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Your Ancestors Were Not Helicopter Parents

March 12, 2021 Culture, Current Events, Environment, History, Race/Identity, Science and Technology, Upcoming

Michaeleen Doucleff, correspondent for NPR’s Science Desk, joins us to discuss her journeys with her daughter, from the Arctic to the Yucatan, to understand parenting best practices around the world and why American parents may be getting it all wrong.

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Sports Fandom Is Good For Your Health

March 11, 2021 Culture, Race/Identity, Sports, Upcoming

Larry Olmsted joins us to talk about the health benefits of rooting for your favorite team brings and why it might even make you smarter.

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The Black Roots Of Beer Culture

March 11, 2021 Culture, Current Events, Economics, Race/Identity, Upcoming

James Bennett II joins us to talk about why beer is often conflated today with a rich, white world and why something as simple as the backyard BBQ is essential to understanding how America chooses to drink.

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What It Means To Be Asexual

March 10, 2021 Culture, Current Events, Race/Identity, Upcoming

Journalist and writer Angela Chen joins us to discuss her book – part-reporting, part-memoir – on the spectrum of human sexuality and the categories that often go ignored.

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Making Sense Of The World As A Black Queer Kid

March 10, 2021 Culture, Current Events, Race/Identity, Upcoming

Hari Ziyad, the editor-in-chief of the website RaceBaitr and a 2021 Lambda Literary Fellow, joins us to discuss their personal history of a queer and Black childhood, and about breaking down structures of institutionalized racism and violence.

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A Case For Rebuilding The Voting Rights Act

March 9, 2021 Culture, Current Events, History, Politics, Race/Identity, Upcoming

Vann R. Newkirk II, senior editor at The Atlantic and the host of the podcast Floodlines, joins us to talk about how the bill was originally perceived and passed, and what might happen if it again lands at the Supreme Court’s door.

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Meet The 11-Year-Old Black Girl Who Struck Oil

March 9, 2021 Culture, History, Race/Identity, Upcoming

Lauren N. Henley is an assistant professor of leadership studies in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond, and she joins us to tell the story of a girl who went from farm laborer to millionaire overnight in the Jim Crow South.

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Why People Break Up With Their Parents

March 8, 2021 Culture, Race/Identity

Joshua Coleman is a psychologist and senior fellow at the Council on Contemporary Families, and he joins us to talk about why parent-child bonds are easily severed in a modern family setting.

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Widening Inequality, One Home Sale At A Time

March 5, 2021 Culture, Economics, History, Race/Identity

Max Besbris, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, joins us to talk about his research into how “hot” neighborhoods are formed, the agents who market them, and how the system pushes up prices for all homebuyers, creating housing inequities along the way.

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When Kids Carry Their Identities In Their Lunchboxes

March 3, 2021 Culture, Education, Race/Identity

Jaya Saxena is a staff writer at Eater, and she joins us to talk about what it’s like to feel like an outsider simply because of what your well-meaning parents packed you for lunch.

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A Mom, A Daughter And The Ocean In-Between

March 1, 2021 Culture, Language, Literature, Race/Identity

Author Elizabeth Miki Brina joins host us to talk about her efforts to reframe her life’s experiences through her mother’s eyes, and her attempts to understand the pain and loneliness of what it was like for her to leave her homeland behind.

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Ida B. Wells Is As Relevant As Ever

February 24, 2021 Culture, History, Literature, Race/Identity

Michelle Duster is a great-granddaughter of Wells, and she joins us to talk about the Civil Rights icon’s strategies for giving a voice to the voiceless and how they might be used in present-day America.

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