00       SEGMENT 3: (18:30)
            Producer Cynthia Woodland introduces us to "The Bid Whist
            Ladies" - a small group of African American women in
            Madison, Wisconsin who've been meeting once a week to
            play cards for over 25 years.  Bid Whist has been a
            staple of African American culture for generations.  
            Also, Thomas Chatterton Williams is a young writer who
            grew up listening to hip hop.  His scholarly father
            instilled in him a passion for reading books.  He tells
            Jim Fleming that when he went to college, hip hop began
            to lose its appeal.  His memoir is called Losing My Cool:
            How A Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip Hop
            Culture.

            Segment Three Outcue: PRI Audio Logo


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