Great Migrations: One Voluntary, One Not
8:00 AM on 90.3 WCPN

Most of the human cargo ferried from Africa across the Atlantic for the slave trade wound up not in the United States, but in sugar producing nations to the south. That's one of the surprising statistics in the exhaustive "Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade." The authors join us Thursday, along with Isabel Wilkerson, whose book "The Warmth of Other Suns" chronicles another great black migration, this one voluntary. Join us, Wednesday at 9:00 on The Sound of Ideas.

‘The Bluest Eye’, Sara Levine and Margaret Cogswell
12:00 PM on 90.3 WCPN

Dee Perry spotlights the new Karamu House production of Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye' opening this week. Plus Shaker Heights native Sara Levine opens the pages of her acclaimed new novel - Treasure Island!!! - tomorrow at The Shaker Heights Library. And visual artist Margaret Cogswell returns to Northeast Ohio to revisit her work Cuyahoga Fugues at Spaces Gallery.

Aaron Neville
11:00 AM on 90.3 WCPN

Dee Perry welcomes award-winning vocalist Aaron Neville who spotlights music from his latest CD - I Know I've Been Changed - prior to his performance tonight at The Tangier in Akron.

L.A. Theatre Works: Unquestioned Integrity: The Hill-Thomas Hearings
9:00 PM on 90.3 WCPN

It's the incendiary Supreme Court confirmation of Clarence Thomas in Unquestioned Integrity: The Hill-Thomas Hearings by Mame Hunt, based on the original transcripts, starring Paul Winfield, Ella Joyce, and Edward Asner.

In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement
9:00 PM on WVIZ/PBS

President Obama hosts popular musicians—including Joan Baez, Bob Dylan & Jennifer Hudson—performing music that galvanized the civil rights.

Humankind - Rubin Carter’s Hurricane
10:00 PM on 90.3 WCPN

SEGMENT 1: As dramatized in a Bob Dylan song and 'The Hurricane' starring Denzel Washington, ex-prize fighter Rubin Carter tells how he was wrongly convicted of a triple homicide and ultimately exonerated by a federal judge, and trained his mind in prison to transcend hatred. SEGMENT 2: After a court declared his murder conviction a miscarriage of justice, Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter has been a tireless advocate for other wrongly-convicted inmates who face an uphill battle behind bars, in a nation that imprisons more people than any other.

Harpist’s Legacy: Ann Hobson Pilot and the Sound Change
9:30 PM on WVIZ/PBS

Profiles the inspirational life and distinguished career of the revered harpist.

Larry Elder
8:00 AM on 90.3 WCPN

Larry Elder, who'll address American exceptionalism at the Town Hall lecture series here, paints president Obama as a big government liberal protected by an anti-Republican media. Elder is a former Clevelander who says that white racism is no longer a major problem in America and blacks would do better by voting Republican. And the housing meltdown wasn't caused by greedy Wall Street bankers, he says, but by the government. Agree? Disagree? Join our conversation, Monday 9:00 on The Sound of Ideas.

Underground Railroad: The William Still Story
9:00 PM on WVIZ/PBS

A profile of one of the most important, yet unheralded, individuals of the Underground Railroad.

Allen E. Cole Collection, Alfred Lubrano, Dianne McIntyre & Ntozake Shange
11:00 AM on 90.3 WCPN

Dee Perry focuses on the early 20th-century African-American images of Cleveland photographer Allen E. Cole on view now at The Western Reserve Historical Society. Plus Dan Polletta speaks with former Plain Dealer writer and current staff writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer Alfred Lubrano about his book 'Limbo: Blue Collar Roots, White Collar Dreams.' And Dee welcomes back acclaimed Cleveland choreographer Dianne McIntyre and award-winning playwright Ntozake Shange to spotlight their new collaborative chore-poem - 'Why I Had to Dance.'

Freedom Riders: American Experience
7:00 PM on WVIZ/PBS

In 1961, black and white Americans risked their lives traveling together in the Deep South

Maya Angelou’s Black History Month Special
9:00 PM on 90.3 WCPN

Maya Angelou defines Black History, as it is embraced in our popular culture with an emphasis on the civil rights era and a poetic acknowledgment of late activist, Rosa Parks. This one hour historical trek takes us from the 1950's thru the 1990's. Dr. Maya Angelou renders a poetic portrait of the day-to-day lives of African Americans during the civil rights era, when artists and activists, musicians and ministers joined hands with people from all walks of life to bring about a historic change in our culture.

Can Do: Stories of Black Visionaries, Seekers, and Entrepreneurs
10:00 PM on 90.3 WCPN

"Can Do: Stories of Black Visionaries, Seekers, and Entrepreneurs," with host, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actress, Alfre Woodard. These stories come from The Kitchen Sisters collection -- stories of black pioneers, self-made men and self-taught women, neighborhood hero's and visionaries. People who said "yes we can" and then did.

SLY & THE FAMILY STONE: FAMILY AFFAIR
11:00 PM on 90.3 WCPN

SLY & THE FAMILY STONE: FAMILY AFFAIR. One-hour music intensive radio documentary about Sly & the Family Stone, their music, their turbulent history, and the indelible marks they left behind. Seven musicians walked on the stage, some were black, some white, some were men, some women, and all of them were dressed in bright, colorful outfits.

‘Slavery by Another Name,’ Fashion Week and Opera in Cleveland
12:00 PM on 90.3 WCPN

Today we preview the new PBS documentary 'Slavery by Another Name,' with Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian Douglas A. Blackmon. Plus Case Western Reserve University's Mary Davis reports on Fashion Week in New York City and spotlights the acclaimed film 'Bill Cunningham New York.' And we share a short panel discussion on the state of opera in Northeast Ohio with The Cleveland Institute of Music's David Bamberger, The Plain Dealer's Don Rosenberg, and Dorota Sobieska of Opera Circle.

Slavery by Another Name
9:00 PM on WVIZ/PBS

The little-known story of post-Emancipation era labor practices and laws that effectively created a new form of slavery.

300 Miles to Freedom
10:30 PM on WVIZ/PBS

Chronicles John W. Jones’ journey to freedom on the Underground Railroad and his remarkable life as a free man in Elmira, New York.

Meshell Ndegeocello
12:00 PM on 90.3 WCPN

Dee Perry welcomes Meshell Ndegeocello prior to her performance tonight at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum for its Black Hisotry Month series - Ladies First: African-American Women Who Rock.

William’s Leap For Freedom
9:00 PM on 90.3 WCPN

Beginning with a fictionalized conversation between William Wells Brown and Mr. Polite, this audio dramatization then introduces part two of the play which features selected portions of The Escape or Leap for Freedom, as it relates to the tale of three slaves, Cato, Glen and Melinda. Brown often stated that this play specifically was autobiographical. The couple, Glen and Melinda, did exist, while Cato is Brown himself.

Rethinking Religion - The Harlem Renaissance: Music, Religion, and the Politics of Race, Part 1
10:00 PM on 90.3 WCPN

From The Columbia University Institute For Religion, Culture and Public Life, and the Luce Group, an exploration in words and music of how music, religion, and politics intersected during this rich period in African American history.

Heavenly Sight: A Vision Found
11:00 PM on 90.3 WCPN

A music documentary which tells the story of blind African American gospel singers who strongly influenced the course of American music from sacred to rock and beyond. Heavenly Sight: Black Gospel's Blind Singers Despite disability, poverty, isolation and prejudice, a surprising number of blind African American singers who came from the gospel tradition would influence not just gospel music, but blues, bluegrass, and American vernacular music up to and beyond rock and roll.

Antebellum at CPT
9:20 AM on 90.3 WCPN

The relationship between Oskar, the head of a Nazi detention camp and Gabriel, an African-American Cabaret singer being held at the camp is at the center of the Antebellum a play that bridges space, time, religion and race. Set in 1939…the story moves between Germany and a fading Atlanta plantation that’s preparing for the opening of Gone with the Wind. As Cleveland Public Theatre undertakes a production of Antebellum, playwright Robert O’Hara and director Beth Wood discuss bridging two worlds that seem unconnected to tell a tale that challenges intolerance across continents…

American Radio Works: King’s Last March
9:00 PM on 90.3 WCPN

Although it was one of the most challenging and controversial chapters of his career, the final year of King's life has not been the focus of significant public attention. This dramatic and illuminating documentary uses a rich mix of archival tape, oral histories and contemporary interviews to paint a vivid picture of what may have been the most difficult year of Dr. King's life.

BackStory - Civil War 150th: The Road to War
10:00 PM on 90.3 WCPN

To mark the sesquicentennial of the Civil War's beginnings, the History Guys take an in-depth look at the pivotal six months between Abraham Lincoln's election and the outbreak of war.

Dear Martin: Jazz Tributes to Martin Luther King Jr
11:00 PM on 90.3 WCPN

"Dear Martin" is a program of jazz tributes to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. King was a jazz fan, and eloquently expressed his admiration for the music in his opening remarks to the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival. The program features music from Oliver Nelson's 1969 album Black, Brown and Beautiful; Nina Simone's performances of "Sunday in Savannah" and "Mississippi Goddam," from a concert taped just three days after King's death in 1968; Blue Mitchell's "March on Selma"; Duke Ellington's "King Fit De Battle of Alabam"; Mary Lou Williams' "Tell Him Not to Talk Too Long"; and two 1970 recordings from Louis Armstrong.

The Plays of August Wilson
12:00 PM on 90.3 WCPN

Dee Perry hosts a special program spotlighting the plays of legendary American playwright - August Wilson - that are part of the theatrical collaboration 'The Season of August.' Dee's joined by two of the pre-emininent authorities on August Wilson's work, along with local actors and directors currently staging Wilson's plays across Northeast Ohio.

The Themes of August Wilson
3:32 PM on 90.3 WCPN

Celebrated African-American playwright August Wilson tapped into the black experience with his many works, bringing to life issues of race, history and progress. Five of his plays are being produced locally and on the next Sound of Ideas, we'll use the themes from those plays to frame a conversation on the issues facing African-Americans today. Join our panel of guests with your thoughts and questions, Tuesday at 9:00 on 90.3.