Valerie Jarrett on Impeachment... And the Next 100 Days
With Inauguration Day only a week away—and impeachment proceedings raging around us—host Brittany Packnett Cunningham talks to a woman who’s seen it all: Valerie Jarrett, the longtime Obama advisor no...
14 Jan 202137min
America Ferrera Is Talking ‘Bout a Cultural Revolution
This was a rollercoaster of a week—but before there was a white nationalist coup, there was a major, momentous Senate victory in Georgia. How did it happen? And how can we do it again, and again? Host...
8 Jan 202135min
BONUS: What Just Happened?
Reflections on a day of white supremacy run rampant. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...
7 Jan 20216min
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
