Susan Golombok, director of the Centre for Family Research at the University of Cambridge and a professional fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge, joins us to talk about the outdated ideas we have about creating a happy home and the variety of parents out there who are thriving.
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Omar Mouallem discusses his travels to 13 mosques across the Americas trying to understand what it means to different people to be Muslim.
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Bobby Duffy joins us to discuss why labels put on generations aren’t as fixed as we’re taught to believe.
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The writer and producer of the “How to Be a Girl” podcast talks about raising a transgender child, and how she’s grown in her approaches to gender and sexuality.
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Stephen G. Bloom joins us to discuss an exercise that separated children by eye color to mimic racism and why we might now question the results
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Bethonie Butler covers television and pop culture for The Washington Post, and she joins us to discuss the stereotypes these shows often play into, and if progress is being made on television.
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Nick Martin joins us to talk about the process of consultation, which was designed as a negotiation tool but is more often used to notify Indigenous communities about pipelines, mines and other major projects adjacent to sacred lands – after it’s too late for them to meaningfully voice their concerns.
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NBC News national investigative reporter Mike Hixenbaugh joins us to talk about how conversations about race are playing out in the North Texas suburb of Southlake.
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Leonard Moore has taught Black history for more than 25 years, and he joins us to talk about asking students to consider uncomfortable questions about racism to move beyond words toward paths of reckoning and reconciliation.
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Brandon P. Fleming joins us to discuss his childhood surrounded by poverty and crime, his dreams shattered by injury, and his ultimate redemption, which he found in teaching himself and others to be express themselves.
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The chief executive officer of Think of Us, a nonprofit focused on foster care, joins us to talk about the practice of kinship placement and the need for systemic change so that children aren’t kept from loving homes.
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Jay Caspian Kang joins us to talk about the evolution of what it means to be Asian-American – and about his own family’s story as they moved across the country to find their footings.
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