Karoline Kan joins us to talk about how her experiences growing up in China differed from older family members – including her mother who defied the country’s One-Child Policy when she gave birth to Karoline. Her new memoir is called “Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China.”
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As the political landscape heats up for 2020, Maria Teresa Kumar, president and CEO of Voto Latino joins us to talk about the issues that drive Latinx voters to the polls.
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UC-Berkeley history professor Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers joins us to talk about how wealth drove white women’s participation in the slave market.
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Texas Tribune reporter Jay Root joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the physical and financial risks of asylum seekers putting their family’s life in the hands of smugglers.
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Daily Beast reporter Samantha Allen joins us to talk about her cross-country trip meeting queer people thriving in conservative strongholds, which she writes about in “Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States.”
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Derek Thompson joins us to talk about how work often fills the voids left by relationships, religion and other forms of human connection – and about the dangers of allowing work to be all things. His story “Workism Is Making Americans Miserable” appears in The Atlantic.
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Dr. Sunita Puri joins us to talk about palliative care – and about what she learned from her anesthesiologist mother about finding balance. Her new book is called “That Good Night: Life & Medicine in the Eleventh Hour.”
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Reyna Grande joins us to talk about her journey from undocumented immigrant to celebrated writer.
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Nigerian-American writer Nnedi Okorafor joins us to talk about writing black characters into popular culture – including her recent work on the Marvel “Black Panther” franchise.
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University of Georgia assistant professor of sociology and African American studies Maryann Erigha joins us to discuss how decisions made behind the scenes affect what audiences see on the screen.
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Jodie Patterson joins us to talk about what it took for her family to evolve to understand her transgender son’s place in it, which she writes about in “The Bold World: A Memoir of Family and Transformation.”
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Joe William Trotter, Jr., director of the Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy at Carnegie Mellon University, joins us to trace the history of black employment, which he writes about in “Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America.”
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