For today’s special pledge drive show, Thursday host Allen Ruff has a wide-ranging conversation with iconic prison abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore about the meaning of geography, why abolition, the “changing […]
The Buffalo Shooting, In Context
On May 14, 2002, eighteen-year-old Payton Gendron walked into a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York and opened fire. He killed ten people and wounded three […]
Treating Structural Racism to Heal America
Health is not an individual responsibility—it is shaped by environmental and social conditions. That’s been an important lesson of the pandemic and is the premise of Dayna Bowen Matthew’s new […]
Angelou’s image on a quarter fails to obscure an increasing raci...
The Maya Angelou quarter has been released, and monthly columnist for The Nation and The Daily Beast, Kali Holloway, has written that the irony of a 10-fold wealth gap between […]
Rebroadcast: Clint Smith on the Echoes of Slavery in America
Earlier this year, host Ali Muldrow interviewed poet and journalist Clint Smith about his new book, How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America. […]
Indigenous Deaths Ignored by Media
In June of this year, the whereabouts of Gabby Petito obsessed the nation, exploding over social media platforms, like TikTok and Instagram, and fostering a broadcast media frenzy to find […]
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