Rahawa Haile joins us to talk about how books by black authors helped her hike the Appalachian Trail.
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Democracy In Black
Princeton professor Eddie S. Glaude Jr. joins us to talk about why a total remaking of our democracy is the only path to equality.
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The Self-Segregation Of White America
Vox reporter Alvin Chang joins us to talk about why white Americans who say they want to live in diverse neighborhoods still end up living in traditionally white areas.
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The New Civil Rights Movement
New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb joins us to talk about how Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street and other groups are following Martin Luther King Jr’s model of civil disobedience.
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Rethinking Gender Identity
Robin Marantz Henig joins us to talk about how scientists are adopting a more fluid understanding of gender and rethinking identity in the process.
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The Burden Of Debt At HBCUs
Katherine M. Saunders joins us to talk about how students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities are burdened with higher loan debt than students at other schools.
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What Our DNA Says About Us
Alondra Nelson,the dean of social science at Columbia University, joins us to talk about the relationship between contemporary racial issues and DNA.
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Are Racists Crazy?
Sander L. Gilman, a psychiatry professor at Emory University, joins us to talk about classifying racism as a mental illness. He writes about the idea in “Are Racists Crazy: How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity.”
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The Use And Abuse Of Stop And Frisk
This hour, we’ll talk about the history of the stop and frisk – and about if it’s even possible to hunt for criminals without racial profiling. We’ll be joined by Arizona State criminology professor Michael D. White, co-author of “Stop and Frisk: The Use and Abuse of a Controversial Policing Tactic.”
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Racism On Campus
In the last week, incidence of racism and harassment have taken place on Texas high school and college campuses. This hour, we’ll talk about counseling young adults on how to deal with these situations – and what to when these lessons are being learned at home.
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The Latinos Of Asia
This hour, we’ll talk about how skin color, history and other factors contribute to cultural identity with sociologist Anthony Christian Ocampo, author of “The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race.”
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A History Of Arab American Lives
This hour, we’ll talk about how Americans of Arab descent have viewed historic U.S. events – and about their relationship with their fellow non-Arab Americans – with Alia Malek, author of “A Country Called Amreeka: U.S. History Re-Told Through Arab American Lives.”
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