Author and educator Liza Wiemer joins us to talk about her YA novel featuring students who must use Nazi propaganda in a debate, the courage it takes for two teenagers to confront anti-Semitism, and the real-life examples the author drew from.
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Peter T. Coleman is a professor of psychology and education at Columbia University, and he joins us to talk about applying methods of conflict resolution to work through our differences.
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Adam Harris, a staff writer at The Atlantic, joins us to discuss why Black students have always been an afterthought in higher education, the legacy that has created and the road toward reckoning with this discrimination.
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Dr. Susan R. Barry, professor emeritus of biology and neuroscience at Mount Holyoke College, joins us to discuss three case histories, including her own, of people gaining a new way of seeing or hearing at an older age.
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Christopher Cox, a visiting scholar at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, joins us to talk about why deadlines have a way of motivating us to finish tasks.
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Author Crystal Maldonado joins us to discuss her YA novel about a young woman dealing with the typical subjects of boys and friends, but also a deepening understanding of how she’s viewed by the outside world.
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Novelist Stacey Swann joins us to talk about interweaving down-to-earth characters, but with the characteristics of the legendary Greek gods.
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Sabreet Kang Rajeev joins us to talk about understanding her parents’ journey, their hopes for their new life, and connecting those to her own story as a first-generation American.
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Ashley C. Ford joins us to discuss her story of poverty, assault, and the secrets that upended her family.
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Gabrielle Bluestone joins us to talk about how Fyre is one of many examples of the way social media influencers build stories too good to be true, and why falling for those beautiful lies is part of the current Internet experience.
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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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Michelle Zauner joins us to talk about her caring for her dying mother and how she fought to maintain a link to her Korean heritage after her mother was gone.
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