In 1989, a horrible murder that was reported and investigated as a carjacking gone wrong sparked a national outcry. But it was ultimately revealed to be false story and caused tremendous hurt in an already marginalized community. Director Jason Hehir joins to talk about his docuseries, “Murder in Boston,” which revisits the Charles Stuart case where a white man blamed his own crime on a Black man.
In 2022, the sheriff of Lewis County, New York, changed his Facebook profile to a picture of him holding up an award he won from the Oath Keepers. The post was after Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was arrested and charged for his role in the January 6 insurrection. This got North Country Public Radio reporters Emily Russell and Zach Hirsch interested in learning more about the far-right movement upstate. What they found out is the subject of the podcast, If All Else Fails, and the first episode is out now. Hirsch and Russell join us to discuss.
This year, James Baldwin would be turning 100 years old. To celebrate his centennial, Film Forum is hosting a screening series of Baldwin-related films. “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” is the first documentary to screen in the series. The film, directed by Dick Fontaine and Pat Hartley and released in 1982, was made with Baldwin, and chronicles his trip to the South twenty years after the end of the Civil Rights Movement. “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” was recently restored, and is screening at Film Forum through January 25. Hartley joins us to discuss the film alongside scholar and Baldwin expert Rich Blint, and we take your calls.
Walasse Ting: New York, New York is the inaugural exhibition of Alisan Fine Arts new location on the Upper East Side. It focuses on Ting’s time in New York City from the 1950s to the 1990s. We hear from the director of the gallery Daniel Chen, along with Ting’s daughter, Mia Ting about the work and the artist behind it. The show is on view through February 16.
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