'I'm Not A Racist, I'm Argentine!'
On this week's episode, a viral video gives us the opportunity to talk about racism towards and within the Latino community. When a Latino flipped over a street vendor's cart in Los Angeles, many were...
30 Aug 201720min
The Unfinished Battle In the Capital Of The Confederacy
As calls to remove Confederate memorials grow louder, we head to Richmond, Va., where the veneration of Confederate leaders has been a source of local pride — and revulsion — for more than a century.S...
23 Aug 201731min
Charlottesville
After a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville spiraled into deadly violence, residents of the Virginia town do some soul-searching. Plus: a scholar on the politics of white resentment, and a GOP ...
16 Aug 201732min
Who's Your Great-Great-Great-Great Granddaddy?
Spit into a tube and get in touch with your ancestors! Or not. On this episode we interview the founder of a project that uses DNA tests to talk about race in America. And Kim TallBear, a Native Ameri...
9 Aug 201727min
The U.S. Census and Our Sense of Us
The Census is so much more than cold, hard data. It's about what we call ourselves, the ways we see ourselves and how we're represented. On this episode we ask the former head of the Census bureau why...
2 Aug 201725min
What's Good? Talking Hip-Hop and Race With Stretch & Bobbito
Shereen and Gene mix it up with the pioneering hip-hop radio hosts Stretch and Bobbito. These impresarios ran a legendary show in New York City during most of the 1990s. Now they're hosting an intervi...
26 Juli 201723min
What's So Wrong With African Americans Wearing African Clothes?
Leila Day and Hana Baba are hosts of a new podcast called The Stoop. It features conversations black people have amongst themselves — but rarely in public. The pair swing by to talk with Shereen and G...
19 Juli 201724min
A Police Video From Charlotte
This encore presentation goes deep on a case involving a white police officer and an unarmed black man in Charlotte, NC. Videos in police-involved shootings can add detail to these cases, but as our c...
12 Juli 201744min
