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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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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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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Jeff Hobbs joins us to talk about the Los Angeles boys he followed for 12 months to tell their stories of working toward their higher-education goals amid atmospheres of racism and privilege.
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Katherine Kinzler, professor of psychology at the University of Chicago, joins us to talk about the biased ways we view dialects and accents.
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Justin Gomer is an assistant professor of American studies at California State University, Long Beach, and he joins us to talk about the films of the 1970s and 80s and how the portrayal of race worked against gains of the Civil Rights movement.
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Josie Duffy Rice is president of The Appeal, a news publication that covers the criminal justice system. She joins us to talk about why the idea of policing as we know it must be upended because it views “Black safety” as fundamentally separate from “white safety.”
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Christopher Ryan joins us to talk about how our ancestors might not have enjoyed some of the perks of the 21st Century, but they also didn’t have some of the worries that we do today.
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Filmmakers Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine join us to talk about a national program for high school students to learn the nuts and bolts of U.S. government by creating it themselves, which they capture in their documentary.
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Washington Post’s national political reporter and Washington Week moderator Robert Costa joins us to talk about the Biden and Trump campaign strategies to woo voters ahead of Election Day.
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Journalist Lisa Selin Davis joins us to talk about how tomboys have pushed our ideas about gender conformity.
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Farah Peterson, law professor and legal historian at the University of Chicago Law School, joins us to set the record straight on the Black experience dating back to the time of the nation’s founding.
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