Tara Roberts of National Geographic discusses why she quit her job to join a group of Black underwater divers searching for trans-Atlantic slave ship history.
Read moreWhat it’s really like to be incarcerated
Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods are co-hosts of the podcast “Ear Hustle,” and they join us to talk about what they’ve learned about life on the inside from the inmates who shared their stories.
Read moreThe many ironies of the 1990s
Author Chuck Klosterman talks about his examination of a decade or so defined by burgeoning tech and 9/11, plus Seinfeld and Oprah.
Read moreIs it time to move on from the Beatles and Stones?
Music historian Ted Gioia talks about why 70 percent of music demand today is for old songs, with publishing companies investing in vintage catalogs while ignoring new, emerging talent.
Read moreLadies who lift: Women, exercise and power
Danielle Friedman talks about how getting in shape morphed from simply being a beauty tool to a force for physical and emotional well-being, and what that says about feminism.
Read moreFor historians, the past Is written in pencil
James M. Banner, Jr. is founder of the National History Center of the American Historical Association, and he joins us to talk about why history is never really set in stone.
Read morePharaohs wrote the playbook for today’s dictators
UCLA Egyptologist Kara Cooney discusses her research into the Egyptian pharaohs and why their system of rule and religious beliefs can help us to understand why the many still so often give power to the few.
Read moreBeyond Biology: Rethinking What Makes A Family
Susan Golombok, director of the Centre for Family Research at the University of Cambridge and a professional fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge, joins us to talk about the outdated ideas we have about creating a happy home and the variety of parents out there who are thriving.
Read moreThey served the U.S. – and are now being deported
Filmmaker John Valadez joins us to tell the story of Vietnam veterans who were served with deportation papers for misdemeanor offenses.
Read moreBlack history is not just for Black people
Leonard Moore has taught Black history for more than 25 years, and he joins us to talk about asking students to consider uncomfortable questions about racism to move beyond words toward paths of reckoning and reconciliation.
Read moreWhen birth mothers were shamed into adoption
Gabrielle Glaser joins us to tell the story of how a system of closed adoptions across the nation operated on shifty moral ground and separated mother from child in the name of a wholesome environment.
Read moreCan someone else own your DNA?
Law professor Jorge L. Contreras joins us to discuss a landmark case brought when the U.S. government issued patents to biotech companies to use human genes, and the field of human genetics law it created.
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