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Moyers & Company Show 132: Confronting the Contradictions of America’s Past.

From: Moyers & Company
Series: Moyers & Company
Length: 53:00

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PLEASE NOTE: Program-specific and generic promos available now. Full show available Friday, August 17th. Learning from our racial past is crucial to addressing America’s current ethnic tensions, but only if we confront key historical contradictions. In an encore broadcast of Moyers & Company (check local listings), Khalil Muhammad helps bring these issues to light. Muhammad heads the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and is the author of The Condemnation of Blackness, which connects American histories of race, crime and the making of urban America to modern headlines. Read the full description.

Bill_image_small_small PLEASE NOTE: Program-specific and generic promos available now. Full show available Friday, August 17th. Learning from our racial past is crucial to addressing America’s current ethnic tensions, but only if we confront key historical contradictions. In an encore broadcast of Moyers & Company (check local listings), Khalil Muhammad helps bring these issues to light. Muhammad heads the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and is the author of The Condemnation of Blackness, which connects American histories of race, crime and the making of urban America to modern headlines.

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Timing and Cues

Timing and Cues
Timings are as they occur with a 5-minute news hole after the billboard.

Moyers & Company 132 Billboard: 00:00 – 01:00
In cue: [MUSIC] "I’m Bill Moyers. This week on Moyers & Company"
Out cue: "...after the news."

NPR Newscast Hole: 1:00 - 6:00

Moyers & Company 132 -- Segment 1: 6:00 – 29:00
In cue: [MUSIC] "Welcome, I’m Bill Moyers and you’re listening to Moyers & Company..."
Out cue: "… we’ll talk more with my guest, Khalil Jabran Mohammad."

Station Break: 29:00 – 30:00

Moyers & Company 132– Segment 2: 30:00 – 59:00
In cue: [MUSIC] “I’m Bill Moyers and this is Moyers & Company. My guest is historian... "
Out cue: "…that’s why we’re your retirement company"

Musical Works

Title Artist Album Label Year Length
TBD Jamie Lawrence Moyers and Company. Label: Good Mood Records LLC Publisher: Elliot Music Co. Inc. ASCAP 2012 00:00

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