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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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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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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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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Larissa Pham joins us to talk about her memoir, a travelogue that combines her love of art and music and ultimately helped her map a way home.
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Nesrine Malik is a columnist and features writer for the Guardian, and she joins us to talk about how “wokeness,” “political correctness,” “free speech,” “cancel culture” and other shorthand terms are used to both drive and tamp down social justice movements.
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University scholar Edward Slingerland joins us to discuss why many organisms — human and otherwise — like to tie one on now and again and the effect that has had on our societies.
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Elizabeth Stokoe, professor of social interaction at Loughborough University, joins us to talk about how personal interactions and niceties reveal our motives – and we’ll get tips for having more meaningful conversations.
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Laine Nooney, assistant professor of media and information studies at New York University, joins us to talk about the ailments brought about computer usage – and about the trouble with shutting down your work computer for the day only to pick up your tablet.
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Leadership expert Erica Dhawan joins us to talk about the clues and cues needed for successful online dialogue and how to make working from home work for you.
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We’ll talk with three women who are pushing back against certain societal expectations on how a woman should look and move through the world.
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Brandolon Barnett is head of corporate social responsibility industry solutions in Salesforce.org’s philanthropy cloud and leader of the Democratize Ventures investing and advisory institute. He joins us to talk about his experience establishing a career in the non-profit sector during difficult economic times.
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