Maya Cueva discusses her PBS documentary following three Latinx people and their connection to the last reproductive health clinic on the Texas side of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Read moreHow immigrants use food to connect their old and new lives
Madhushree Ghosh talks about her memoir, taking us on a trip through America to South Asia, where she recounts the recipes that have given her insight into her own rich lived experiences.
Read moreThe larger story of the Atlanta spa shootings
May Jeong discusses the victims and survivors of the Atlanta spa shootings and paints a picture of how violence against Asian communities is part of a long history of racism in the U.S.
Read moreHow lesbian culture went mainstream
Jill Gutowitz discusses her personal essays about how lesbian culture went mainstream and her own place in it, using pop culture as a measure of society’s values.
Read moreShe found freedom by leaving America
Tiffanie Drayton discusses her move as a child to the U.S. – where she experienced racism – and her decision as a young adult to move back to Tobago.
Read moreWomen shouldn’t have to lean in more than men
Reshma Saujani explains why women cannot just “lean in” to inequality in the workplace – and why it’s time for a paradigm shift in corporate policy.
Read moreWhat the South has to say about America
Imani Perry discusses her return to her Southern home in Alabama with fresh eyes, weaving in the stories of the good-tempered with a darker history.
Read moreLife is different on the other side of cancer
Suleika Jaouad joins us to talk about the cancer that left her fighting for life at a young age and how she’s reimagined what the future holds now that she’s cancer-free.
Read moreLife as the daughters of immigrants
Daphne Palasi Andreades discusses her new novel, where five daughters of immigrants become friends for life but are tested when views on ambition, loyalty and class begin to diverge.
Read moreThe case for talking about race at work
Y-Vonne Hutchinson joins us to talk about how employees can have frank and honest conversations with management about race and achieve real results.
Read moreWhat life is like in an open relationship
Rachel Krantz discusses navigating her relationship with a partner who preferred non-monogamy and her search for connection inside an open relationship.
Read moreThe story of America’s last slave ship
Tara Roberts of National Geographic discusses why she quit her job to join a group of Black underwater divers searching for trans-Atlantic slave ship history.
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