In the 1890’s, Wilmington, North Carolina had a thriving black middle class, but that ended in 1898, with a bloody campaign of violence and intimidation by white supremacists.  On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross speaks with journalist David Zucchino talks about his book Wilmington’s Lie. Join us.

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(Photo: Wilmington’s Lie, by David Zucchino – Book cover)

Jon Batiste is the music director and bandleader on The Late Show with Steven Colbert, and he composed, arranged and performs the jazz in the animated film Soul. In New York, after George Floyd was killed he led peaceful protesters in hymns and songs. Now he has a new album, called We Are. Join us.

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(Photo: Jon Batiste – Courtesy NPR Music)

On the next Fresh Air, Dave Davies talks with MIT professor Sherry Turkle, who’s spent decades studying the impact of digital technology on our culture. She has a new memoir about growing up in Brooklyn and becoming a leading academic. Her book is The Empathy Diaries. Join us.

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(Photo: Sherry Turkle is the founder of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. Her previous books include Simulation and Its Discontents and Life on the Screen - Peter Urban/Basic Books).

On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross speaks with Katie Englehart, author of a new book about the Right to Die, and how that’s played out in states and countries that have right-to-die laws, in the clandestine groups on the internet known as the euthanasia underground, and in families where one member asks another for help in hastening death.  Join us.

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(Photo: The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die, by Katie Englehart – Book cover)