{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Re:sound #208 The Behind the Headlines Show","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61009a3631fd81f125b34e75/61009aca121e70001399e396.jpg?height=200","description":"This hour stories of black lives caught in the cross hairs of injustice.\r\n\r\n695BGK\r\nby Phoebe Judge & Lauren Spohrer (Criminal, 2015)\r\nJust before 2am on December 31, 2008, police officer John Edwards was patrolling in Bellaire, Texas when he saw an SUV driven by two young African-American men. Edwards followed the SUV and ran the license plate number. His computer indicated that the SUV was stolen, and Edwards drew his gun and told the two men to get down on the ground. By the time Edwards realized he had made a mistake, one of the men had already been shot.\r\n\r\nStrange Fruit\r\n[NOTE: only available at www.ThirdCoastFestival.org until 31 August]\r\nby Maggie Ayre (Soul Music, BBC Radio 4, 2014)\r\nBillie Holiday's famous song 'Strange Fruit' expresses the horror and anguish of a community subjected to lynching in the American South. In this programe, we hear the stories of people whose relatives were lynched by white racists and of the various forms of grief, anger and reconciliation that have followed. And learn the roots of the song itself. \r\n\r\nWe've Forgotten James Powell\r\nby Nate DiMeo (The Memory Palace, 2014)\r\nNate Dimeo looks back to the summer of 1964. It's late afternoon in New York City: a group of kids hangs out on a stoop after a day of summer school, just kicking it, like they always do.\r\n\r\nAlex Landau and Patsy Hathaway\r\nby Jud Etsy Kendall (StoryCorp, 2014)\r\nAlex Landau, an African American who was adopted by a white couple, grew up in a largely white, middle-class suburb of Denver, Colorado. After a traffic stop one night, Alex was severely beaten by Denver Police officers. He and his mother, Patsy Hathaway, visited StoryCorps to talk about how Alex’s race has influenced his life and what happened that night the police stopped him.\r\n\r\nVisit www.ThirdCoastFestival.org for more stories related to this issue. \r\n\r\nPHOTO\r\nKaitlyn Veto\r\nhttp://bit.ly/1M0C8Gm
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