Affirmative Action is About More Than Acceptance Letters
Everyone’s talking about affirmative action at elite universities. But they educate fewer than 5 percent of students seeking advanced degrees. So why should the other 95 percent care? Kai wants to kn...
13 Jul 202328min
What Does “Color-Blind” Really Mean?
Affirmative action is gone. Ibram X. Kendi tells us the history leading up to this moment and what could be next. Historian and best-selling author Ibram X. Kendi helps Kai understand the Supreme Cou...
10 Jul 202323min
Black Life Resuscitated from the Ocean Floor
National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts’s mission: To recover her ancestry as a Black American. Her destination: The bottom of the Atlantic. Tara Roberts walked through the National Museum of Africa...
6 Jul 202318min
Why It’s So Hard to Sound “American”
A culture war from our past: Before he could define America’s sound for the next century, Aaron Copland had to overcome conflict over what “America” meant. There’s one line of questioning our listene...
3 Jul 202333min
The Coolest Music Parties You Didn’t Know Were Happening
Arab Americans around the country are celebrating their diaspora. And it starts with two guys in a band blasting music at underground parties in Washington, D.C. Philippe Manasseh and Nadim Maghzal we...
29 Jun 202319min
Why the Indian Child Welfare Act is the Gold Standard in Family Law
Allison Herrera, the Indigenous affairs reporter at KOSU, returns to the show to introduce us to Hodalee and Jamie Sewell, who are in the process of adopting their great niece– a baby girl. She’s a Ch...
26 Jun 202332min
95 Unmarked Graves
In 2018, a few months into building a new school in Sugar Land, Texas, construction crews uncovered 95 unmarked graves. This wasn’t a serial killer’s dumping, but it was evidence of a particularly dar...
22 Jun 202344min
Juneteenth Is an Act of Bravery
It goes beyond the Emancipation Proclamation. It’s about liberating our own hearts and minds and staking a claim to freedom. On June 19th, 1865, roughly a quarter million enslaved people in Texas offi...
19 Jun 202352min
