We’re ending Black history month where we started it…talking about reparations. On this episode, we’re joined by Erika Alexander and Whitney Dow, who have spent …
Listen Up! David (Pronounced dah-VEED) Versus Goliath
Summer, 2004. The Olympics in Athens. The event? Men’s basketball: U.S. versus Puerto Rico. And the whole world knows that Puerto Rico doesn’t stand a …
Listen Up! Saving A Language You’re Learning To Speak
Every two weeks, a language dies with its last speaker. That was almost the fate of the Hawaiian language — until a group of young …
Listen Up! The White Elephants In The Room
One of the biggest storylines from the 2020 presidential race has … well, race at the center of it. If you paid attention to the …
Listen Up! We … Don’t Know Anything Yet
Election Day has come and gone, but we’re still awhile away from knowing what the outcome will be. But while there’s a lot we don’t …
Listen Up! An Historic Vote, Among Many
For a lot of reasons, the 2020 election feels historic. But in one important way, it’s like so many elections throughout American history: Black and …
Listen Up! An Historic Vote, Among Many
For a lot of reasons, the 2020 election feels historic. But in one important way, it’s like so many elections throughout American history: Black and …
Listen Up! Is Trump Really That Racist?
We know his rhetoric has been described as boundary-breaking when it comes to race. But U.S. presidents have been enacting racist policies forever. So as …
Listen Up! Let’s Talk About Kamala Harris
The VP candidate’s biography and heritage allow people to project all kinds of ideas onto her, and to see what they want to see. But …
Listen Up! Hip-Hop, Mass Incarceration, And A Conspiracy Theory For The Ages
Why are hip-hop and mass incarceration so entangled in the U.S.? That’s the question that our play cousins at NPR Music, Sidney Madden and Rodney …