Summer Friday: Elie Mystal; Kimberlé Crenshaw; Mason Williams; Rossana Rosado

On this Summer Friday, we've put together some of our favorite recent interviews, including:

• Elie Mystal, justice correspondent and columnist for The Nation magazine and bestselling author of Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America (The New Press, 2025), looks back at the recently concluded Supreme Court term.
• Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, civil rights scholar, architect of Critical Race Theory and the concept of intersectionality, professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Columbia Law School, cofounder and executive director of the African American Policy Forum, and the author of Backtalker: An American Memoir (Simon & Schuster), talks about how key moment's in her life contributed to her groundbreaking legal concepts.
• Mason Williams, historian and associate professor at Williams College, and the author of City of Fortune: Inequality and the Making of Contemporary New York (W.W. Norton, 2026), argues that New York's recovery from the 1970s fiscal crisis ushered in an era of deepening inequality.
• Rossana Rosado, a commissioner of the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS), CUNY trustee, former New York Secretary of State, former editor, CEO and publisher of El Diario-La Prensa, and the author of memoir Bronx Attitude (Elite Voices/Halo, 2026), talks about her life and work.

These interviews were lightly polished up and edited for time, the original versions are available here:

Elie Mystal on the Supreme Court & the Constitution (July 7, 2026)

Kimberlé Crenshaw's Life and Work (May 11, 2026)

Today's Inequality & NYC's Post-1970s Recovery (July 7, 2026)

Rossana Rosado's Bronx Attitude (July 15, 2026)

Photo: People resting on grass at Sheep Meadow: Central Park, N.Y.C., 1997 (LBM1948, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)