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The Black Roots Of Beer Culture

July 14, 2021 Culture, Current Events, Economics, Race/Identity

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.

When Kids Carry Their Identities In Their Lunchboxes

July 13, 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.

How A Girl Becomes A Woman

July 13, 2021 Culture, Education, Health, History, Mental Health, Race/Identity

Melissa Febos joins us to talk about the flawed ways we ask children to shape their identities from puberty and her own coming-of-age story as she worked to find her voice and set boundaries.

What Your Voice Says About You

July 12, 2021 Health, Language, Race/Identity, Science and Technology

New Yorker staff writer John Colapinto joins us to talk about the experience of losing his voice and how it led him to look into how the sounds we create are so integral to our identity.

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When Mom Left, Thank God For Grandma

July 8, 2021 Culture, Mental Health, Race/Identity

Danielle Henderson, TV writer and cohost of the film podcast “I Saw What You Did,” joins us to discuss her experience being raised by her grandmother after her mother abandoned her – and about how her love of horror movies taught her to have faith in herself.

A protester carries a Proud Boys banner, a right-wing group, while other members start to unfurl a large U.S. flag in front of the Oregon State Capitol in Salem, Ore.

Where The Proud Boys Go From Here

July 6, 2021 Politics, Race/Identity

Rolling Stone staff writer EJ Dickson joins us to discuss the far-right organization’s influence, growth, and future plans to run for local government offices.

New To America? Here’s Where To Start

July 5, 2021 Culture, Education, History, Politics, Race/Identity

Roya Hakakian joins us to talk about her instruction manual for newcomers to this country, acting as tour operator for all the wonder of American sights and sounds.

McDonald’s and Black America

July 5, 2021 Culture, Race/Identity

Marcia Chatelain, an associate professor of history and African American studies at Georgetown, joins us to talk about the relationship between McDonalds and black business owners.

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The Boy Who Survived A Men’s Prison

July 2, 2021 Education, Health, Mental Health, Race/Identity

Ian Manuel joins us to discuss his crime, his quest for forgiveness, and why, he believes, we should not judge an entire life based on one’s worst day.

Your Personality Isn’t Set In Stone

July 1, 2021 Culture, Health, Mental Health, Race/Identity

Christian Jarrett, a cognitive neuroscientist and deputy editor of Psyche, joins us to talk about the five types of personalities and how we can become a better version of our current selves.

A file photo shows New York City Police facing off with activists during a protest march in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of the Brooklyn borough of New York.

How More Policing Leads To Greater Unrest

June 30, 2021 Current Events, History, Politics, Race/Identity

Elizabeth Hinton joins us to discuss why the word “riot” is a racist trope and masks a long arm of history of over policing and neighborhood crackdowns.

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Yes, Immigration Courts Are Political

June 29, 2021 Current Events, History, Politics, Race/Identity

Alison Peck, a law professor at the University of West Virginia, joins us to talk about how we might remove politics from the immigration court system so that they can better serve both Americans and people looking to live here.