
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


After the promises of Reconstruction began to wither, Black Americans searched for freedom in radically different locales. Caleb Gayle is a journalist, author and professor at Northeastern University, and he is also a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine. He joins guest host John McCaa to tell the story of Edward McCabe, who made it his life’s work to set up a Black state in Oklahoma. His book is “Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State.”
By KERA4.7
889889 ratings
After the promises of Reconstruction began to wither, Black Americans searched for freedom in radically different locales. Caleb Gayle is a journalist, author and professor at Northeastern University, and he is also a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine. He joins guest host John McCaa to tell the story of Edward McCabe, who made it his life’s work to set up a Black state in Oklahoma. His book is “Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State.”

21,968 Listeners

43,850 Listeners

32,012 Listeners

38,428 Listeners

6,828 Listeners

43,592 Listeners

38,900 Listeners

9,191 Listeners

3,981 Listeners

1,013 Listeners

6,409 Listeners

342 Listeners

248 Listeners

4,658 Listeners

16,347 Listeners