On the next Fresh Air, Dave Daves talks with writer Francisco Goldman. His book, The Art of Political Murder about the assassination of a Guatemalan human rights activist was adapted into an HBO documentary. His novel, Say Her Name is a fictionalized account of the tragic death of his wife in a…

On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross talks with Barry Jenkins, director of the Oscar award-winning film Moonlight, and the film adaptation of James Baldwin’s “If Beale Street Could Talk.” His new TV miniseries is “The Underground Railroad.” It’s adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning…

On the next Fresh Air, as we approach Mother’s Day, Terry Gross listens back to stories Martin Scorsese, Trevor Noah and Albert Brooks told on our show about their mothers. Join us. Fresh Air can be heard weekdays at 3:00 pm on KRCB-FM (and again at 12:00 am Tuesday through Friday)! / streaming @…

On the next Fresh Air, how a promised land to generations of black families became a community of lost lives. Terry Gross talks with Linda Villarosa about her New York Times magazine article titled: Black Lives are Shorter in Chicago, My Family History Shows Why. She covers the intersection of…

On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross talks with Alison Bechdel about her new graphic memoir The Secret to Superhuman Strength, about her obsession with exercise and the issues that have fed that obsession. Her graphic memoir Fun Home, about coming out and learning her father had secret gay affairs,…