I Was A Child of Dread
In Safiya Sinclair’s new memoir, “How to Say Babylon: A Memoir,” the award-winning poet and essayist is revisiting her youth as a Rastafari girl. Being Rasta is about so much more than what shows up ...
25 Dec 202350min
Why NYC’s Move to Privatize Public Housing Could Impact the Rest of the Country
When Fanta Kaba was growing up, her family moved around a lot: Harlem, Queens, the Bronx, even North Carolina for a while. But when they moved into public housing, they finally found stability. Now, a...
18 Dec 202350min
Remembering Rapper Prodigy As A Cure For Sickle Cell Emerges
The FDA’s approval of gene-editing therapy to effectively treat sickle cell disease has many people hopeful while also thinking about the many lives lost to the disease. One of the most high profile p...
13 Dec 202329min
What the New Cure for Sickle Cell Disease Really Means
The Food and Drug Administration has approved gene therapy as a treatment for sickle cell disease, effectively making a cure available to many people affected by the genetic disease. Sickle cell disea...
11 Dec 202350min
Bias in A.I. and the Risks of Continued Development, with Dr. Joy Buolamwini
This week on Notes from America, host Kai Wright talks with Dr. Joy Buolamwini, a computer scientist who uses art and research to illuminate the social implications of artificial intelligence. The sel...
4 Dec 202350min
Out of hope? Maybe stop for a sandwich and a song.
Playwright Lynn Nottage says it’s in her nature to be optimistic. And if it’s true what they say that you can manifest good things by thinking positively, well, it’s worked out for her in myriad ways....
27 Nov 202350min
How Boston’s Big Dig built our expectations of American infrastructure
Boston's Big Dig started as a vision for a large-scale highway tunnel system that became a cautionary tale about American infrastructure. Guest host Nancy Solomon speaks with Ian Coss, host of The Big...
20 Nov 202351min
Nikki Giovanni and Kimberly McGlonn on space travel, sustainable fashion and Black liberation
Guest host Janae Pierre sits down with legendary poet and activist Nikki Giovanni, who is the subject of a new documentary, Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project. Giovanni reflects on the legacy o...
13 Nov 202350min
