This edition: From Du Bois to Trump's America: An Unfinished Fight
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Original tape date: February 9, 2026. First aired: February 20, 2026.New York Times Close Up marks Black History Month with historian David Levering Lewis, the two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer of W. E. B. Du Bois and author of the new memoir The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story. Sam talks with Lewis about how his family’s journey from slavery through Reconstruction, Jim Crow and civil rights reframes American history; the unfinished legacy of Du Bois; reparations and affirmative action; and what Trump-era racism, from “Obama as monkey” memes to attacks on Black history, reveals about the gap between America’s ideals and its reality.
Guest List
David Levering Lewis Historian and NYU Professor Emeritus, New York University
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