Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIn praise of long-scorned Black women's hair
When Will Smith slapped Chris Rock during the Oscars for a joke the latter made about the hairstyle of Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, it brought f…
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A soldier's funeral in Ukraine
L.A. Times foreign correspondent Patrick J. McDonnell has covered Ukrainian refugees flooding into Poland and the funerals for Ukrainian soldiers in …
4 years, 1 month ago
California tries to figure out reparations
Two brothers near Sacramento are fighting for compensation for the land they say was taken from their formerly enslaved ancestors during the Gold Rus…
4 years, 1 month ago
A lot of magic with "Winning Time"
“Binge Sesh” is a new L.A. Times podcast taking a deep dive into the television shows everyone is talking about. For its inaugural season, the series…
4 years, 1 month ago
An existential crisis for the Oscars
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has added and subtracted elements to this year’s Oscars. A roundtable of L.A. Times film and televisi…
4 years, 1 month ago
Where's Jack?
What lengths would you go to find someone you love? Even as their disappearance edges closer and closer to becoming a cold case? Today, we have the s…
4 years, 1 month ago
The medieval prince that Putin adores
In the war for Ukraine, it’s Zelensky versus Putin. Two men with essentially the same first name fighting for their place in history — not just for t…
4 years, 1 month ago
Disney's stumbles on "Don't Say Gay" bill
For the past two decades, Disney’s reputation in the LGBTQ community has been stellar. It was one of the first Fortune 500 companies to offer same-se…
4 years, 1 month ago
Ketanji Brown Jackson is feeling supreme
Today, hearings will begin to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court to fill the seat of retiring Justice Stephen Breyer. Jackson’s …
4 years, 1 month ago
Townies versus gownies battle for Berkeley
Thousands of students apply to UC Berkeley every year. It’s one of the most applied-to universities in the entire U.S. But the city of Berkeley is al…
4 years, 1 month ago