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  • 40 years ago, Philadelphia police bombed this Black neighborhood on live TV

    40 years ago, Philadelphia police bombed this Black neighborhood on live TV
    2025/05/07
    We're looking back on the day a Philadelphia police department helicopter dropped a bomb on a rowhouse in a middle-class neighborhood. Even though that bombing and the fire it set off killed eleven people and left hundreds homeless, it's been largely forgotten. So how did we collectively memory-hole an event this big? And what does that tell us about race and policing even today?

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    36 分
  • In the face of trans erasure, what can we learn from Marsha P. Johnson?

    In the face of trans erasure, what can we learn from Marsha P. Johnson?
    2025/04/30
    Marsha P. Johnson was a trailblazer in the fight for gay rights. But Johnson's legacy extends beyond her activism: "Marsha was a really full person who lived a vibrant life. She was a muse and model for Andy Warhol," and a performer in New York City and London. In this episode, we talk to activist and author Tourmaline about what we can all learn from Johnson's legacy in times of adversity.

    Tourmaline's two books about Marsha P. Johnson — Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson and One Day in June — are out on May 20, 2025.

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    32 分
  • Why now is the time to find power in "otherness"

    Why now is the time to find power in "otherness"
    2025/04/23
    Viet Thanh Nguyen came to the U.S. as a refugee from Vietnam when he was four years old. Growing up in San Jose, California, Nguyen remembers the moment he understood he was Asian-American. In his latest book, To Save and To Destroy: Writing as an Other, Nguyen examines the power in finding solidarity with other Others, especially in today's America.

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    31 分
  • Revisiting the fight over the Lakota language as Trump targets "divisive narratives"

    Revisiting the fight over the Lakota language as Trump targets "divisive narratives"
    2025/04/16
    As the Trump administration targets the Smithsonian Institute for "divisive narratives" and "improper ideology," it got us thinking about how we preserve our history and everything that builds it, like language. So we're revisiting an episode from last year from the Lakota Nation in South Dakota over language — who preserves it, who has the right to the stories told in it, and who (literally) owns it.

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    42 分
  • Why Trump is sending Venezuelans to El Salvador

    Why Trump is sending Venezuelans to El Salvador
    2025/04/09
    One of President Trump's main campaign promises was carrying out mass deportations. We look at how the Trump administration is testing the U.S. legal system to make good on its promise, starting with the story of one family trying to find their 18-year-old son after immigration agents showed up at their doorstep.

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    38 分
  • What's lost in Trump's DEI ban?

    What's lost in Trump's DEI ban?
    2025/04/02
    President Trump has put diversity, equity, and inclusion in his crosshairs — but there's no consensus on what DEI even means. Some say that that fuzziness is the point, and that the current anti-DEI push is part of a larger plan to undo the gains made by the Civil Rights Movement.

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    32 分
  • With measles on the rise, what we can learn from past epidemics

    With measles on the rise, what we can learn from past epidemics
    2025/03/26
    As the U.S. health system grapples with new outbreaks and the risk of old diseases making a comeback, we're looking to the past to inform how people in marginalized communities can prepare themselves for how the current administration might handle an epidemic. On this episode, a conversation with historian and author Edna Bonhomme, about her latest book A History of the World in Six Plagues.

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    30 分
  • What Mahmoud Khalil's arrest means for ... everyone

    What Mahmoud Khalil's arrest means for ... everyone
    2025/03/19
    Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident and Columbia alum, was detained by ICE for his role in leading pro-Palestinian protests at his former university last year. As Khalil's case has captured the nation's attention, free speech advocates see it as a test of the First Amendment. Meanwhile, the Trump administration argues they have the right to deport Khalil without charging him with a crime. On this episode, why Khalil's arrest should worry all of us.

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    37 分