Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drew Are Building Black Futures
Who do you call for perspective on the craziest year in recent memory? Two expert dreamers—New York Times critic Jenna Wortham and curator Kimberly Drew, co-editors of the ambitious new book Black Fut...
22 Dec 202034min
Flattening the Curve of Inequality
Vaccines are here. We can almost, kind of, sort of see the light at the end of the tunnel. But what world will we be coming out into? That’s what we’re exploring this week—from an intersectional femin...
17 Dec 202039min
Sue Bird Won't Shut Up and Dribble
Fresh off her fourth WNBA championship and newly engaged to soccer star Megan Rapinoe, basketball phenom Sue Bird sits down with host Brittany Packnett Cunningham to talk about her own leadership on s...
10 Dec 202029min
Tracee Ellis Ross Is The Lead in Her Own Life
How do the roles we see influence our own choices in life? That’s a subject Tracee Ellis Ross has thought a LOT about. As the 7th season of “Black-ish” returns to TV—and early-2000s fan favorite “Girl...
3 Dec 202034min
Nikki Giovanni Believes Your Dreams Are Worth It
Living legend alert: On this Thanksgiving—or "Friends and Family Day,” as we call it around here—host Brittany Packnett Cunningham talks to much-celebrated poet Nikki Giovanni. And Giovanni brings all...
26 Nov 202033min
Rebecca Traister Is Still Good and Mad
Yes, we just had an election that promises to make life better for many women. But our guest this week—New York Magazine writer-at-large Rebecca Traister—is “wary of the feel-good narrative.” She tell...
19 Nov 202033min
LaTosha Brown Is Betting On the South
With the election of a lifetime just days behind us, host Brittany Packnett Cunningham talks to one of the organizers who made the Biden-Harris victory happen—Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Br...
12 Nov 202032min
Soledad O’Brien Is Calling It Like It Is
In our election special—recorded the day after election day—host Brittany Packnett Cunningham talks to award-winning journalist Soledad O’Brien about the big question this week: How did this election ...
5 Nov 202027min
