Bettye Kearse joins us to talk about tracing her own heredity, which lead her to an enslaved woman and a head of state.
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Bettye Kearse joins us to talk about tracing her own heredity, which lead her to an enslaved woman and a head of state.
Read morePeniel E. Joseph, founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin, joins us to talk about the relationship between the most recognized leaders of the Civil Rights era.
Read moreLulu Miller, co-founder of NPR’s “Invisibilia,” joins us to talk about her study of the first president of Stanford University, a taxonomist obsessed with fish, and how his discoveries — and ultimately his intellectual myopia — helped her to make sense of her own world.
Read moreOlga Khazan, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins us to talk about how her outsider status growing up shaped her – and about what research says about the advantages of being different.
Read moreCecilia Muñoz joins us to talk about how to gain confidence, leadership and the respect of the room when you’re in the minority.
Read moreDaniel A. Gross of The New Yorker joins us to talk about why we deny prisoners the right to vote and if we should restore that privilege.
Read moreJoe Pinsker, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins us to talk about one of the last American taboos: asking about what’s in someone’s bank account.
Read moreSarah Valentine joins us to talk about her path to rediscovering herself after discovering she is biracial.
Read moreNew York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof and author Sheryl WuDunn join us to talk about the burdens that 10 million working class Americans face every day and why the rest of society doesn’t seem to notice.
Read moreDavid Brooks, The New York Times columnist, joins us to talk about why depending on a small, concentrated support network is not only ahistorical but also reserved for the “financially fortunate.”
Read moreMusic journalist Kathy Iandoli joins us to talk about the contributions of Queen Latifah, Salt-N-Pepa and other woman artists – and why the contributions of women in rap are so often overlooked.
Read moreCynthia Anderson, journalist and teacher of writing at Boston University, joins us to talk about Lewiston, Maine — a city that has transformed itself through the arrival of African Muslim refugees.
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