Reconstruction

Radiolab's Jad Abumrad and OSM's Shima Oliaee on Reporting “The Flag and the Fury”

“Mississippi is very particular. It's the state with the most lynchings. It's a state that just holds so much hurt, national hurt. And so the flag is symbolic of that, right, because this was the last state in the Union that had the Confederate emblem on their flag.”

Radiolab Host and producer, Jad Abumrad, on the history and meaning of the Mississippi state flag, the subject of the 2021 duPont-Award winning podcast episode “The Flag and the Fury”

Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Mark Whitaker on Reconstruction: America After the Civil War

“The greatest enemy of democracy is interference with the right to vote.” -- Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

On our latest episode of On Assignment, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. relates his 2020 duPont-winning documentary series Reconstruction: America After the Civil War to events of today with duPont juror Mark Whitaker.