Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than four decades, and she joins us to talk about how the myth of equality obscures the more complex, hard truths that the nation has yet to address.
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There’s No Such Thing As Foreign Food
G. Daniela Galarza is a staff writer for the Washington Post food section, and she joins us to discuss how food relates directly to culture, and why reframing one’s worldview helps move cuisine beyond old tropes and whitewashing.
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Being Nice Doesn’t Mean You’re Not Racist
Robin DiAngelo is an academic, lecturer, and author and has been a consultant and trainer on issues of racial and social justice for more than 20 years. She joins us to discuss how white progressives often downplay systemic racism.
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He Spent 14 Years In Guantánamo Without A Charge
Mansoor Adayfi was held at Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp for more than 14 years without charges, and he joins us to tell his personal story of being kidnapped at age 18 by warlords in Afghanistan and sold to the U.S. after 9/11.
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Latino Identity Contains Multitudes
Héctor Tobar, a professor of journalism and Chicano/Latino studies at the University of California, Irvine, joins us to discuss his 9,000-mile road trip across America to understand Latino communities and their widely-varying beliefs.
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Why Gay Bars Matter
KERA’s Miguel Perez joins us to discuss the significance of gay bars to LGBTQ life in North Texas. And later in the hour, Oberlin College sociologist Greggor Mattson talks about the closure of so many of these spaces during the pandemic has meant to the communities they serve.
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¡Hola Papi! Is Here To Help
John Paul Brammer is an author, illustrator and advice columnist of “¡Hola Papi!” on Substack. He joins us to discuss being gay, bi-racial, finding his footing with family and relationships, and all the wisdom he’s tried to impart to eager followers of his work.
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Segregation In Higher Ed Isn’t A Thing Of The Past
Adam Harris, a staff writer at The Atlantic, joins us to discuss why Black students have always been an afterthought in higher education, the legacy that has created and the road toward reckoning with this discrimination.
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She Survived A Civil War, Then Discovered The Trauma Of Racism
Author Wayétu Moore joins us to discuss her family’s escape from civil war in Liberia, the experience of being an immigrant in Texas, and her eventual return to Africa to better understand the experiences of her fellow migrants.
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The Inmates Sentenced To Die From Covid
Lisa Armstrong is a professor at the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and she joins us to talk specifically about incarcerated people over the age of 55 who could’ve been paroled early to reduce overcrowding but instead remained in prison.
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Was She An Abused Child?
Anna Qu teaches in the MFA program at New England College, and she joins us to tell her story of estrangement from her Chinese immigrant family after she turned them in to the Office of Children and Family Services for overworking her.
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When MTV Got Real
Amanda Ann Klein, associate professor of film studies at East Carolina University, joins us to discuss why MTV moved away from rock stars and shifted to ordinary people living wild lives.
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