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July 30, 1945 - The USS Indianapolis and its 1,196-man crew is making its way toward a small island in the South Pacific. The ship is sailing unescorted, assured by headquarters the waters are safe. It is midnight, and Marine Edgar Harrell and several others have sacked out on deck rather than spend the night in their hot and muggy quarters below. Fresh off a top-secret mission to deliver uranium for the atomic bombs that would ultimately end World War II, they are unaware their ship is being watched.

Dive into the life and career of D.W. Griffith, the man who boldly claimed the title Father of Filmmaking. This authorized biography, penned by Robert Edgar Long in collaboration with Griffith himself, takes you on a journey through his early years, his time on stage, his rise to prominence as a visionary filmmaker at Biograph, and the creation of his groundbreaking and contentious feature films such as The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, and Broken Blossoms. Get a deeper understanding of these cinema classics and the man behind them in this podcast episode, summarized by ChuckW.

Just some two South Side Dudes from Chicago just wanting to be heard! Follow us on Instagram @LosKallejeros PodcastHost Edgar @SilvaEdgar23 Host David @ChicagoNative91 on IG

John Edgar Wideman, acclaimed since the early 1970s for his award-winning fiction and memoirs, has long been engaged in a project to redefine, from the perspective of an American of color, the wondrous and appalling power of his country’s literary culture and history. Now, curated by him, in this first-time collection from his extensive body of long-form journalism and biographical essays, listeners are offered a chance to see and judge for themselves how Wideman has proven himself to be a luminous witness of America’s history.

John Edgar Wideman’s “slaveroad” is a palimpsest of physical, social, and psychological terrain, the great expanse to which he writes in this groundbreaking work that unsettles the boundaries of memoir, history, and fiction. The slaveroad begins with the Atlantic Ocean, across which enslaved Africans were carried, but the term comes to encompass the journeys and experiences of Black Americans since then and the many insidious ways that slavery separates, wounds, and persists.

No single figure in 20th-century American history inspires such opposing opinions as J. Edgar Hoover, the iconic first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In his time he was arguably the most powerful nonelected figure in the US government. Serving under eight presidents (and outliving two of them), he remains the longest-serving head of a major government office. To many Americans in the '30s, '40s, and '50s, J. Edgar Hoover was a real American hero.