Race, queerness, and superpowers in 'Everything, Everywhere, All at Once'
How can anything be more important than what's happening right now? That's the question a woman named Evelyn Wang is pondering right before she is thrust into a surreal, sci-fi multiverse, in the movi...
20 Apr 202225min
A makeup company gets a facelift
In the 70s and 80s, Fashion Fair was an iconic cosmetics company designed to create makeup for Black women of all shades. This is the story of that company's meteoric rise, its slow decline, and the t...
13 Apr 202224min
A New Movement on Standing Rock
What do you do when all your options for school kind of suck? That was the question some folks on the Standing Rock Reservation found themselves asking a couple of years ago. Young people were being h...
6 Apr 202236min
The dance that made its way from Harlem to Sweden
Lindy Hop is a dance that was born in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s — created and performed by African Americans in segregated clubs and dance halls. But today, one of the world's most vibrant Lindy H...
30 Mars 202242min
Why the N-word is so toxic
It is probably the most radioactive word in the English language. At the same time, the N-word is kind of everywhere: books, movies, music, comedy (not to mention the mouths of people who use it frequ...
23 Mars 202237min
Screams and Silence
This week marks the one year anniversary of a deadly shooting spree in Atlanta, where eight people were killed. Six of those people were Asian American. That violence came after Asian American organiz...
16 Mars 202231min
What's In A Dad?
Gene Demby and comedian Hari Kondabolu are both new fathers, and they're both learning to raise kids who will have very different identities and upbringings than their own. It's left both of them refl...
9 Mars 202228min
Mabel Fairbanks: The Ice Breaker
Figure skating has always been about flair and drama. But what happens on the ice is nothing compared to what goes on behind the scenes. This week, with the help of our friends at the Blind Landing po...
2 Mars 202239min
