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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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.
Read moreKatherine Kinzler, professor of psychology at the University of Chicago, joins us to talk about the biased ways we view dialects and accents.
Read moreJustin 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.
Read moreJosie 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.”
Read moreChristopher 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.
Read moreFilmmakers 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.
Read moreWashington 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.
Read moreJournalist Lisa Selin Davis joins us to talk about how tomboys have pushed our ideas about gender conformity.
Read moreFarah 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.
Read moreNiambi Carter, associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Political Science at Howard University, joins us to reflect on the Democratic and Republican National Conventions – and talk about what Howard alum Kamala Harris brings to the Joe Biden ticket.
Read moreSunnie R. Clahchischiligi is a writing instructor at the University of New Mexico and a member of the Navajo Nation, and she joins us to talk about the fallout of stay-at-home orders on remote areas of Navajo lands.
Read morePeter N. Stearns, University Professor of History at George Mason University, joins us to talk about using shame as an emotional disciplining tool.
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