How Chicago's Black press shaped America

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🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Host Brittany Luse sits down with Arionne Nettles, author of We Are the Culture: Black Chicago's Influence on Everything. Arionne shares how Black media in Chicago influenced the way Black Americans see themselves and why the city deserves to be called 'the heart of Black America.'

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0:00.0	You know the names of the primary players, Jimmy Carter.
0:03.0	Our country is not strong anymore.
0:04.5	Ronald Reagan. We have perverted our Constitution.
0:07.1	Gerald Ford. But how they acted, it's just about the opposite of their popular images.
0:12.8	Those are the seeds of the culture war.
0:17.2	Landslide, how a presidential race led to today's political divide.
0:21.2	Subscribe now to Landslide, part of the NPR Network.
0:24.0	Hello, hello.
0:28.0	I'm Brittany Loose and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR.
0:32.0	A show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident. Every now and again an age-old debate surfaces within the black community.
0:50.0	Which city lays the greatest claim to being the epicenter of black cultural life?
0:55.0	Some say it's Atlanta with its legacy of civil rights organizing.
1:00.0	The leadership of Atlanta must be commended for the great strides that we've made in this
1:05.0	community. Some say it's the jewel of my home state Detroit, the birthplace of
1:10.9	Motown, and of course there are many others.
1:17.0	D.C. Houston, Memphis, the list goes on.
1:22.0	But today's guest looks at it a different Houston, Memphis, the list goes on.
1:22.7	But today's guest looks at it a different way.
1:26.0	Chicago just can't get left out.
1:28.0	We're the heart.
1:28.7	Everybody gets to be a body part, though.
1:30.5	We're a heart.
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