Encore: From fadeaways to the runway, 'Fly' documents the world of NBA fashion
A new book explores the intersection of fashion and professional basketball players
More from Under the Radar
-
New documentary features African students at MIT and their journey far from home
Under the Radar sits down with the director and a student featured in "Brief Tender Light," a new film about four African students navigating their studies at the world's premier engineering school. -
Two experts unpack Barbra Streisand's long-awaited memoir
Barbra Streisand spent a decade writing 'My Name is Barbra,' and fans and critics alike have heaped praise onto the 1,000 page book. -
Why some grocery stores are rejecting self-checkout and replacing them with humans
Critics argue it is finally time to check out of self-checkout. -
Under the Radar Book Club: Geraldine Brooks’ ‘Horse’
Our encore pick for Bookmarked: The Under the Radar Book Club.
Under the Radar podcast
-
Mass Politics Profs: Will upcoming VP debate carry more weight than usual with voters?
The Mass Politics Profs are back! This week: JD Vance and Tim Walz will face off for the only vice-presidential debate of the election season. Is this year’s VP debate more significant than past ones? Also, is anti-immigration, nativist narratives working for Trump, or are they pushing more voters toward Vice President Kamala Harris? And locally, John Deaton takes on sitting Senator Elizabeth Warren, and the latest news regarding ballot questions facing voters this November. It’s an hour of national, state, and local analysis with our political scientists roundtable. -
From historic Emmy wins, to Beyoncé's country snub: Are award shows actually diversifying?
Our pop culture experts are back! After two Emmy ceremonies just this year, could the excellence in television award show be leading the charge on Hollywood’s diversity efforts? Meanwhile, the Country Music Awards have snubbed Beyonce, who received zero nominations for her critically acclaimed and record-breaking country album, “Cowboy Carter.” Plus, Kendrick Lamar scores the Super Bowl halftime show, the shocking charges behind Sean “Diddy” Combs’s arrest and bidding farewell to three titans of entertainment: James Earl Jones, Tito Jackson and Frankie Beverly. -
‘Morning Pages’ tells a play-within-a-play story of a woman figuring out her many life roles
Author Kate Feiffer’s first adult novel “Morning Pages” is a play within a play: the main character is a playwright and much of her internal dialogue is on the page as scenes from a play. Moreover, she’s turned to a popular daily artist’s exercise to jumpstart her imagination. It’s fair to say that “Morning Pages” is pretty meta. All that as the fictional Elise Hellman is caught in a life’s passage tending to the needs of an aging mother and a teenage son. “Morning Pages” is our September selection for “Bookmarked: The Under the Radar Book Club.” -
10 years before Garrity, Bostonians attempted to desegregate schools in city's 'true civil rights movement'
In 1964, Wendell Arthur Garrity was United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts – not yet a judge on the District Court of Massachusetts. Ruth Batson was a frustrated parent and civil rights activist – not yet director of Boston’s Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity, or Metco, the voluntary desegregation program. Louise Day Hicks was a member of Boston’s School Board – not yet the leader of ROAR: Restore Our Alienated Rights – and the face of white opposition to the integration of Boston Public Schools. Ten years later, they would all be major players in the battle to desegregate Boston Public Schools. As the city marks 50 years since Judge Garrity’s ruling on busing, we consider the importance of the period before busing – a time expert Zebulon Miletsky refers to as Boston’s ‘true civil rights movement.’ -
50 years after busing, two sisters confront their trauma in new GBH documentary
In September, 1974 – two days after her 14th birthday – Leola Hampton boarded a school bus that would launch her into the heart of one of the most divisive and defining moments in Boston history: court-ordered school desegregation. She and her older sister, Linda Stark, were bused from their home in the predominantly Black neighborhood of Roxbury into the white, working-class neighborhood of South Boston. They navigated a violent and virulently racist high school experience so scarring that a half-century later, they are only now beginning to discuss it with each other. In a new documentary called “‘Never Cried’: Boston’s Busing Legacy,” produced by GBH News’ Emily Judem and Stephanie Leydon, Leola and Linda, along with their family and experts in local history and trauma, share their story.