Imagine yourself as a respectable married woman in 18th-century England, with a husband who regularly brings you home the finest chocolate. It’s probably just as well you don’t know that it is laced with mercury – a way of treating the syphilis which he fears he has passed on to you. Or how about being…
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The vision of three founders of =SPACE, a game-changing shared space and incubator At the forefront of a great technology revolution, Newark, New Jersey, is becoming the next booming tech hub. Much of this advancement is made possible through Newark Fiber‘s Firebolt Wi-Fi; one of the fastest in broadband technology to date, offering up to 10,000…
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A new podcast about the Bain family murders has been a hit, following in the footsteps of popular ones about unsolved crimes overseas. Is it journalism – or entertainment? And why are we so keen on podcasts about old cold cases and true crimes? The logo for the Black Hands series. Photo: screenshot Fairfax Media’s…
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“I’d love to host a podcast one day,” Sarah says wistfully when I speak to her on the phone. She’s 17, from Georgia, and just graduated high school. She’s saved enough money to go traveling for a year, and plans to start college in 2019 if she can afford it. Her parents are supportive, but…
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DETROIT (WXYZ) – With just a week until the “Detroit” movie hits theatres nationwide, you have a chance to hear from people who lived through the riots in an all-new “Rebellion in Detroit” podcast. The film also premieres in metro Detroit on Friday at different theatres throughout the area. The podcast is fro the film…
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Listen to Episode No. 159 of Live at Politics and Prose: On this episode of Live at Politics and Prose, Angela J. Davis discusses her new anthology, Policing the Black Man, with several of the book’s contributors. Live at Politics and Prose will appear every Friday in the Slate Daily Podcast and its own feed….
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LEFT TO RIGHT: JAMES COOPER, JAMIE MORTON, AND ALICE LEVINE. A few years ago, a newly retired father asked his adult son to review the first few chapters of his novel, Belinda Blinked. He’d never written fiction before, and did not elaborate on any sources of inspiration or his chosen genre. “He just said he…
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The comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week our crack team of podcast…
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July 26th, 2017; Columbia Journalism Review The podcast world is divided into two sectors: pre- and post-Serial. Followers in the know can tell how the landscape of podcasting changed when Serial, a spinoff of This American Life, came onto the scene. A podcast “boom” has emerged following Serial’s success and many nonprofits are exploring whether hosting a podcast is the right direction to go. Experts declare that while…
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Reveling in the Unapologetic Blackness of ‘Girls Trip’New York TimesWe talk about the importance of this milestone and also cheer the movie itself for giving us fun, sexy, sexual black women without denying them their humanness. We also talk about how Jenna might have joined … Open your podcast app. It’s a preloaded … Read…
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