Tom Junod joins us to talk about an interview that turned into an unlikely, lifelong friendship with a quiet man who possessed a special power to deeply empathize with children and adults alike.
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You Made It Out Of Childhood Thanks To Public Health
Perri Klass, professor of journalism and pediatrics at New York University, joins us to talk about the hard-fought battle against infant and child mortality.
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Talking Back To A Culture That Doesn’t Value Gay Black Men
Former Buzzfeed LGBT culture editor Saeed Jones joins us to discuss his coming-of-age growing up black and queer in a Texas town.
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Courting The Latino Vote
Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz joins us to discuss the issues most important to the people some say will determine the 2020 election.
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How To Find Your Purpose In Life
Philosopher Frank Martela joins us to talk about identifying the essential qualities of happiness.
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One Attorney’s Crusade Against Racism In The Law
Brittany K. Barnett is an attorney who helped win executive clemency from President Obama for seven of her clients and an entrepreneur focused on social impact investing. She joins us to talk about being the daughter of an incarcerated mother, her pro bono legal work, and her resolve to challenge the status quo.
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America Has A Caste System, Too
Isabel Wilkerson is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a National Humanities Medal and a National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and she joins us to talk about the categories Americans are born into that rank us and grade us through no action of our own.
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A 40-Year Look at Racism In North Texas
Bob Ray Sanders, a former reporter and editor with both the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and KERA, joins us to talk about the documentary “At the Crossroads … Again,” which looks back at four decades of North Texas race relations and how these stories are covered in the media.
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The Accidental Racism In Dermatology
Dr. Jenna Lester is the founding director of the Skin of Color Program. She joins us to talk about the gap between skin cancer statistics — survival rates of melanoma are only 65 percent for Black people versus 91 percent for whites — and what needs to happen within the medical community to improve.
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A Mathematician’s Formula For Gender Equality
Eugenia Cheng is Scientist in Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a math professor at the University of Sheffield, and she joins us to talk about taking mathematical concepts and applying them to an issue we’ve wrestled with throughout human history.
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The Evolution Of What It Means To Be ‘Latino’
Laura E. Gómez, co-founder and faculty director of the Critical Race Studies Program at UCLA, joins us to talk about the dynamic Latino experience and the growing influence Latinos have on American life and politics.
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White Parents Need To Talk To Their Kids About Race – Here’s How
Fordham University psychology professor Tiffany Yip joins us to talk about what an anti-racist conversation with children should sound like and why it’s not happening as often as it should.
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