Presenting This is Uncomfortable: Writer Hanif Abdurraqib on what it Means to “Make it”
This is Uncomfortable is a podcast from Marketplace. For their season premiere earlier in 2024, host Reema Khrais shared a conversation with one of our favorite writers, Hanif Abdurraqib, and we're ex...
21 Nov 202436min
It’s Trump’s Policy, But Both Parties Set the Stage for Mass Deportations
For nearly a decade, Donald Trump and his political allies have made it clear that one of their primary goals is mass deportation of undocumented people living in the U.S. After the election, this rhe...
18 Nov 202448min
Nikki Giovanni on James Baldwin's Anger
As a young woman, poet and writer Nikki Giovanni could see that no one was interested in a Black girl writing what was seen as militant and revolutionary poetry. So she formed a company and published ...
16 Nov 202427min
A Majority of Voters Have Endorsed Cruelty. So Now What?
What do the results of the presidential election tell us about our country? We asked a veteran movement organizer to reflect on what feels like a rejection of her core values.To help him make sense of...
12 Nov 202450min
Author Colm Toibin on James Baldwin’s Interiority
Award-winning Irish writer Colm Toibin has long admired James Baldwin, ever since he read “Go Tell It on the Mountain" as a teenager, and has now written a book about him called simply “On James Baldw...
9 Nov 202429min
The Real Reason Why the Lies and Violent Rhetoric Won’t Stop On Election Day
Former President Donald Trump has spent the last days of his 2024 campaign casting doubt on the U.S. election system, even taking the stage at a rally in Pennsylvania to say he “shouldn’t have left” t...
4 Nov 202450min
Biographer David Leeming on James Baldwin’s Teaching
In the seventh episode of “Notes on a Native Son" our guest is writer, philologist and James Baldwin biographer David Leeming. In the biography, Leeming tells us that almost from the moment h e met Ba...
2 Nov 202440min
In Michigan, Arab Americans Weigh the Power of a Vote
This presidential election is likely to be a squeaker, decided by a handful of votes in some key swing states. In this episode from our friends at the podcast Code Switch, we visit one of them — Michi...
31 Okt 202443min
