Bess Williamson, associate professor of art history, theory and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, joins us to discuss how design has evolved as it attempts to accommodate all users, which she writes about in “Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design.”
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Cal State San Marcos sociologist Mary Robertson joins us to talk about how young people are exploring their sexual and gender identities, which she writes about in “Growing Up Queer: Kids and the Remaking of LGBTQ Identity.”
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Reporter Anne Helen Petersen joins us to talk her essay in Buzzfeed News, “How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation.”
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sarah Cortez joins us to talk about her reflections on what it means to protect and serve.
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