Amirah Mercer is the founder of Other Suns, a wellness guide for Black women, and she joins us to talk about her switch to a vegan lifestyle, the isolation from community she initially felt, and her subsequent deep dive into the long history of plant-based diets in the Black diaspora.
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Mary-Frances Winters, president and CEO of diversity and inclusion consulting firm The Winters Group, joins us to discuss the exhaustion that comes with constantly fighting for a seat at the table, especially amid white fragility and empty promises for change.
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Boston University professor Jay Wexler joins us to talk about religious rights in the public sphere beyond Christianity, Judaism and Islam and how they fit into a country that increasingly disavows religion altogether.
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Maurice Chammah is a staff writer for The Marshall Project, and he joins us to talk about his in-depth look at capital punishment and how the execution of a person affects many lives.
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Jaipreet Virdi, assistant history professor at the University of Delaware, joins us to talk about her research into medicine’s long legacy of promised hearing cures and why science has yet to achieve a universal solution.
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Beth Blum, assistant professor of English at Harvard University, joins us to discuss how classic authors talked to audiences about themes of self-actualization, and how writers today still draw from that well of tips and tricks for better living.
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Alicia Puglionesi holds a Ph.D. in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology from Johns Hopkins University, and she joins host Krys Boyd to discuss a field of study that tried to make a science of the unexplained.
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Mychal Denzel Smith is a fellow at Type Media Center, and he joins us to talk about his thoughts on how he wrestles to understand the current moment studied against the long lens of American history.
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Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil joins us to talk about finding solace and inspiration from the beautiful and odd creatures that stand out – or blend in – to their surroundings and what we can learn from them.
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Presidential historian Jeffrey Engel joins host Krys Boyd to talk about this unprecedented chapter in American history – and about whether it will unify the country or tear it further apart.
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McKay Coppins, a staff writer for The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to talk about his own faith, the model of assimilation it tries to capture, and the changes it must wrestle with to fit into the modern era.
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Rob Henderson studies human behavior at the University of Cambridge, and he joins us to talk about the psychology of why people follow a crowd.
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