Vincent E. Slatt and Jade Salazar join us to talk about how gay pride has evolved.
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When Black America Championed Mass Incarceration
Former public defender James Forman Jr. joins us to talk about how policies from the 1970s lead to an overrepresentation of people of color in American prisons.
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‘Why I Stopped Being A Skinhead’
Former neo-Nazi Christian Picciolini joins us to talk about how a moment of racial violence shook him out of his ways.
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Islamophobia Didn’t Begin With 9/11
Khaled A. Beydoun joins us to talk about how anti-Muslim ideas have been ingrained in our legal system since the days of slavery.
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The Invisible Victims Of Sexual Assault
Bernice Yeung joins us to talk about how women working jobs at the bottom of the economic spectrum are so blatantly taken advantage of by the men who employ them.
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The Power Of Pay: Working Women In The Muslim World
Economist Saadia Zahidi joins us to talk about how Muslim working women are reshaping cultural norms.
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When You’re The Only One
We talk with people who feel like they’re the only one – from a black woman hiker sharing the trails with predominately white men, to an overweight yogi, to a lefthander in a right-handed world.
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Texas’ Mass Mexican Deportation
TCU assistant professor Melita M. Garza joins us to talk about the push to preserve jobs for white Americans by deporting Mexicans – and in some cases, Mexican-Americans during the Great Depression – and how that coverage contributed to racial “othering” of Mexicans in Texas.
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The Landscape Of Black America
UCLA sociologist Marcus Anthony Hunter joins us to talk about what black communities nationwide have in common – and about the many functions they serve.
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A Black Feminist In White America
Morgan Jerkins joins us to talk about what it is to be a black feminist in America today.
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Sexual Harassment And The Service Industry
Bryce Covert joins us to talk about if #metoo could make things better for women working as waitresses, bartenders and hosts.
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The Power Of Pay: Working Women In The Muslim World
Economist Saadia Zahidi joins us to talk about how Muslim working women are reshaping cultural norms.
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