On this special one-hour edition of the WBGO Journal...
A surprising story about Newark student journals from the 1800's from what is now Barringer High School that are headed to the Library of Congress..
![One of the sketches in the then Newark High School (now Barringer) student journals from the 1800's](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/6da4141/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1800x1398+0+0/resize/880x683!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F6e%2Ff8%2Fbb40a1b3457195c08ecad08f3646%2Fstudent-journal-horse-carriage.jpeg)
WBGO’s Gary Walker chats with legendary bassist Rufus Reid about his upcoming Lifetime achievement award from Wharton Arts…
WBGO's Jon Kalish has the story of a man in Western Massachusetts who destroyed a weather tower erected to gather data for two proposed nuclear power plants in the town of Montague. That act of civil disobedience ignited what became a nationwide movement to stop the construction of nuclear power plants.
Host Doug Doyle chats with seven-time Grammy Award winner and two-time Oscar nominee, trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard. Blanchard is the host and executive producer of the New Orleans based doc Up From The Streets...
![Terence Blanchard](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/e1b9b65/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1000x770+0+0/resize/880x678!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F46%2F51%2F1a3afc6f44e28afe0ab9bc68fff4%2Fap19035689751472-1-1000x770.jpg)
And WBGO Film Critic Harlan Jacobson previews the 96th Academy Awards competition