Shanta Covington

How powerful is Speaker Nancy Pelosi?

Since the start of Senate confirmation hearings, one of the most pernicious lines of attack from Republican senators has been on Judge Jackson's sentencing with child pornography cases.

A conversation with the doctor who inspired the Disney character Doc McStuffins, Dr. Myiesha Taylor.

Why are the cases of missing Black women and girls not covered as extensively as other missing people? 

 Five decades of race, gender, and political power and how it all connects in the American midwest. 

The book “White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation’s An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order” examines the influential text and the powerful monied interests behind it.

The Takeaway looks at efforts to combat continued hate crimes against the Asian American and Pacific Island communities, and the need for more education, research, and policies.

A growing number of state-level laws restricting abortion access have already had real effects on the health of women and raised alarms about the future of reproductive justice.

After more than a century of advocacy, Congress finally passed federal anti-lynching legislation. The Takeaway looks at the work that Ida B. Wells did to call attention to lynchings.

Women Leading Locally, a Women’s History Month special focused on highlighting women breaking barriers, holding office, and making change. 

To celebrate Women’s History month, The Takeaway is partnering with the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University to bring you the stories of Women Leading Locally. 

A new CDC report shows that pregnancy related deaths for mothers rose in the first year of the pandemic. Black women continue to be disproportionately affected. 

Can there ever be true justice if most cases never make it to trial and instead are subject to plea bargaining?

Collier Meyerson, host of "Love Thy Neighbor" podcast discusses living in Crown Heights and the Crown Heights Riot of 1991.

The Women's National Basketball Association has fined the NY liberty organization $500,000 dollars for chartering flights for their team last season.

Richard Kim, the new Editor-in-chief of TheCity.nyc joins us to discuss his new position, the world of nonprofit newsrooms and how they can compete with their big money counterparts.

We spoke with Florida Representative Anna Eskamini as part of our Women Leading Locally series.

We dissected the issues he covered and the issues he left out with Pablo Manríquez, Capitol Hill correspondent for Latino Rebels and Michael Tomasky, editor for The New Republic. 

For Women’s History month, The Takeaway is joining forces with the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) to bring you the stories of Women Leading Locally.

Rashad Robinson, the president of Color of Change joins for our final, February installment of Black.Queer.Rising.