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.
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America Has A Caste System, Too
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.
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What Our Secrets Say About Ourselves
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.
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A 40-Year Look at Racism In North Texas
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.
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A Conversation With Leslie Odom Jr.
Grammy and Tony-winning singer, Leslie Odom Jr. joins us to talk about his extraordinary career – and his philosophy that mistakes lead to breakthroughs.
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The Accidental Racism In Dermatology
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.
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A Mathematician’s Formula For Gender Equality
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.
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RBG: The Great Dissenter
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.
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The Evolution Of What It Means To Be ‘Latino’
Laura E. Gómez, co-founder and faculty director of the Critical Race Studies Program at UCLA, joins us to talk about the dynamic Latino experience and the growing influence Latinos have on American life and politics.
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White Parents Need To Talk To Their Kids About Race – Here’s How
Fordham University psychology professor Tiffany Yip joins us to talk about what an anti-racist conversation with children should sound like and why it’s not happening as often as it should.
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People With Dementia Are Still There
Lynn Casteel Harper is a chaplain and minister for older adults at The Riverside Church in New York City, and she joins us to talk about honoring the human when caring for someone with cognitive disease.
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The Invention Of Money
Jacob Goldstein, co-host of NPR’s “Planet Money,” joins us to talk about how our world goes ‘round in large part because we’ve all swallowed hard and agreed to not ask too much about the real value of currency.
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