Monday, Jan. 19, 2004 | The Kojo Nnamdi Show

Remembering when the call to "Play ball!" in Washington was answered by the Homestead Grays.

He's been described as America's social conscience. For more than fifty years, Joe Glazer has been writing, collecting, and performing songs of political protest and social commentary. He joins Kojo to reflect on his career and the...

He's been called "America's de facto poet laureate." Hear the wonderful funky, blues poetry of urban wordsmith Sekou Sundiata.

How chess can turn at-risk kids into kings and queens.

A debut novel tackles an unheard part of American history-- how during slavery there were blacks who owned other blacks.