Writer and diversity consultant Mikki Kendall joins us to explain how the feminist movement continues to marginalize women of color.
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Refusing to Be Defined by Disability
Journalist Keah Brown joins us to talk about how she moved beyond self-pity to become an advocate for people with disabilities.
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An LGBTQ Activist and his Mormon Mom Find Common Ground
Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black joins us to talk about his formative years in a Mormon household near San Antonio – and how he left that life behind to become an LGBTQ activist and sought-after screenwriter.
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How COVID-19 Preys On The Marginalized
Ruqaiijah Yearby joins us to discuss how unemployment, lack of affordable housing and other factors lead to health inequities.
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Looking For Love In The Indian Diaspora
Parul Bhandari is associate professor at the Jindal Global Business School in Delhi, India, and she joins us to talk about how the show, “Indian Matchmaking,” is teaching the world about Indian cultural practices
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Is Hermione Granger Black?
University of Pennsylvania associate professor Ebony Elizabeth Thomas joins us to talk about how the lack of diversity in children’s books reflects a lack of imagination.
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The Making And Breaking Of The Middle Class
David Stebenne teaches political, legal and constitutional history at The Ohio State University. He joins us to talk about the social movements and government policies that defined the mid-20th century.
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Can The Black Experience Ever Be Detached From Slavery?
Frank B. Wilderson III, professor and chair of African American studies at the University of California, Irvine, joins us to talk about a theory of Black experience that can never be detached from slavery.
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Why Children Need Love To Love Others
Melissa Fay Greene, Kirk Distinguished Writer in Residence at Agnes Scott College, joins us to talk about severe attachment disorders and the science behind reaching the children of serious trauma.
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An Argument For Reparations
Duke University public policy professor William A. Darity Jr. joins us to make the case for monetary compensation for Black Americans.
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The Psychology Of Victimhood
Humanistic psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman talks to us about the relationship between victimhood and our sense of how much control we have of our lives.
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James Baldwin Still Has Something To Say
Princeton professor Eddie Glaude, Jr. joins us to talk about looking at today’s racism through the eyes of one of the great thinkers of the 20th Century.
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