A Case For A Great Migration Back To The South

June 18, 2021 Culture, Education, History, Race/Identity

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.

Judith Heumann, special advisor for International Disability Rights at the U.S. Department of State, sits at a table and speaks at the opening session of the China-U.S. Coordination Meeting on Disability in Beijing.

Judith Heumann On Her 50-Year Fight For Disability Rights

June 17, 2021 Current Events, History

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.

Rain clouds form behind Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, once a working plantation site.

Landmarks Of Slavery Abound … If You Know Where To Look

June 15, 2021 Culture, History, Race/Identity

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.

A man looks at a Black Wall Street mural in the historic Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

We Know About Tulsa — But What Happened To Other Black Wall Streets?

June 15, 2021 Culture, History, Race/Identity

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.

An illustration of an ancient temple submerged on the ocean floor

A Look At Four Lost Cities … And Why They Disappeared

June 14, 2021 Culture, History

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.

Should The Government Compensate Victims of Homophobic Policies?

June 14, 2021 Culture, Economics, History, Race/Identity

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.

Tasha Cobbs Leonard performs onstage singing into a microphone

How Black Artists Push Past Gatekeepers

June 11, 2021 Culture, History, Literature, Race/Identity

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.

Do Black Americans Have 2nd Amendment Rights?

June 10, 2021 Current Events, History, Race/Identity

Emory University professor Carol Anderson joins us to discuss gun ownership in America and how expanding that right often leaves out Black citizens.

American Racism, As Viewed From Abroad

June 8, 2021 Culture, Global Issues, History, Politics, Race/Identity

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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