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Muslim Americans in the Media: From Islamophobia to Power

Prefer to Listen? Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform (Available 5/1). Dangerous stereotypes around Muslim Americans persist, with very real consequences for Muslim  people and American democracy...

Chuck D & Rosa Clemente: Hip Hop’s Unfinished Revolution

Prefer to Listen? Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform (Available 4/24). Chuck D of Public Enemy famously called Hip Hop "the Black CNN". As Hip Hop celebrated...

Black Journalists on Police Violence: Reporting from the Ground Up

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V (formerly Eve Ensler): Reckoning with Our Past, Transforming the Future

Prefer to Listen? Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform. “Reckoning” is the new best-selling book from V (formerly Eve Ensler), author of “The Vagina Monologues” and founder...

Undercovered Realities / Innovative Reporters: BIPOC Media in 2023

Prefer to Listen? Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform. Water price hikes, the end of federal relief; what’s driving houselessness and food insecurity in 2023, and what’s...

Time to Stop Trashing the Luddites?

Subscribe to our podcast to listen on your favorite podcast platform. Twenty-three minutes. That’s how long it takes for your brain to refocus after shifting from one task to the next. Check your email, glance...

Johann Hari: Get Your Mind Back / Save Democracy?

Prefer to Listen? Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform. Are we too distracted to think? The answer is worse than you’d expect. In his latest book, New...

Abigail Disney: The American Dream or Nightmare for Workers?

Prefer to Listen? Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform.  Is the American Dream dead? When Abigail Disney, the granddaughter of one of the founders of Disney, received...

“The Future is Disabled”: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Prefer to Listen? Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform (Available 1/9/23). “At the core of my work and life is the belief that disabled wisdom is the...

Ask Angola Prison: What Difference Can a Play Make? 

Prefer to Listen? Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform. In 2020, the authorities at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (better known as Angola, for the former plantation on...

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