Megan Garber from The Atlantic talks about the media landscape that has brought us to this divided point in American history.
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How Black Artists Push Past Gatekeepers
This hour, host Krys Boyd talks about gatekeeping and Black expression with a prominent attorney who works with Black artists to sign fair contracts, a writer who mined her own experiences in the music industry for her latest Y.A. novel, and an English professor who studies gatekeeping during one of the most celebrated periods of Black expression – the Harlem Renaissance.
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There Are Lots Of Ways To Be A Man
Matthew Gutmann, professor of anthropology at Brown University, joins us to talk about the enduring ideas that men are aloof, unable to control primal impulses, and are wired to dominate — and how wrong and harmful they are.
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Politics And The Birth Of The Blockbuster
Film critic J. Hoberman joins guest host Courtney Collins to talk about how movies dive into the themes American audiences yearned for.
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