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From First America: Merciless Indian Savages
Jun 29, 2026
36m 40s
Ted Danson on Comedy with a Conscience from Who's with Me? with W. Kamau Bell
Jun 10, 2026
1h 33m 13s
Thank You For Being Some of Our Best Friends
Aug 16, 2023
54m 05s
Samantha Irby is Quietly Hostile & Raucously Funny
Aug 9, 2023
43m 20s
The End of Affirmative Action
Aug 2, 2023
44m 09s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/29/26 | ![]() From First America: Merciless Indian Savages | We have been told the Revolution was fought over taxation and representation. But what the founders were most angry about in our country’s most famous document was Indian affairs. How did generations of Americans miss this? Hosted and reported by Indigenous author Rebecca Nagle and featuring leading Native historians, First America shares the true story of how the United States came to be, and how our current political moment was 250 years in the making. Here's the first episode. Rebecca sits down with historian Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone) to talk about how hunger for Indigenous land drove the Revolution. Find more episodes of First America wherever you get podcasts. Get episodes early and ad-free with a Pushkin+ subscription. Sign up on the First America show page on Apple Podcasts or at pushkin.fm/plus.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 36m 40s | ||||||
| 6/10/26 | ![]() Ted Danson on Comedy with a Conscience from Who's with Me? with W. Kamau Bell✨ | comedyactivism+4 | Ted Danson | CheersMike Schur+1 | — | Ted DansonW. Kamau Bell+6 | — | 1h 33m 13s | |
| 8/16/23 | ![]() Thank You For Being Some of Our Best Friends✨ | poetryracial justice+3 | avery r. young | Pushkin Industriesavery r. young+1 | — | poet laureateKhalil+5 | — | 54m 05s | |
| 8/9/23 | ![]() Samantha Irby is Quietly Hostile & Raucously Funny✨ | comedywriting+4 | Samantha Irby | Wow, No Thank YouWe Are Never Meeting in Real Life+2 | — | Samantha Irbycomedy+5 | — | 43m 20s | |
| 8/2/23 | ![]() The End of Affirmative Action✨ | affirmative actionhigher education+4 | Anurima Bhargava | Civil Rights Division of Obama’s Department of Justice | Kenwood AcademyChicago | affirmative actionSupreme Court+5 | — | 44m 09s | |
| 7/26/23 | ![]() Fantastic Future: Reimagining the American City✨ | urban designcity planning+3 | Toni Griffin | Harvard School of DesignJust City Lab | — | urban designToni Griffin+3 | — | 49m 46s | |
| 7/19/23 | ![]() From The Last Archive: Acting Out✨ | social network analysiswomen's reformatory+3 | — | Pushkin IndustriesThe Last Archive | — | social network analysiswomen's reformatory+3 | — | 50m 07s | |
| 7/12/23 | ![]() America’s Poverty is by Design✨ | povertysociety+4 | Matthew Desmond | Poverty, By AmericaEvicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City+1 | — | povertyAmerica+5 | — | 48m 09s | |
| 7/5/23 | ![]() Ben and Khalil Go South✨ | Southern identityConfederacy history+3 | — | Sewanee University | SouthUniversity of the South | Sewanee UniversitySouthern identity+3 | — | 37m 12s | |
| 6/28/23 | ![]() The FBI’s War on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.✨ | Civil Rights MovementBiography+3 | Jonathan Eig | FBIKing: A Life | — | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Jonathan Eig+3 | — | 50m 42s | |
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| 6/21/23 | ![]() Immigrants Aren't the Problem✨ | immigrationhumanitarian crisis+3 | Carolina Rubio-MacWright | Touching Land | ChicagoNew York+1 | immigrationhumanitarian crisis+5 | — | 44m 08s | |
| 6/14/23 | ![]() Are We in a Civil War? | Jeff Sharlet started reporting from Donald Trump’s rallies in 2015, when his presidential campaign stoked a resurgence of white nationalism and white supremacy. Since then, Jeff has traveled the country exploring the growing threats and eruptions of political violence. He writes about these experiences in his New York Times bestselling book The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War, and he sat down with Ben and Khalil to discuss the book and his belief that we are, today, in the midst of a gradually unfolding civil war. Additional links: The Undertow by Jeff SharletSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 42m 40s | ||||||
| 6/7/23 | ![]() To the Hip Hop You Don’t Stop with Jelani Cobb | Ben and Khalil are joined by their friend Jelani Cobb, Dean of Columbia Journalism School and New Yorker staff writer, to talk about 50 years of hip hop. They discuss what the music meant to them growing up in Chicago and New York. They talk about the documentary Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World, and also about how the music’s legacy lives on. Additional links: Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World, Chuck D’s PBS documentary Hip Hop at 50: An Elegy by Jelani Cobb for The New YorkerSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 46m 45s | ||||||
| 5/31/23 | ![]() Ending the Cycle of Police Violence with Keith Ellison | It’s been three years since George Floyd was murdered by the police. After a swell of action followed by inaction, an important question remains: What still needs to change to break the cycle of police violence in America? Khalil and Ben talk to Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison about prosecuting the officers who killed Floyd. The three also debate their visions of what justice looks like. This conversation was recorded live at the Chicago Humanities Festival. Order Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence here To learn more about Chicago Humanities, visit their website: https://www.chicagohumanities.org/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 43m 25s | ||||||
| 5/3/23 | ![]() Truth and Reconciliation: A Lesson from South Africa | Khalil talks to Ben about a recent trip he took to South Africa and what America can learn from the country’s efforts to reckon with its racist past. Nearly 30 years after apartheid ended, reconciliation remains elusive and reparations are still unpaid.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 38m 16s | ||||||
| 4/26/23 | ![]() Why Can't We Be Friends? | Friendships like Ben and Khalil's are rare in America, according to the numbers. In this episode, they talk about the social science on interracial friendships, and about the particular conditions that made their friendship possible. Plus, why these friendships are important in bridging our deeply divided country.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 37m 42s | ||||||
| 4/19/23 | ![]() What’s Wrong with ‘You People’? | Romance across race and religion has been the focus of a bunch of movies – some comedies, some dramas. Kenya Barris and Jonah Hill are taking a swing at it now, with their new movie, ‘You People.’ Ben and Khalil talk about its attempts to address the intricacies of a relationship between a Black, Muslim woman and a white, Jewish man. Is this a successful update to the 1967 classic ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 41m 23s | ||||||
| 4/12/23 | ![]() Taking a Knee with Malcolm Gladwell | Sports have always been political, despite what some fans might like to believe. So what role should athletes play in political movements? Malcolm Gladwell joins Ben and Khalil to discuss the history of activism in sports, including his recent podcast, Legacy of Speed, about Tommie Smith and John Carlos – two Black sprinters who raised their fists in protest at the 1968 Olympic Games. Listen to Legacy of Speed at pushkin.fm, or wherever you get your podcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 53m 39s | ||||||
| 4/5/23 | ![]() From Started From the Bottom: How Charlamagne Turned Failure Into Success | Here’s a special episode from a new Pushkin podcast, Started From the Bottom. Host Justin Richmond interviews successful people with humble origins who managed to scale the summit of success – people who grew up on the outside, people of color, people who weren’t part of the old boys’ network. Justin recently sat down with media firebrand Charlamagne Tha God – over his 25 year career, he’s clawed his way to the top of the radio industry. Justin asked the long-time host of The Breakfast Club what it took for him – a young man suffering from anxiety, constantly in and out of jail – to become an icon of modern media. Hear more from Started From the Bottom at apple.co/thebottom.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 49m 43s | ||||||
| 3/29/23 | ![]() Can Multiracial Adoption End Racism? | Matthew Guterl is a historian of race and nation at Brown University, and also Khalil’s other white best friend. He joins the show to discuss his powerful new memoir, Skinfolk. It’s about his experience growing up in New Jersey during the 1970s, part of a large family with multiracial and adopted siblings. The three of them have a frank conversation about family dynamics and the limits of transracial adoption. You can order a copy of Skinfolk here: https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324091714See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 52m 20s | ||||||
| 3/22/23 | ![]() The Jeffersons vs. Sanford & Son | Ben and Khalil throw it back to the 1970s to talk about the TV shows they loved growing up – two of the greatest and most important sit-coms: Sanford & Son and The Jeffersons. They discuss how the shows handle race, class and comedy. And how the small screen and the world it reflects have changed since then. If you’d like to rewatch Sanford & Son or The Jeffersons, both are available on Amazon Prime Video. Further Reading: The Media Dramas of Norman Lear - Michael J. Arlen, The New Yorker Jake Austen’s zine Roctober on the vast comedic work of Redd FoxxSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 44m 06s | ||||||
| 3/15/23 | ![]() Why We Love and Hate Hollywood | Khalil and Ben go to the movies with the perfect partner: Jacqueline Stewart, the director and president of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. They talk about how movies shape our lives, and why representation matters… on the big screen and at awards shows (Oscars still so white). To learn more about the museum, visit their website: https://www.academymuseum.org/en/ To see the full clip of Sacheen Littlefeather rejecting the Best Actor award on behalf of Marlon Brando click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QUacU0I4yU&ab_channel=Oscars See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 45m 15s | ||||||
| 3/8/23 | ![]() How to Write the Past & Future with Clint Smith | Author and poet Clint Smith joins Ben and Khalil to talk about his new collection of poetry, “Above Ground.” They also discuss his previous book, “How the Word Is Passed,” a series of essays evaluating how America reckons with and memorializes slavery. To learn more about Clint Smith and order his books, go to his website: https://www.clintsmithiii.com/ Further reading: Tyre Nichols Wanted to Capture the Sunset - Clint Smith, The Atlantic Monuments to the Unthinkable - Clint Smith, The AtlanticSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 46m 04s | ||||||
| 3/1/23 | ![]() Kamala Harris for President? | Jamal Simmons spent a year working as the communications director for Vice President Kamala Harris. In his first podcast interview since leaving the job, Jamal talks with Ben and Khalil about everything it takes to be vice president. What is the role of a VP? What challenges has Vice President Harris faced as the first woman of color to have the job? What should we make of criticisms of her from both the left and the right? What are VP Harris's prospects as a likely future presidential candidate?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 57m 52s | ||||||
| 2/22/23 | ![]() Florida Man Attacks ‘Woke’ Curriculum | Florida Governor Ron DeSantis succeeded in stripping important ideas and essential people out of the new curriculum for the national Advanced Placement African American Studies course. Khalil and Ben discuss why people like DeSantis are working so hard to obscure parts of our history. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 45m 59s | ||||||
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