Strange Fruit
Jaison Gardner and Dr. Kaila Story talk race, gender, and LGBTQ issues, from politics to pop culture. A new episode every week, from Louisville Public Media.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 350
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2020
Strange Fruit #89: Unpacking White Privilege. Plus, America's Favorite Desserts!
In the late 1990's, feminist and anti-racist activist Peggy McIntosh described white privilege as "an invisible weightless knapsack of assurances, tools, maps, guides, codebooks, passports, visas, cl…
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Fri 17 Oct 2014
Strange Fruit #88: SCOTUS Does Everything By Doing Nothing; Raven-Symone & the Usefulness of Labels
This week, the Supreme Court decided not to hear the marriage equality cases that were pending in Virginia, Indiana, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Utah. By doing so, they legalized same-sex marriage in ma…
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Fri 10 Oct 2014
Strange Fruit #88: Promo
This week on Strange Fruit, Fairness Campaign Director Chris Hartman joins us to talk about this week's Supreme Court decision (or lack thereof) about same sex marriage. We also give a shout out to t…
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Fri 10 Oct 2014
Ali Awards Red Carpet: Susan Sarandon
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Fri 03 Oct 2014
Ali Awards Red Carpet: Kid President
Kid President is an internet celebrity! kidpresident.com
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Fri 03 Oct 2014
Ali Awards Red Carpet: Matt Lauer
Matt Lauer has been co-anchor of NBC News’ TODAY since January 6, 1997. He joined TODAY in January 1994 as the show’s news anchor.
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Fri 03 Oct 2014
Ali Awards Red Carpet: Jim Brown
Football player and actor Jim Brown is best known for his record-setting nine-year career as a running back for the NFL Cleveland Browns from 1957 to 1965. He was also a supporter of Muhammad Ali's a…
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Fri 03 Oct 2014
Ali Awards Red Carpet: Holly Robinson Peete
Actress, author, and activist Holly Robinson Peete advocates for and writes about people living with Autism and Parkinson's disease. She's best known to us 80's babies for her role on Hangin' with Mr…
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Fri 03 Oct 2014
Ali Awards Red Carpet: William Mapother
Actor and Louisville native William Mapother has appeared in the films Born on the Fourth of July, and Magnolia, done extensive theater work, and was in the cast of the TV show Lost.
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Fri 03 Oct 2014
Ali Awards Red Carpet: Pamela Brown
Pamela Brown serves as a CNN Justice correspondent covering crime and justice issues, including law enforcement and the Supreme Court.
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Fri 03 Oct 2014
Ali Awards Red Carpet: Kennedy Odede, Thalia Leman, and Mastura Rashid
Kennedy Odede, age 29 of Kenya, received the Dedication honor for his Work with Shining Hope for Communities. Kennedy is the president and CEO of Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO). SHOFCO’s curre…
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Fri 03 Oct 2014
Strange Fruit #87: Susan Sarandon, Janelle Monáe & the WWE's Damien Sandow
It's been a star-studded week for Team Strange Fruit! We spent some time recently on the red carpet at the 2nd Annual Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards, where we got to chat with celebrities and honor…
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Fri 03 Oct 2014
Strange Fruit #86: Artist Turns Demolished Public Housing into... a Bee Sanctuary?
It's Idea Festival time in Louisville, and that means cool people who do cool things descend on our city to talk about the things they're doing! We chatted with one of those folks, Juan Williams Chàv…
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Fri 26 Sep 2014
Strange Fruit #85: Mondo Guerra on HIV Awareness; the History of Black Musicians in Jug Band Music
It's a busy weekend in Louisville! The Louisville AIDS Walk takes place this Sunday on the Belvedere, and one of this year's special guests is fashion designer Mondo Guerra. Mondo came out as HIV pos…
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Fri 19 Sep 2014
How Louisville's Local 236 Fought for Racial Integration in the 1950s
Labor historian Toni Gilpin will make two appearances in Louisville tomorrow to tell the little-known story of a local labor union that was ahead of its time. A local chapter of the United Farm Machi…
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Mon 15 Sep 2014
SF #84: Journalist Chris Tomlinson Explores His Family's Relationship with Slavery & Its Legacy
“There are black people in town who have the same last name as me, and I never thought about why that might be.” Author Chris Tomlinson says he hears that a lot while touring for his recent book, cal…
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Sat 13 Sep 2014
Strange Fruit #83: TransGriot Monica Roberts; High School Poets Write about Identity
You know her from her groundbreaking work as the TransGriot, and a frequent commentator on Strange Fruit. We know her as our Auntie Monica! Award-winning blogger Monica Roberts stopped by the Strange…
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Fri 05 Sep 2014
Strange Fruit #82: Trans Parenthood, Preventing Rape with Cosmetics, and Beyoncé's F-Word
In many ways, Nick and Bianca Bowser are very typical parents. They have two children; Kai is three and Pax is one. "We are exhausted all the time," Nick laughs. "We both work at a bar, so we both wo…
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Fri 29 Aug 2014
Promo: Strange Fruit #82
Nick Bowser and his wife Bianca are both transgender, and have made national headlines for following their own unique path to parenthood. This week, we'll talk to Nick about what it means to be a fam…
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Fri 29 Aug 2014
Vintage Fruit: Does Your Mama Know? #TBT
On our very first episode EVER (September, 2012), we talked about how, when someone comes out of the closet in the black community, the first thing people ask is, "Does your mama know?" Until a perso…
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Thu 28 Aug 2014
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