All Of It

[REBROADCAST FROM June 19, 2023] Our June Full Bio selection was King: A Life, the first comprehensive account of Martin Luther King Jr. in three decades, written by Jonathan Eig. In this installment, we discuss MLK's advisors, such as Bayard Rustin, Ralph Abernathy, and Stanley Levison. We also discuss some of MLK's lesser-known protests.

The 20th season of NYC Winter Jazzfest is underway, with shows across New York City slated over the next week. This weekend, the festival will put on two events dedicated to the historic Brooklyn Black cultural center, The East. On Saturday, a panel will discuss The East's musical legacy. On Sunday, the Crown Hill Theatre will host "A Night at the East," a concert featuring veteran musicians like Gary Bartz and Billy Hart, as well as later generation musicians like Shabaka, Moor Mother, and Luke Stewart. Stewart and his Irreversible Entanglements bandmates Aquiles Navarro and Tcheser Holmes joined us for a preview on January 10, and they stuck around to record one more song. Ahead of their shows this weekend, here's "Pueblo."

In the new Yorgos Lanthamos film "Poor Things," Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) is the product of an experiment in which an infant brain has been placed inside an adult woman's body. As she discovers her sexuality, social expectations placed on women, and explores the world, she begins to challenge the men around her as she forms her own ideas about life. Screenwriter Tony McNamara joins us to discuss writing this unusual character, and we are also joined by Ramy Youssef, who stars in the film as Max, a gentle student who falls in love with Bella.  

Britney Spears released her debut album ...Baby One More Time on January 12, 1999. It was one of the highest selling albums of 1999 and became one of the best selling albums by a female singer or debut artist of all time. On its 25th anniversary, we revisit the album with music journalist Annie Zaleski and New Yorker contributing writer Lauren Michele Jackson, as part of our series Silver Liner Notes.

Folk duo The Milk Carton Kids are nominated for the Grammy for Best Folk Album for their latest LP, I Only See the Moon. Bandmates Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale join us for a Listening Party as part of our run-up to February's Grammy ceremony.  

Groundbreaking supermodel Beverly Johnson joins us to discuss her new one-woman show, "Beverly Johnson: IN VOGUE," which recounts her life and career and honors the 50th anniversary Johnson becoming the first Black woman to feature on the cover of American Vogue. The show is running at 59E59 theater B through February 4th.

Writer Erika Howsare talks about her new book, The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wildest Neighbors, which explores the complicated relationship between urban environments and an animal that's considered a symbol of wildlife as much as it is a problematic pest and a danger to drivers.

Abigail Echo-Hawk, the director of the Urban Indian Health Institute, shares updates on her longstanding work to gather data on missing and murdered Indigenous women, and discusses how accurate metrics can help Native communities access resources. Plus, she explains some of the obstacles to actually gathering that data from indigenous communities, and the real, material costs when marginalized people are under-counted.

Whether you are looking for a beach trip, a train journey or a large scale adventure, this is the time to start booking for 2024. New York Times editor and photographer Stephen Hiltner joins to highlight some picks from the new feature "52 Places to Go in 2024," and we'll take listener calls about their plans for 2024 trips.

As we head into the long weekend, you may have more leisure time to spend with your kids, your partner, or just yourself! Winter in New York gets a bad rap when compared to other seasons, so we're taking the opportunity to shoutout all the ways to have winter fun in our city and surrounding area. All Of It producers Kate Hinds, Jordan Lauf, Simon Close, Luke Green and L. Malik Anderson give their recommendations, and we take your calls.

NYC Winter Jazzfest kicks of its 20th season today, with shows across New York City slated over the next week. This weekend, the festival will put on two events dedicated to the historic Brooklyn Black cultural center, The East. On Saturday, a panel will discuss The East's musical legacy. On Sunday, the Crown Hill Theatre will host "A Night at the East," a concert featuring veteran musicians like Gary Bartz and Billy Hart, as well as later generation musicians like Shabaka, Moor Mother, and Luke Stewart. We discuss the events with Basir Mchawi, a former magazine editor for The East, and Marcus Moore, who co-curated the concert with Jazzfest founder Brice Rosenbloom. Stewart and his Irreversible Entanglements bandmates Aquiles Navarro and Tcheser Holmes also join to perform live in the studio.

Today is the 100th birthday of the late great jazz drummer and composer Max Roach, who played alongside some of the greatest jazz musicians in history throughout his storied career. This month, there are three concerts planned for the Max Roach Centennial. Drummer Nasheet Waits and Max's son Raoul Roach join us to discuss the genius of Max Roach, his life, and the concerts. The first two concerts will be taking place on January 19 and 20 at Lincoln Center, and the final concert will be at NJPAC on January 26.

You can great tea of different varieties all around the five boroughs. Eater reporter Caroline Shin wrote a list of her favorite tea shops in New York, "14 Places to Try Tea in NYC," and she joins to tell us more and take your calls shouting out your favorite tea shops.

Today on the show, we're spending the first hour talking about tea as we cozy up for the winter. Tea has a long complex history in the world, and has been a staple of our drinking habits for thousands of years since its origins in China. But there's also a darker history to tea, due to the influence of colonization efforts by western nations. Writer Charlene Wang de Chen, who wrote an article for Smithsonian Magazine, "What Emoji Tell Us About the History of Tea," joins to give us a history lesson and also take your calls about how you like to make your tea!

Jeffrey Wright stars in Cord Jefferson's new film, "American Fiction," as a well-respected but commercially unsuccessful novelist who decides to write a book full of stereotypical tropes. Wright joins to discuss his role, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination. "American Fiction" is in theaters now.

Angel Island is located in San Francisco Bay, and from 1910 to 1940, it served as the West Coast's primary immigration facility. It also functioned as a detention center, where hundreds of thousands of people, primarily Chinese, were held in often brutal and dehumanizing conditions. The new opera, "Angel Island," expands on the story, and is running at BAM from Jan. 11-13. The show's composer, Huang Ruo, and director, Matthew Ozawa, join us for a preview.  

For nearly 5 years, writer Dani Shapiro has hosted a podcast called Family Secrets inspired by her best selling memoir, Inheritance, in which she found out a huge secret about her family in midlife. She and her guests discuss family secrets, both life altering and truly mysterious. She joins to take listener calls about their own family secrets.  

In the Broadway staging of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Obie-winning play "Appropriate," Sarah Paulson stars as Toni, a woman dealing with the fallout from a gruesome discovery among her late father's things. Toni and her brothers, who are cleaning out the old family plantation home, must decide what to do with this explosive artifact. Jacobs-Jenkins, Paulson, and director Lila Neugebauer join us to discuss the show, which is running at the Hayes Theater through March 3.  

In her new book, psychologist Dr. Mariel Buqué gently reminds readers that "intergenerational healing requires you to feel like the work is safe and tolerable." The book is titled, Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma, and Dr. Buqué joins us to discuss tips for addressing trauma as well as how it affects both the mind and body.

Maybe the start of a new year isn't the best time to think about the end of the world... or maybe it's the perfect time! Clyde Folley returns to the show to discuss the new series he's curated for the Criterion Channel, Postapocalyptic Sci-Fi, which includes films throughout the Cold War period from the 60s through the 80s. Plus, we take listener calls to hear what your favorite postapocalyptic film is.