We Aren't Who We Think We Are

In 1775, half a million enslaved people had to pick a side in a war between two groups of white men who both claimed to want freedom. In this live episode of Our Ancestors Were Messy, friend of the show, Nichole Hill takes B.A. Parker and Gene Demby through the choices one man ma ...  Show more

Last year President Trump made English the official language of the United States. Then his administration moved to zero out the federal money that teaches it. But even fully funded, those programs reached fewer than five-percent of the 25 million adults in this country still lea ...  Show more

Who we are is closely tied to what we—and others—know about ourselves. These stories offer examples of how that might be taken to the extreme.

Our family and where we come from are often core elements of our identity. But as folklore and tragic real life events have made clear over the years, not everything is as simple as it would appear.

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Family secrets, family history and family curses are all ways we explain away the traumas that we pass from generation to generation. You can’t heal what you can’t feel, and this week Khadeen and Devale are talking about all the ways they hope to change their family’s future. Dea ...  Show more

Humans have a way of getting themselves into some pretty amazing situations. In fact, the stories about that are more than a little curious.