Gene Demby

1 week ago | wrvo.org | Gene Demby |Xavier Lopez |Xavier López |Courtney Stein |Jess Kung

We're coming up on 40 years since the MOVE bombing in Philadelphia, the day a Philadelphia police department helicopter dropped a bomb on a row house. The bombing and the fire it set unfolded on live television. And even though eleven people were killed and hundreds were left homeless by the fires, the MOVE bombing has been largely forgotten. How did we collectively memory-hole an event this big? And what does that tell us about race and policing even today?

1 week ago | npr.org | Gene Demby |Xavier Lopez |Xavier López |Courtney Stein |Jess Kung |Christina Cala | +3 more

40 years ago, Philadelphia police bombed this Black neighborhood on live TV Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1249592902/1269263884" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> We're coming up on 40 years since the MOVE bombing in Philadelphia, the day a Philadelphia police department helicopter dropped a bomb on a row house. The bombing and the fire it set unfolded on live television.

2 weeks ago | npr.org | Jess Kung |B.A. Parker |Dalia Mortada |Christina Cala |Xavier Lopez |Xavier López | +3 more

In the face of trans erasure, what can we learn from Marsha P. Johnson? Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1248091511/1269226329" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Marsha P. Johnson was a trailblazer in the fight for gay rights — from being a key figure in the Stonewall Riots in 1969 to an organizer in the HIV-AIDS crisis in the 1990s.

3 weeks ago | wrvo.org | Gene Demby |Christina Cala |Dalia Mortada |Xavier Lopez |Xavier López

Viet Thanh Nguyen came to the U.S. as a refugee from Vietnam when he was four years old. Growing up in San Jose, California, Nguyen remembers the moment he understood he was Asian-American. In his latest book, To Save and To Destroy: Writing as an Other, Nguyen examines the power in finding solidarity with other Others, especially in today's America. Copyright 2025 NPR

3 weeks ago | npr.org | Gene Demby |Christina Cala |Dalia Mortada |Xavier Lopez |Xavier López |Jess Kung | +3 more

Why now is the time to find power in "otherness" Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1246593561/1269194559" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Hopper Stone/Harvard University Press Hopper Stone/Harvard University Press Viet Thanh Nguyen came to the U.S. as a refugee from Vietnam when he was four years old.