Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw On the Truth About Critical Race Theory
In recent months, Republican lawmakers in close to a dozen states have been trying to stop schools from teaching Critical Race Theory—or really any examination of America’s history of oppression. So w...
1 Juli 202137min
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Finally Fixing the Military’s Sexual Assault Problem
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has been speaking up for sexual assault survivors in the military for the better part of a decade. The military currently “addresses” (or fails to address) thousands of...
24 Juni 202130min
The “Grandmother of Juneteenth” on the Holiday’s Past, Present and Future
This week, Congress voted to designate Juneteenth a federal holiday—something Opal Lee has spent years trying to make happen. The 94-year-old Texas-raised activist and author—known as the “Grandmother...
17 Juni 202131min
Lawyer Chase Strangio On “Genocidal” Anti-Trans Laws—And Resistance
2021 has already been declared the worst year in U.S. history for legislative attacks against the LGBTQ community...and we’re not even halfway through! Against that backdrop, ACLU lawyer Chase Strangi...
10 Juni 202136min
Amani on Why This Moment “Feels Different” For Palestinians
After last month’s devastating violence in Palestine and Israel, global public opinion began to shift in support of the Palestinian people. That’s long-overdue, says Amani, the Palestinian-American ac...
3 Juni 202131min
‘Queen Sugar’ Author Natalie Baszile on the New Black Farming Revolution
In a week that marks one year since George Floyd's death, there’s no better time to talk about cultivating the world we deserve. Queen Sugar author Natalie Baszile believes that true Black freedom is ...
27 Maj 202136min
Travon Free Wants To Flip The Script on Masculinity
Feminism is not just about changing the ways we raise girls—in the words of host Brittany Packnett Cunningham, “men need to be freed too, y’all!” And Travon Free, the filmmaker who just won an Oscar f...
20 Maj 202135min
Nikole Hannah-Jones Wants Us To Confront The Truth of Who We Are
New York Times Magazine reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones is the creator of The 1619 Project, a multimedia effort about the legacy of slavery, and how it still informs American life. It won her a Pulitzer ...
13 Maj 202134min
