KalaLea has been producing interviews and narrative features for almost five years for WNYC and the New Yorker Radio Hour, hosted by David Remnick.
KalaLea has a Master’s degree from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, where she has taught an Audio Reporting course. KalaLea is also the host of Season 2 of Blindspot: Tulsa Burning, a collaboration with the History Channel, WNYC Studios , KOSU and Focus Black Oklahoma. In 2022, KalaLea and the Tulsa Burning team were awarded a duPont Columbia Journalism Award, two Webby Awards for Best Series and Best Writing, as well as a NAACP Image Awardfor Outstanding News + Information Podcast. They were also nominated for a Peabody Award.
Before becoming a radio journalist, KalaLea worked as a digital producer and before that she was the co-owner of a little cafe in Brooklyn, NY.
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KalaLea appears in the following:
Friday, April 05, 2024
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KalaLea
Why are so many states restricting what schools can teach about racism? Two leading journalist-historians discuss the efforts to ban or rewrite the teaching of Black history.
Friday, March 29, 2024
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KalaLea
In her musical opening on Broadway, Keys tells a story very much like her own life, using her own hit songs—but don’t call it autobiographical.
Friday, March 22, 2024
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Jeffrey Masters /
KalaLea
The author creates a new inner life for a “Huckleberry Finn” character.
Friday, February 23, 2024
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KalaLea /
Jeffrey Masters
The “Killers of the Flower Moon” star talks with Michael Schulman about making history at this year’s Academy Awards, and the challenges facing Native actors in Hollywood.
Friday, February 09, 2024
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KalaLea
In her Netflix special, the comedian uses an act of oral sex as a springboard for a rapid-fire rant about the human condition, along with human anatomy.
Friday, February 02, 2024
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Jeffrey Masters /
KalaLea
Now that the border crisis has migrated into blue cities, the White House cannot avoid addressing a political liability. The staff writer Jonathan Blitzer talks with David Remnick.
Friday, January 26, 2024
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KalaLea
“American Fiction,” nominated for five Academy Awards, satirizes the literary world, and upends Hollywood conventions about Blackness.
Friday, January 26, 2024
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Max Balton
The president of the Committee to Protect Journalists discusses whether Israel is targeting Palestinian reporters, and looks at threats to the safety of journalists around the world.
Friday, January 19, 2024
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KalaLea
The chair of the powerful Congressional Progressive Caucus looks at whether Joe Biden can put the Democratic Party back together again in time to achieve victory in the 2024 election.
Friday, January 05, 2024
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KalaLea
The celebrated filmmaker is back with a challenging new movie intended to provoke a political response.
Friday, December 29, 2023
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KalaLea
The last major overhaul of the immigration system was in 1986. Changing conditions and a political impasse have created a state of chaos that the Biden Administration can no longer deny.
Friday, December 15, 2023
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KalaLea
Mosab Abu Toha, a Palestinian writer and New Yorker contributor, was detained by Israeli forces while he tried to flee Gaza with his family.
Friday, November 17, 2023
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KalaLea
The so-called godfather of A.I. believes we need to put constraints on the technology so it won’t free itself from human control. But he’s not sure whether that’s possible.
Friday, November 10, 2023
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KalaLea /
Max Balton
The Federal Trade Commission is suing the company. Lina Khan, the chair of the F.T.C., tells David Remnick that Amazon exploits its position as a monopoly to invisibly drive up costs.
Friday, November 03, 2023
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KalaLea
When the poet read the damning report on the police who killed Michael Brown, she imagined a different future embedded in it by erasing it into a work of lyric poetry.
Friday, November 03, 2023
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KalaLea
The mother whose teen-age boy’s death inspired a movement a little more than a decade ago continues to grieve his loss, and to demand accountability.
Friday, November 03, 2023
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KalaLea
Kai Wright leads a roundtable discussion about the attempts to reform policing in the wake of Black Lives Matter and whether those efforts have had a positive impact.
Friday, September 22, 2023
The author was nearly unknown when his second novel—about a shady, mega-rich financier—won the Pulitzer Prize. He talks with David Remnick about the “pure abstraction” of money.
Friday, August 11, 2023
The U.S. Education Secretary, Miguel Cardona, and the contributor Jeannie Suk Gersen on the movement to end legacy admissions—and the larger problem of equity in college acceptance.
Friday, July 14, 2023
Three critics—Doreen St. Félix, Alexandra Schwartz, and Inkoo Kang—discuss why so many scripted and reality shows use psychotherapy as a central plotline.