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Jefferson at WNHH.
What if, Michael Jefferson wondered, slavery and reconstruction hadn’t ended in new iterations of racism? What if history’s wrongs could be righted, power restored to black hands?
That’s the thesis of Jefferson’s new book, Deo Vindice: The Resurrection. A work of historical fiction that took years of research, the book was the subject of Jefferson’s interview on Michelle Turner’s “The Show.” To listen, click on or download the audio above, or check out WNHH’s new podcast “Elm City Lowdown” on Soundcloud, iTunes, or any podcatcher.
On “Dateline New Haven,” Roslyn Meyer described her journey from surviving cancer to a new career as a photographer, journeying to Norway to see, and capture, the aurora borealis. To listen, click on or download the audio above, or subscribe to WNHH’s new “Dateline New Haven” podcast on Soundcloud or iTunes.
The nerve of fashionable ladies and gents in our town to substitute good old universally understood Arabic numerals to indicate their street address on their doors with spelled out numbers instead! Don’t they know all the Italians and Jews new to New Haven may know how to speak English long before they can read it? “This Day In New Haven History” time-travels back to 1904 to grapple with this immigrant dilemma. To listen, click on or download the audio above.