Nefertiti Austin joins us to talk about how America thinks of single, black motherhood.
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The White Supremacy Of Pro Sports
Howard Bryant joins us to talk about how America’s ongoing conversation about race so often spills onto the court and field.
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The United States Of Xenophobia
Erika Lee, director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota, us to talk about how our country’s fear of the “other” has been with us since the beginning — and how our historical amnesia is holding back healing.
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The Indian Children Stolen By The Federal Government
Nick Estes, a member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, joins us to talk about how generations of tribes grapple with the brutal legacy of trauma inflicted by the U.S. government on Native American children.
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All She Wanted Was To Be A Single Black Mother
Nefertiti Austin joins us to talk about what that painstaking process taught her about how America thinks of single, black motherhood.
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When A White Supremacist Attended Shabbat
Derek Black and Matthew Stevenson join us to talk about the time Matthew invited Derek to attend a Shabbat dinner – and how that interaction paved the way to a new understanding.
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The Nerdy Brilliance Of Comedian Hari Kondabolu
Comic Hari Kondabolu joins us to talk about his comedy style, his Netflix special, and that graduate degree in human rights he earned from the London School of Economics.
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If You Need A Court-Appointed Lawyer, Watch Out
Journalist Neena Satija joins us in Austin to discuss how Texas’ approach to public defense is failing low-income citizens.
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The Extraordinary Eye of Gordon Parks
Senior Curator of Photographs at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, John Rohrbach joins us to talk about the work of the first African American staff photographer for Life Magazine, Gordon Parks.
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White People Problems
Psychologist Natasha Stovall joins us to talk about why it’s taboo to study how white patients worry, reckon, or rage about their place in the social system.
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The Politics of Water
NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorney Sparky Abraham joins guest host John McCaa to talk about how lack of water access contributes to the nation’s economic divide.
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‘Race Science’ Is Still a Thing
BBC science reporter Angela Saini joins us to talk about why some scientists cling to the idea that race is a biological characteristic instead of a social construct.
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