This hour, we’ll talk about how feminism has changed over the decades with Andi Zeisler. She writes about the topic in “We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement.”
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Educating Our Minority-Majority
This hour, as part of KERA’s American Graduate Series, we’ll talk about creating more inclusive classrooms – and about what our schools can tell us about the nation’s future.
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Laughing All The Way To The Mosque
This hour we’ll talk with Pakistani-Canadian sitcom writer Zarqa Nawaz, who writes about life, Islam and the west in her book “Laughing All the Way to the Mosque: The Misadventures of a Muslim Woman.”
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A Wrongful Execution In Dallas
This hour, we’ll talk about how racial prejudice and the thirst for a conviction may have cost a man his life with Mary Mapes, whose investigation into the case appears in the current issue of D magazine.
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Gender Equality At Work
This hour, we’ll talk about how American women have fought for equal rights in the workforce with the author of “Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women’s Lives at Work.”
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A Marine’s Secret
This hour, we’ll talk with Greg Cope White about his experience as a closeted member of the armed forces, which he writes about in his memoir “The Pink Marine: One Boy’s Boot Camp Journey to Manhood.”
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Diversity And Hollywood
This hour, we’ll talk about Hollywood’s diversity problem – and how it affects filmmakers at all levels.
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Closing The Health Gap
This hour, we’ll talk about how we can make our healthcare system more equitable with the author of “Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care.”
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The Artist As Philosopher, Historian, and Agitator
This hour, we’ll talk to Teju Cole about how our national conversation about race has evolved in the age of social media – and about the artist’s role in that conversation.
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A Housewife Shows Her Hand
This hour, we’ll talk with writer Helen Ellis about the darkly comic side of domesticity – and about her night job as a high-stakes poker player.
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Patrolling The Border
This hour, we’ll talk about the conflict Mexican-American border agents have while doing their jobs with Alfredo Corchado, whose three-part series on the topic appears in “The New Yorker.”
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The Politics Of Breastfeeding
This hour, we’ll talk about the pros and cons of breastfeeding – and about why the issue is so divisive – with University of Toronto political science professor Courtney Jung.
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