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Traveling With A Migrant Caravan

September 30, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Global Issues

Filmmaker Nick Quested joins us to talk about embedding with Guatemalan immigrants bound for the U.S. border.

A Meritocracy Leaves Many Unfairly Behind

September 29, 2020 Culture, Economics, History

Harvard government professor Michael J. Sandel joins us to talk about how many of America’s problems can be traced to a lack of concern over what’s best for society.

The Origins Of The Satanic Panic

September 29, 2020 Culture, Current Events, History

Journalist Jen Gerson joins us to discuss how and why the daycare “satanic panic” of the 1990s set the stage for the bizarre child abuse stories seen today.

One Attorney’s Crusade Against Racism In The Law

September 28, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Education, Politics, Race/Identity

Brittany K. Barnett is an attorney who helped win executive clemency from President Obama for seven of her clients and an entrepreneur focused on social impact investing. She joins us to talk about being the daughter of an incarcerated mother, her pro bono legal work, and her resolve to challenge the status quo.

The Night 5 Officers Died In Dallas

September 28, 2020 Culture, Current Events, History

Jamie Thompson, a contributing editor for D Magazine, joins us to talk about the viewpoints of bystanders and key players to offer a 360-degree view of events.

America Has A Caste System, Too

September 25, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Global Issues, History, Race/Identity

Isabel Wilkerson is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a National Humanities Medal and a National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and she joins us to talk about the categories Americans are born into that rank us and grade us through no action of our own.

What Our Secrets Say About Ourselves

September 24, 2020 Culture, Science and Technology

Michael L. Slepian, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Associate Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School, joins us to talk about the things we choose to hide and if we should trust others with the secrets we share.

A 40-Year Look at Racism In North Texas

September 24, 2020 Culture, History, Race/Identity

Bob Ray Sanders, a former reporter and editor with both the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and KERA, joins us to talk about the documentary “At the Crossroads … Again,” which looks back at four decades of North Texas race relations and how these stories are covered in the media.

A Conversation With Leslie Odom Jr.

September 23, 2020 Culture, Current Events

Grammy and Tony-winning singer, Leslie Odom Jr. joins us to talk about his extraordinary career – and his philosophy that mistakes lead to breakthroughs.

The Accidental Racism In Dermatology

September 23, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Race/Identity

Dr. Jenna Lester is the founding director of the Skin of Color Program. She joins us to talk about the gap between skin cancer statistics — survival rates of melanoma are only 65 percent for Black people versus 91 percent for whites — and what needs to happen within the medical community to improve.

A Mathematician’s Formula For Gender Equality

September 22, 2020 Culture, Race/Identity, Science and Technology

Eugenia Cheng is Scientist in Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a math professor at the University of Sheffield, and she joins us to talk about taking mathematical concepts and applying them to an issue we’ve wrestled with throughout human history.

RBG: The Great Dissenter

September 21, 2020 Culture, Current Events, History, Politics

Linda Hirshman joins host Krys Boyd to talk about Ginsburg’s legacy – and about what an opening on the court could mean for the presidential election.