3 chapters across the catalog
To bolster Obama’s lack of slave ancestry, the media focused on Michelle Obama’s family tree. The New York Times and genealogist Megan Smolenyak traced her roots back to an enslaved girl named Melvinia in 1850. This research was used to provide the "slavery to the White House" narrative that was missing from Barack’s personal history.
A Dutch listener shares her experience living in Chicago in the 1980s, describing the South Side as a "no-go zone." The discussion references Bob Woodson’s theories on how government aid and nepotism have failed to improve impoverished neighborhoods. The listener also notes similarities between Dutch and American welfare policies that discouraged two-parent households.
The Great Migration, Chicago Tenements, and CBS News 1967
A 1967 CBS News special profiles Black families who moved from Alabama to Chicago's South Side during the Great Migration. The segment highlights the harsh reality of northern tenements and mentions the stoning of a Black child on a segregated Chicago beach, contrasting it with the more famous Emmett Till narrative.
