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How We Got Here: Empire, host Prof. Sheila Coronel
There is a long tradition of imperial denial in the United States. After all, Americans fought the British Empire and have always thought of themselv…
4 years, 8 months ago
How We Got Here: Whiteness, host Prof. Samuel G. Freedman
Whiteness in America isn’t just the neutral norm against which racial minorities, particularly Black people, are measured. Whiteness in America means…
4 years, 9 months ago
How We Got Here: The Half-Life of Democracy, host Prof. Jelani Cobb
The issue of police violence and racism is a familiar one. It’s been present in the United States since the Republic's beginnings. And the stories of…
4 years, 9 months ago
How We Got Here: Trailer
How We Got Here is a podcast for journalists about how history and identity shape narrative. As journalists, we like to say we’re writing the first …
4 years, 9 months ago
Special Report: Inside the toxic mediasphere of Black exceptionalism
When Samuel Getachew was a sixth grader in the Oakland public school system, Akintunde Ahmad was a “hometown hero,” headed to Yale. On this week’s Ki…
4 years, 9 months ago
Nikole Hannah-Jones on the use of power
How do we report and contextualize the January 6 insurrection, or the largest efforts to suppress the vote since the Voting Rights Act was passed in …
4 years, 9 months ago
Errol Louis: Inside City Hall for the New York City primaries
The pandemic’s limits on primary candidates and the journalists who cover them; a drastically shorter campaign season; and all but absent public poll…
4 years, 10 months ago
Carole Cadwalladr, Covid-19, and the fight against collective amnesia
At the start of the pandemic, the UK government’s suppression of data prompted Carole Cadwalladr and her colleagues at All the Citizens to found Inde…
4 years, 10 months ago
The Tokyo Olympics, Naomi Osaka, and the death of sports access
With over ten thousand athletes from more than two hundred countries, the Olympics are typically a sports writer’s dream. But with Covid protocols in…
4 years, 11 months ago
Alden and Tribune: ‘A crash course in capitalism’
About half of daily local newspaper circulation in the US is now controlled by hedge funds. On this week’s Kicker, Rebecca Lurye, a reporter for the …
4 years, 11 months ago