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.
Read more
UCLA sociologist Marcus Anthony Hunter joins us to talk about what black communities nationwide have in common – and about the many functions they serve.
Read more
Morgan Jerkins joins us to talk about what it is to be a black feminist in America today.
Read more
Bryce Covert joins us to talk about if #metoo could make things better for women working as waitresses, bartenders and hosts.
Read more
Economist Saadia Zahidi joins us to talk about how Muslim working women are reshaping cultural norms.
Read more
Martin de Bourmont of Foreign Policy magazine joins us to talk about what could be the first case prosecuting what the FBI calls a “black identity extremist.”
Read more
Stanley Nelson joins us to talk about the important ways that Historically Black Colleges and Universities have contributed to American life.
Read more
UCLA professor Laura E. Gómez joins us to talk about the role Mexican Americans have played in U.S. racial history.
Read more
Susan Stryker joins us to walk through the last half-century of progress made by transgender Americans.
Read more
Paul Ortiz joins us to talk about the achievements of LatinX and African Americans throughout history – and about efforts to keep them apart in order to hinder their progress.
Read more
Annette Gordon-Reed joins us to talk about how America has struggled since its founding to deal with slavery.
Read more
Darcy Eveleigh and Rachel Swarns talk about images of 20th century black life recently discovered in the Times’ archives.
Read more