Kai Wright appears in the following:
The Secret Tapes of a Suburban Drug War
Monday, March 01, 2021
A cop in Westchester, NY, was disturbed by what he saw as corruption. He started recording his colleagues -- and revealed how we’re all still living with the excess of the war on drugs.
Blackness (Un)interrupted
Monday, February 22, 2021
Our Future of Black History series concludes with conversations about self-expression. Because when you carry a collective history in your identity, it can be hard to find yourself.
The Case Against Those ‘Tubman $20s’
Thursday, February 18, 2021
People are excited to replace Andrew Jackson’s face with an abolitionist hero. But Dr. Brittney Cooper argues not all honorifics are the same.
Addressing White Supremacy After Trump
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
What happens to white supremacy in America without Trump in the White House?
Impeachment: Catharsis and Impunity
Monday, February 15, 2021
The Senate’s trial and acquittal of Donald Trump left many with mixed emotions. But did it move us any closer to a reckoning with the worst of America’s political culture?
The ‘Beautiful Experiments’ Left Out of Black History
Monday, February 08, 2021
Saidiya Hartman introduces Kai to the young women whose radical lives were obscured by respectability politics, in the second installment of our Future of Black History series.
The Role of Black History Month in Black Lives
Thursday, February 04, 2021
United States of Anxiety's Kai Wright and Veralyn Williams talk about their feelings around Black History Month -- skepticism and enthusiasm, respectively, and its origins.
The Origin Story of Black History Month
Monday, February 01, 2021
We’ve got complicated relationships with this annual celebration -- from joy to frustration. So to launch our Future of Black History series, we ask how it began and what it can be.
New Hopes, Old Fears
Monday, January 25, 2021
Kai checks in with poet Jericho Brown, historian Kidada Williams, and listeners as we all try to transition out of the Trump presidency.
Life After Fascism: A Brief History
Thursday, January 21, 2021
Historian Timothy Snyder offers lessons on what could happen if those who enabled the attack on our democracy don’t face consequences.
Is the Biden Administration Ready to Tackle Systemic Racism?
Thursday, January 21, 2021
On Wednesday afternoon, Joe Biden became the first president in U.S. history to denounce white supremacy in an inaugural address.
Biden Proposes Sweeping Immigration Reform
Thursday, January 21, 2021
After his inauguration, President Joe Biden sent a piece of immigration reform legislation to Congress that would give roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship.
America Are We Ready for the First 100 Days?: Equity
Thursday, January 21, 2021
Join the national conversation Thursday evenings during the first 100 days of the Biden administration. This week: Can the Biden administration produce both unity and social justice?
Call-In with Kai Wright on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Monday, January 18, 2021
Kai Wright on the violent attack on the Capitol on January 6.
How Martin Luther King, Jr., Changed American Christianity
Monday, January 18, 2021
And what MLK’s uniquely Black theology can teach us about the relationship between faith and politics in 2021.
The American Story, in a Single Day
Monday, January 11, 2021
January 6, 2021, offered a hyper-condensed version of our country’s entire political history--with all of its complexity, inspiration, and terror.
The (Un)Making of a ‘Model Minority’
Monday, January 04, 2021
An odd racial pecking order puts Indian Americans in a curious place -- outside of whiteness, but distinct from other people of color. How’d that come to be? And is it changing?
America Are We Ready To Reconcile?
Monday, January 04, 2021
Brian Lehrer hosts a national conversation on overcoming polarization as the Congressional count of Electoral Votes is disrupted by violence.
Lessons From a Year in Isolation
Monday, December 28, 2020
A first draft of history for 2020, told through three very personal efforts to find -- and keep -- human connection amid a pandemic.
WNYC's Time Capsule Call-In Special
Sunday, December 27, 2020
As this historic year comes to a close, it's time to set aside what we want to remember. Today, a Time Capsule call-in special.
