December 1, 2023 - The Culture Show talks sound towns and cultural centers

The Culture Show Podcast · Dec 1, 2023 · 50m

First up, what happens when a people’s cultural identity becomes a casualty of war? Throughout history monuments, cultural sites, artworks and artifacts have become collateral damage. Now Gaza is surveying the wreckage of Israel’s airstrikes, which have reduced more than 100 landmarks to rubble. Then a new docuseries excavates Boston’s fraught history of racism and segregation by way of the 1989 Charles Stuart murder scandal. It reflects on how law enforcement and the media fueled a race-baiting falsehood. And, move over Barbenheimer, it’s time for Beyonswift. That’s what happens when one…