Supporters of the SHSAT Make Their Presence Known at Queens Forum
A Queens forum billed as a discussion about diversity in city schools ultimately focused on one topic: the Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT). And people in attendance at Queens Borough...
View ArticleAs Brown v. Board Turns 65 Years Old, Students Say "Retire Segregation"
The landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka turns 65 Friday. In New York City, some student activists are celebrating with what they're calling a "retirement party" for...
View ArticleBuilding An Inclusive Innovation Economy
In recent years, some American cities, like Pittsburgh, have been transformed by legions of tech jobs. But even as these one-time industrial cities reinvented themselves, many residents - including...
View Article[Unedited] Shane Claiborne and Omar Saif Ghobash with Krista Tippett
Spiritual border-crossing and social creativity were themes in a conversation between Shane Claiborne and Omar Saif Ghobash, two people who have lived with some discomfort within the religious groups...
View ArticleMonday Morning Politics; Homelessness on the Subways; Candidate-By-Candidate:...
Coming up on today's show:Elaina Plott, White House correspondent for The Atlantic, discusses the latest political headlines.According to an official headcount, the number of homeless people sleeping...
View ArticleAsian American Comedians Defying Stereotypes
Thessaly La Force, the features director of T: The New York Times Style Magazine, joins us to discuss her recent piece, "The Comedians Challenging Stereotypes About Asian-American Masculinity." She is...
View Article5. Robin DiAngelo Wants to Be a Little Less White
Author and educator Robin DiAngelo wants white people to ask themselves “What does it mean to be white?” Her bestselling book White Fragility lays out the many ways white people both reinforce and...
View Article6. Jeff Yang on the Hard Work of Allyship
Journalist Jeff Yang was stunned after experiencing a racist attack at the grocery store. Now, he’s finding himself asking some tough questions about what allyship looks like in the age of Covid-19. He...
View Article7. Walter Mosley Believes in Freedom of Speech. Period.
Does Freedom of Speech have limits in the workplace? Walter Mosley was working as a writer on a TV show. One day, in the writers' room, he shared with his colleagues the story of his disturbing...
View Article8. Elie Mystal: Call It a Lynching
On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery was jogging in his suburban neighborhood when two white men, a father and son, decided Arbery might be the culprit of a suspected robbery. They got in their truck,...
View Article9. Bassey Ikpi Didn’t Enter the World Broken
Author Bassey Ikpi always struggled with a certain kind of heaviness and worry growing up. In 2004, she was able to put a name to those feelings when she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. She joins...
View Article10. Don Lemon is a Soldier for The Army of Truth
Over the past several years, we’ve watched Don Lemon go from a semi-conservative broadcast journalist to an emotionally expressive, openly opinionated public figure. The CNN anchor has even drawn the...
View ArticleThe Toll of Covering Police Brutality as a Black Journalist
Last Friday, CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez was arrested live on air by Minnesota State Police in Minneapolis. Jimenez, who is black, and his crew were taken into police custody and released that same...
View Article11. Gabrielle Union is Raising Black Daughters and Learning As She Goes
Gabrielle Union is a force. But before she became an actress, activist, and businesswoman, Gabrielle was a Black girl from Omaha trying to find Black community, belonging, and love in a largely white...
View Article12. Ava DuVernay Takes Us Online, Desmond Meade Leads Us to Vote
Ava DuVernay was a young teenager when she went to a U2 concert and encountered a flier for Amnesty International that changed her life. She tells host Rebecca Carroll, "it was just that little piece...
View Article13. Waubgeshig Rice Saw This Apocalypse Coming
Waubgeshig Rice is a Canadian journalist and bestselling author (Moon of the Crusted Snow) from the Wasauksing First Nation, who grew up in an Anishinaabe community. He hopes COVID will be a wake-up...
View Article14. Ira Madison III Keeps It, Kay Oyegun Gives It
As a struggling screenwriter, Twitter was exactly what Ira Madison III needed to get noticed. More than 200k followers later, he’s writing for Netflix (“Daybreak” and the upcoming “Q-Force”). He tells...
View Article15. Julián Castro's Common Census
Julián Castro served as the mayor of San Antonio, Texas before joining the Obama administration as housing secretary. And he was briefly in the race for president, the only Latinx candidate in the 2020...
View ArticleA Photography Community for Black Women
Polly Irungu, digital editor at The Takeaway, joins us to discuss founding Black Women Photographers, a community and database of Black women photographers across the country and globally.
View ArticleWhat Vogue's Latest Cover Tells Us About Diversity in Photography
Earlier this week, the magazine Vogue came under fire for the cover of its August issue, which features the celebrated gymnast Simone Biles photographed by Annie Leibovitz. Critics on social media and...
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