The Uncomfortable Truth

Who should own the narrative when it comes to talking about slavery and Jim Crow? Lance Wheeler, is the former Curator of Exhibition & Interpreters at the only state funded civil rights museum in the country, The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum walks us through his insights as they worked to create a space to share a part of history many people are uncomfortable talking about.

Who should own the narrative when it comes to talking about slavery and Jim Crow? Lance Wheeler, is the former Curator of Exhibition & Interpreters at the only state funded civil rights museum in the country, The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum walks us through his insights as they worked to create a space to share a part of history many people are uncomfortable talking about.

As the Coronavirus continues to spread across the globe, class and racism are playing a dramatic role in how it selects its victims. Our nations long history of institutional racism and the mistreatment of African Americans through science and medicine has further exposed this legacy through this recent pandemic.

When white people are called out on their racism a response one often hears is, "Well, Black people are just as racist again me." Is racism the exclusive domain of whites or can African-Americans be racist too?"

Many of us want to help change the narrative and be anti-racist partners in the good fight. This was true of civil rights activists coming to Mississippi as well. However, there were times when being right could get you killed. Freedom Rider and Civil Rights Activist, Luvghan Brown, shares a harrowing story when even Civil Rights icon, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, had to learn this lesson the hard way.

What was it like being on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement in what many called, the Deepest of the Deep South… “The Heart of Darkness”. Freedom Rider and Civil Rights Activist, Luvaghn Brown, takes us back to the 1960s and into the Mississippi Delta and the night the Klan came a calling.

The United States government has a history of paying reparations to those who have been wronged but with one very striking exception: slavery. Should reparations be paid or, as some have claimed, have we already? In this episode of The Uncomfortable Truth we are going to examine the issue of reparations and what should and could be done to pay for what has been called our nation’s “original sin”.

Legal segregation doesn’t exist anymore in the United States but are we still segregated psychologically?

If you were born and raised in Mississippi during the Jim Crow Era of the 1950s and 60s what would your life have been like and how would it shape your view of America? Well, that would just depend on whether you were black or white. In this episode we hear how being Black in Mississippi during this period shaped the life of Freedom Rider, Luvaghn Brown.

Someone says something racist and apologizes for it. Was it an accident? Are they a racist? What should happen to them? Is this an opportunity to cancel them out or to educate.