Who We Are
The American Project podcast was conceived by Osha Gray Davidson in 2019 as an independent documentary-style podcast. Episode 1 was released on January 20, 2020, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, as an introduction to the first season’s topic: Reparations for Slavery and its Legacy.
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Osha Gray Davidson
Osha is the producer and host of The American Project podcast. A freelance writer and author of five non-fiction books, Osha’s work has appeared in Rolling Stone, The Crisis, The Nation, The New York Times, Mother Jones, National Geographic, and the Huffington Post. He’s had blogs at Mother Jones and Forbes and was a contributing editor for Earthzine, a NASA-sponsored site about Earth Observation. His book, The Best of Enemies: Race and Class in the New South, was a finalist for the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and was adapted for the screen, starring Taraji P. Henson and Sam Rockwell, in 2019.
William Darity Jr. (Sandy)
Sandy, the consultant for Season 1, is a prize-winning economist, the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy in the Sanford School at Duke University and the director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke. He and A. Kirsten Mullen co-authored the book, From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century (University of North Carolina Press).