All Of It with Alison Stewart

A new documentary film explores the African American experience in the South and Gullah culture through the lens of a native son. He also happens to be the son of Pastor Dr. Norvel Goff, whose congregation experienced a racist mass shooting in 2015. Director Jon Sesrie-Goff joins to discuss his debut feature, "After Sherman."

The Deep Water Literary Festival returns to upstate New York this weekend with a focus on George Orwell, and includes headliners Rebecca Solnit, Lucy Sante, Jad Abumrad, and George Orwell’s son, Richard Blair. Festival co-curator, Aaron Hicklin and headliner Jad Abumrad join us to discuss.

In seeking to learn more about her family history, author Ava Chin was able to trace many of her relatives back to one building on Mott Street in Chinatown. From the Chinese Exclusion Act to present day, Chin traces the history of her family, and the Chinese community in America, through this one building. Chin joins us to discuss her new book, Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming.

A new documentary film follows two-time Grammy Award winning artist Gloria Gaynor in her journey to break into the gospel genre. Director Betsy Schechter joins us to talk documenting the artist's life for about eight years. The film is titled, "Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive" and is apart of Tribeca Film Festival's Spotlight+ series and has a screening Friday, June 17 at 5:15 p.m. 

Bisa Butler is a local artist who makes life sized quilts inspired by portraits of Black figures, including those taken by her favorite photographers such as Gordon Parks and Jamel Shabazz. Her new solo exhibition, The World Is Yours, inspired by the lyrics of Nas, is on view now, and combines textiles, paint, Nigerian hand-dyed batiks and African wax-resist cotton. Butler joins us in studio to discuss her process and the show, which is on view at Jeffery Deitch through June 30.

In her latest book, journalist Maureen Ryan describes racism, harassment, and other forms of abuse prevalent in Hollywood through deep dives into shows like "Lost," "Saturday Night Live," and "Curb Your Enthusiasm." Ryan joins us to discuss her book, Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood.

Don't plotz, but the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene is holding its "New York Sings Yiddish!" event at Central Park's Summerstage this evening. So muster your voice and your chutzpa for some sing-alongs with The Klezmatics and other musicians. NYTF's artistic director Zalmen Mlotek discusses the event, along with Ann Toback, CEO of The Workers Circle, which is celebrating the launch of its YiddishSongs.org archive, from which many of the event's musical selections were drawn. So, if "Oy vey!" is your default exclamation, get your tuchas to Summerstage to kibitz, nosh, sing along, and celebrate this endangered language that's very much part of New York City culture.

Today's episode is guest-hosted by David Furst.

Netflix just launched its effort to end password sharing, which has helped the company boost subscribers. We speak to Jessica Toonkel, Wall Street Journal deputy media editor, about streaming trends and whether Netflix's strategy will put an end to password sharing for all services in the future. We also take your calls about your streaming habits.

Today's episode is guest-hosted by David Furst.

A new play, "Love + Science," tells the story of two gay medical students who connect while working in a retrovirology lab during the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980's. Actors Matt Walker (Matt) and Thursday Farrar (Prof. Diane Gold) join us to talk about the show, which is running through July 6.

Today's episode is guest-hosted by David Furst.

A new book reflects on the gay and lesbian influence on stage from "female impersonators" of the 1910s to the raucous drag performances of "La Cage aux Folles." Musical theater researcher Ethan Mordden joins us to take your calls and talk about his latest book, Gays on Broadway.

Today's episode is guest-hosted by David Furst.