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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Alfredo Corchado is a correspondent for The Dallas Morning News who covers the border, and he joins us to talk about the situation – and the realities of immigration and life along the border amid ever-shifting policies.
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Cammie McGovern joins us to discuss “the disability cliff” – when education ends and the hard realities of limited jobs and housing set in – and about her own experience raising a son who has autism.
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Filmmaker Michelle Ferrari joins us to discuss the life and career of Sandra Day O’Connor, a nominee of President Ronald Reagan who became a critical swing vote on historic issues of race, gender and reproductive rights.
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Filmmaker Michael Kirk joins us to discuss the decisions made since that day that have altered the course of American and world history, from the war in Afghanistan to the January 6th insurrection.
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Type Media Center reporting fellow Sarah Jaffe joins us to talk about how Covid lockdowns made it clear how much Americans rely on care workers – and how little we value them monetarily.
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Eric Garcia is an autistic journalist, and he joins us to talk about what autism is and isn’t, how it’s portrayed, and the support systems that are currently failing.
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Kat Chow is a founding member of the Code Switch podcast team from NPR, and she joins us to tell her story of grief, not only for herself, but for her extended family, spread out across the world.
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Columbia University journalism professor Jelani Cobb has written a new introduction for the Kerner Commission Report, and he joins us to discuss why the document is a landmark of American history and remains salient today.
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than four decades, and she joins us to talk about how the myth of equality obscures the more complex, hard truths that the nation has yet to address.
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G. Daniela Galarza is a staff writer for the Washington Post food section, and she joins us to discuss how food relates directly to culture, and why reframing one’s worldview helps move cuisine beyond old tropes and whitewashing.
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Robin DiAngelo is an academic, lecturer, and author and has been a consultant and trainer on issues of racial and social justice for more than 20 years. She joins us to discuss how white progressives often downplay systemic racism.
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