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.
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The 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.
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The 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
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Where 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.
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A 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.
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The 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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A 1968 Report Could’ve Brought Us Closer to Racial Justice, But We Ignored It
Columbia University journalism professor Jelani Cobb has written a new introduction for the Kerner Commission Report, and he joins us to discuss why the document is a landmark of American history and remains salient today.
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Latino Identity Contains Multitudes
Héctor Tobar, a professor of journalism and Chicano/Latino studies at the University of California, Irvine, joins us to discuss his 9,000-mile road trip across America to understand Latino communities and their widely-varying beliefs.
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American Racism, As Viewed From Abroad
Brenda Gayle Plummer is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and she joins us to talk about the deeply rooted tradition of fighting anti-Black racism by appealing to other countries, and what the global protest movement means for our democracy.
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Is Diabetes Research Actually Harming Black Americans?
James Doucet-Battle, assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, joins us to talk about the prevalence of diabetes in Black America – and to make the case that health researchers must completely rethink assumptions when it comes to the intersection of race and health.
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In Texas Politics, It’s No Holds Barred
Journalist Bill Minutaglio joins us to talk about the state’s long history of conflict, violence, backroom deals, and bravado that’s created its political framework.
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How We Got To BIPOC
Christopher MacDonald-Dennis is chief diversity officer at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, and he joins us to talk about the evolution of BIPOC and similar terms – and why some people embrace them while others don’t.
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