Author Bryan Burrough joins us to talk about arguably the state’s most famous story – The Alamo – and why its role in preserving slavery is often written out of Texas lore.
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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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Judith Heumann On Her 50-Year Fight For Disability Rights
Judith Heumann joins us to discuss her life’s work, the lawsuits and sit-ins that changed history for people with disabilities, and what it means to rebel against entrenched norms and win.
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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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Do Black Americans Have 2nd Amendment Rights?
Emory University professor Carol Anderson joins us to discuss gun ownership in America and how expanding that right often leaves out Black citizens.
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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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The Amazing Story Of Juneteenth
Harvard historian Annette Gordon-Reed grew up in Texas, and she joins us to discuss the history of Texas exceptionalism, an economic model based on slavery and race, and the legacy that remains today.
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Why Humans Drink
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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