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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Black history is not just for Black people
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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From Drug Dealer To Harvard Debate Coach
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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Foster care could be much better
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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Where do Asian-Americans ‘fit’?
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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When birth mothers were shamed into adoption
Gabrielle Glaser joins us to tell the story of how a system of closed adoptions across the nation operated on shifty moral ground and separated mother from child in the name of a wholesome environment.
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Can someone else own your DNA?
Law professor Jorge L. Contreras joins us to discuss a landmark case brought when the U.S. government issued patents to biotech companies to use human genes, and the field of human genetics law it created.
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A Black scholar’s contrarian take on antiracism
Columbia University’s John McWhorter joins us to make the case that people of color are sometimes harmed by well-meaning antiracists who sometimes lose sight of the thing they are fighting against.
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What qualifies you to be life coach?
Journalist Rachel Monroe joins us to talk about the for-profit Life Coach School, the students who chose that path, and the pitfalls they encountered upon entering the largely unregulated profession.
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His mom left the Phillippines for his sake–was it worth it?
Albert Samaha of BuzzFeed News joins us to tell the story of his family who left a middle-class life in the Philippines only to question whether leaving was the right decision after all.
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Plants have much to teach us
Beronda L. Montgomery joins us to discuss what plants “know,” how they overcome obstacles, and what we humans can learn from them.
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How a tuba saved a life
Richard Antoine White joins us to talk about how music gave his young life purpose and allowed him to dream big enough to become the first African American student to earn a doctorate in music for tuba performance.
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