Live From Atlanta: GA Politics, a Growing Gender Gap and Scenes From Spelhouse Homecoming's Tailgate
With the 2024 presidential election right around the corner, all eyes are on the swing states. In this episode, host Kai Wright travels to Atlanta, the heart of one swing state where early voting numb...
28 Okt 202449min
Author and Playwright Caryl Phillips on James Baldwin’s Friendship
In the sixth episode of “Notes on a Native Son,” writer Caryl Phillips shares the experience of getting to know James Baldwin beyond the pages of his work. Phillips not only respected Baldwin as a wri...
26 Okt 202429min
How Important is College to a Successful Career?
There is a longstanding, widely held belief that the best chance at a better future is to go off to college – especially for people from marginalized communities.Whether it was your teacher, general p...
21 Okt 202449min
Novelist Elif Shafak on James Baldwin’s Compassion
In the fifth episode of Notes on a Native Son, our guest is Turkish-British writer Elif Shafak. She has published 21 books, 13 of them novels — including “The Forty Rules of Love” and her latest, “The...
19 Okt 202429min
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Journey to the Supreme Court Has Been a ‘Lovely One’
Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson has always aspired to be a federal judge. In fact, the newest appointed associate justice of the United States Supreme Court wrote in her application to Harvard University...
14 Okt 202455min
Writer Darryl Pinckney on James Baldwin’s Love
In the fourth episode of “Notes on a Native Son,” our guest is the writer and essayist Darryl Pinckney. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books and The Village Voice. Mos...
12 Okt 202429min
‘Imperfect Allies’: Processing a Year of War Across Communities
A year ago, the world was shaken when Hamas militants entered Israel, resulting in the deaths of approximately 1,200 people and the kidnapping of hundreds more. It was one of the most devastating days...
7 Okt 202452min
Writer Siri Hustvedt on James Baldwin’s Complexity
In the third episode of “Notes on a Native Son,” host Razia Iqbal sits down with the celebrated writer of novels and essays, Siri Hustvedt. When Hustvedt was invited to record a conversation for the p...
5 Okt 202430min
