Author Reniqua Allen talks with Krys Boyd about how black millenials are re-imagining what the American Dream means to them which she writes about in “It Was All a Dream: A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America.”
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How Middle School Grades Boys
Ellen McCarthy joins host Krys Boyd to talk about how middle school affects boys, which she writes about for the Washington Post.
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Losing My Religion
Jessica Wilbanks talks about how her decision to leave her childhood church alienated her from her fundamentalist parents – and about the difficult process of charting her own spiritual path, which she writes about in “When I Spoke in Tongues: A Story of Faith and its Loss.”
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A Playwright Remembers His Border Childhood
Playwright Octavio Solis joins us to tell stories of his younger days along the Rio Grande – and how they influenced his life and work.
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When Slavery Uproots Your Family Tree
Kenyatta D. Berry, host of “Genealogy Roadshow” on PBS, joins us to talk about using online archives to build a story of your family – and about how collecting this data is still challenging for descendants of slaves.
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How We’ve Used Anne Frank
Dara Horn joins us to talk about the most well-known victim of the Holocaust and what she might have become.
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The Surprising Future Of American Jews
Harvard Law professor Robert H. Mnookin joins us to talk about how intermarriage, decreased religious observance and varying views on Israel are threatening American Jewish identity.
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How White Gatekeepers Restrain Black Thinkers
Mychal Denzel Smith joins us to talk about how black writers from James Baldwin to Ta-Nehisi Coates consider the race of their readers – and the relationship they have with their publishers.
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Trading A C-Suite For A Cop’s Beat
Sarah Cortez joins us to talk about her reflections on what it means to protect and serve.
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Growing Up Queer: What Kids Need To Know
Kids questioning their sexual identity have more resources than ever. Still, the road to clarity can be arduous.
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Who Says You Can’t Have More Than One Religion?
Duane R. Bidwell of the Claremont School of Theology joins us to talk about people who find it limiting to practice just one faith.
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Haunted By Mental Illness
Lindsay Wong joins us to talk about how the stigma surrounding mental illness affected her loved ones.
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