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Writer and filmmaker John Sayles joins Tom to discuss his historical novel, "Crucible," about industrialist Henry Ford’s impact on labor and racial politics 100 years ago.

Important memoirs from women whose lives have been shaped by literature, politics, and love.

David Blight, acclaimed biographer of Frederick Douglass, recalls the famed Black orator's 1852 speech contrasting the promises of our Declaration of Independence with the horrors of slavery.

Author and assoc. professor of history at University of Baltimore Joshua Clark Davis joins us to discuss his new history of the 1960s civil rights movement, seen through the lens of its resistance to police violence.

Tom talks with the President and CEO of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Lisa Lawson.

Guest host Dr. Carla Hayden, ex-Librarian of Congress and former CEO of Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Library, explores Black history books, talks with the Pratt's current CEO and meets members of a youth literacy group.

American journalist and author Wil Haygood discusses his new book, "The War Within A War," about the Blacks who served in Vietnam and confronted racism both in the ranks and on the home front.

Some journeys take us to places beyond our imagination.

In his imaginitive new novel, "Vigil," author George Saunders explores themes of life and death, good and evil, corruption and absolution.

In her soon-to-be-published memoir "What Ever Happened to Eddy Crane?" journalist Kate Crane shares her life-long search for clues to her father's 1987 disappearance — and suspected murder.