LWV-Downeast hosts a monthly radio program on democracy in cooperation with WERU FM, rebroadcast at this time on WMPG FM.
This month, we’ll talk about whether this is one of the most divided moments in American history. How have these fractured moments come up in our prior history? What role is the emergence of multiracial democracy playing in this current divisive moment? What role has race played in the divisions of the past? Can a polity come back from such serious fragmentation? How have we gotten past it before, or have we?
Special Guests:
- David Blight, Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies at Yale University, and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.
- Cheryl Townsed Gilkes, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies at Colby College.
WMPG 90.9 FM Portland, streaming at wmpg.org.