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Discussing the book "Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity" (published by University of Chicago Press) with the author Mitchell Duneier, photographer Ovie Carter, Nate "Slim" Douglas and Ed Watlington
Sep. 2, 1992
Discussing the book "Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity" (published by University of Chicago Press) with the author Mitchell Duneier, photographer Ovie Carter, Nate "Slim" Douglas and Ed Watlington,
Discussing the book "Race Matters" with the author, Princeton University Professor of African American studies, Cornel West
May. 5, 1993
Discussing the book "Parallel Time: Growing up in Black and White" with the author, journalist Brent Staples
Mar. 1, 1994
Discussing the book "Kaffir Boy in America: An Encounter with Apartheid" with the author Mark Mathabane
Jun. 29, 1989
Program includes an excerpt of a 1963 interview with Carl Douglas Fuchs (T1341).
Discussing the book "I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle" with Professor Charles M. Payne
Jun. 20, 1995
Discussing the book "Freedom Rising" with James North
Apr. 18, 1985
Discussing the book "Covenant: Faces, Voices, Places," with the author Will D. Campbell
Dec. 15, 1989
Discussing the "Chicago Schools Challenge " and interviewing James Clement, Mrs. Barry Norton, and Pearl Shaw ; part 2
1965
Discussing race relations in the workplace with Clarence Page and Charles Hamilton
Mar. 29, 1990
Discussing Lew Erwin's radio documentary "The Story of Watts" and interviewing Peter Orleans
Oct. 20, 1965
Discussing folk music with folk musician Pete Seeger
Feb. 11, 1982
The following songs were removed due to copyright restrictions:, "East Virginia", "Sticking With The Union", "Old Blue", "Jesu, Meine Freude", "We Shall Overcome", "The Draft", "Sailin' Up, Sailin' Down", and "Precious Friend" an instrumental song.
Discussing Cole Porter's work and the book "Cole" and interviewing its author Robert Kimball
1970
Cole Porter biographer Robert Kimball talks with Studs about his book "Cole" and his subject's life and work as they listen to classic performances of some of his most beloved songs. They marvel at how Porter perfectly captured the zeitgeist of the times in his lyrics, his lyrical influences, his unique method of outside-in composing lyrics and music simultaneously, Bobby Short's masterful interpretations, controversies over some of his works, and how well his material holds up.
Discussing Apartheid, South Africa, British colonialism, and Afrikaner and Black African cultures with South African expatriates, Reverend Theodore Koetze and Helen Koetze
Mar. 26, 1984
Discussing " Wade in the Water: Great Moments in Black History" with Lerone Bennett, Jr.
Feb. 5, 1980
Dick Simpson discusses neighborhood government system
Mar. 1, 1979
Dick Simpson, alderman of Chicago, discusses neighborhood governments. He describes the history, explains the uses of wards, and shows how the system can work in light of a recent election in Chicago. Studs reads an article about the recent election by Mike Royko.

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