Terry Gross

Sep 2, 2024 | ideastream.org | Terry Gross

In this 2000 interview, the star remembered watching movies in segregated theaters. Though he often plays tough guys he said, in real life, "

Mar 1, 2024 | wfdd.org | Justin Chang |Terry Gross |David Bianculli

Dune: Part Two picks up right where Dune: Part One left off. It's still the year 10191, and we're back on Arrakis, a remote desert planet with vast reserves of spice, the most coveted substance in the universe. The villains of House Harkonnen have regained control of Arrakis after defeating the benevolent leaders of House Atreides. But hope survives in the form of the young hero Paul Atreides, who has fled into the desert.

Feb 7, 2024 | wwno.org | Terry Gross

Reid's new book, Medgar and Myrlie, tells the stories of the civil rights leader from Mississippi and his wife, who became a civil rights activist after Medgar's 1963 assassination. Copyright 2024 Fresh Air

Feb 7, 2024 | wfdd.org | Terry Gross |David Bianculli

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Jan 8, 2024 | wfdd.org | Terry Gross

When Sterling K. Brown first came to Hollywood in the early 2000s, casting directors told him he needed to lose his "smart guy thing" in order to get more roles. The actor, who had studied economics at Stanford and interned at the Federal Reserve, says he didn't fit the mold of the stories being told about Black people. Those stories, Brown says, "had to deal with Black folks overcoming certain adversities and dealing with certain traumas. ...