Gabrielle Bluestone joins us to talk about how Fyre is one of many examples of the way social media influencers build stories too good to be true, and why falling for those beautiful lies is part of the current Internet experience.
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‘Raunch Culture’ Is Taking Over America
Bernadette Barton, professor of sociology and gender studies at Morehead State University, joins us to talk about what she calls “raunch culture” and why its largely based in sexism.
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A Case For A Great Migration Back To The South
New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow joins us to talk about his ideas for how to create lasting social change, honor culture and memory, and fight back against systemic racism.
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Landmarks Of Slavery Abound … If You Know Where To Look
Clint Smith, a staff writer at The Atlantic, joins us to walk through four American institutions and discuss the role they’ve played in racial injustice to this day.
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We Know About Tulsa — But What Happened To Other Black Wall Streets?
Shennette Garrett-Scott, associate professor of history and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi, joins us to talk about how many Black Wall Streets actually once dotted the landscape across the country – and about how these financial centers of Black life in the late 19th and 20th Centuries were ultimately dismantled by racist policies and acts.
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A Look At Four Lost Cities … And Why They Disappeared
Annalee Newitz, contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, joins us to talk about cities that lasted millennia and then disappeared, and the answers they can provide for how we live together today.
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Should The Government Compensate Victims of Homophobic Policies?
Omar G. Encarnación, a professor of political studies at Bard College, joins us to make the case that it’s time for not only apologies from the federal government, but monetary compensation for those who were victims of laws codifying homophobia.
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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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Venture Capitalists Should Be Funding Adaptive Technologies
Devi Lockwood is an assistant editor at Rest of World, and she joins us to talk about significant advancements in technology that can help users hear, see, and talk, and what’s standing in the way of those advancements reaching the people who could use them most.
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Don’t Let Decision Fatigue Get The Best Of You
Pete Davis joins us to talk about why, in a world of endless choices, true freedom comes when we finally make a decision.
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Children Are Natural Philosophers
Jana Mohr Lone is director and founder of the University of Washington’s Center for Philosophy for Children. She joins us to talk about why children offer unique viewpoints on life’s philosophical mysteries, and why it’s important to take them seriously.
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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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