Imani Perry is a National Book Award–winning author, Henry A. Morss Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and a 2023 MacArthur Fellow. She joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the significance of the color from indigo cultivation, singing the blues, even how “Blue Lives Matter” was used to counteract “Black Lives Matter” protests.
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Peniel Joseph is the Barbara Jordan Chair in Political Values and Ethics at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. He joins us to assess the current push for racial equality – from the election of Barack Obama to Black Lives Matter.
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Emerald Garner, executive director of the non-profit We Can’t Breathe Inc. discusses her personal essays about the community that rallied around her in the wake of her father’s death.
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Peniel Joseph is the Barbara Jordan Chair in Political Values and Ethics at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. He joins us to assess the current push for racial equality – from the election of Barack Obama to Black Lives Matter.
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Omar Wasow, assistant professor in the Department of Politics at Princeton and co-founder of BlackPlanet.com, joins us to talk about protest tactics that work and why.
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Peniel E. Joseph, founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin, joins us to talk about how these protests resemble demonstrations of the Civil Rights era – and how social media and video footage have changed how people protest.
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Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin join us to talk about the many ways black Americans resist the forces against them every day. Their collection of interviews is called, “How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance.”
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Barbara Ransby joins us to talk about what Black Lives Matter has accomplished – and about how it fits into the greater context of the Civil Rights movement.
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DeRay McKesson joins us to make the case that there’s a path to healing.
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Documentarian Sabaah Folayan joins us to talk about turning Ferguson bystander footage into a portrait of unrest that differs from the more traditional media presentation.
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New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb joins us to talk about how Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street and other groups are following Martin Luther King Jr’s model of civil disobedience.
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America’s racial unrest has manifested itself this year in everything from #OscarsSoWhite to Black Lives Matter. This hour, we’ll talk about where we go from here with Jeff Chang, executive director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University.
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