The Madness Of March
The NCAA men's basketball tournament is going on right now and will bring in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. The coaches and commissioners who benefit are overwhelmingly white. The players...
21 Mar 201826min
Who Is 'Us,' Anyway?
"Shouldn't you help out your own community first?" That's the question we're exploring this week via our play-cousins at Latino USA. A black celebrity is criticized for helping a Latino immigrant. On ...
14 Mar 201820min
Searching For A Home After Hate
In February 2017, Srinivas Kutchibhotla fell victim to an alleged hate crime. In the aftermath, his widow, Sunayana Dumala, had her life and her immigration status thrown into question. Now, she's try...
7 Mar 201818min
Throw Some Respeck On My Name
It's Alabama, 1963. A black woman stands before a judge, but she refuses to acknowledge him until he addresses her by an honorific given to white women: "Miss." On this week's episode, we revisit the ...
21 Feb 201827min
Feelings, Finances And Fetishes: Love Is A Racial Battlefield
To get y'all in the mood for Valentine's Day, we're exploring some of our juiciest listener love questions. Should your race and gender affect how much you pay into a relationship? What's the differen...
14 Feb 201826min
It's Not Just About The Blood
If you're Native American, who or what gets to define your identity? We dive into an old system intended to measure the amount of "Indian blood" a person has. We hear from two families about how they'...
7 Feb 201821min
The State Of Our Union Is...Uh, How Much Time You Got?
On the occasion of President Trump's first State of the Union speech, we're looking at where things stand on civil rights at the Justice Department, the state of play for the country's white nationali...
31 Jan 201831min
The 'R-Word' In The Age Of Trump
When Donald Trump allegedly referred to Haiti, El Salvador and some African countries as "shitholes," we called his comments r-...rr-...really really vulgar. Why were we so afraid to call them racist?...
24 Jan 201824min
