OiYan Poon, co-director of the College Admissions Futures Co-Laborative, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the diversity of feelings about the affirmative action ruling among Asian Americans.
Read moreThere’s more to American history than what white people did
Michael Harriot, a columnist at theGrio.com, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss a new way to look at historical narratives – one that reworks the American story to include the voices most often overlooked.
Read moreThe real beneficiaries of affirmative action
Writer Bertrand Cooper makes the case that race-conscious admissions by universities frequently benefit students who are already from elite backgrounds and that it’s time to also consider socioeconomic status.
Read moreWhat it’s like being a Black mom in a white community
Senior culture writer at The Washington Post Helena Andrews-Dyer talks about raising a Black child in a predominately white, upper-middle-class world, where her concerns about race led her to consider larger themes of belonging.
Read moreWhy Black Americans live sicker and die quicker
Professor Linda Villarosa joins us to talk about why Black Americans are dying sooner and have worse health outcomes than their white counterparts.
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 moreThe importance of mentors for Black boys
Will Jawando is an attorney, activist and councilman. He discusses the seven men who mentored him at critical times in his life who, he says, made him the leader he is today.
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 moreThe unintended consequences of a racism awareness exercise
Stephen G. Bloom joins us to discuss an exercise that separated children by eye color to mimic racism and why we might now question the results
Read moreWhere do Asian-Americans ‘fit’?
Jay Caspian Kang joins us to talk about the evolution of what it means to be Asian-American – and about his own family’s story as they moved across the country to find their footings.
Read moreA Black scholar’s contrarian take on antiracism
Columbia University’s John McWhorter joins us to make the case that people of color are sometimes harmed by well-meaning antiracists who sometimes lose sight of the thing they are fighting against.
Read moreThe numbers are in: A look at the 2020 census
NPR’s Hansi Lo Wang joins us to explore what the latest numbers say about the country’s racial makeup – and how this snapshot of America drives everything from federal spending to representation in Congress.
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