Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah on “Friday Black”

What is it about a bookstore? You walk in planning to browse for a few minutes, and somehow an hour later you’re still wandering the stacks with an armful of books you can’t seem to put down. For this week’s episode, our guest host, MJ Franklin, and the producer Sarah Diamond tak ...  Show more

Imagine, if you will, that for unknown reasons North Korea has just launched a nuclear bomb at the United States. What happens next? The journalist Annie Jacobsen has imagined exactly that, and spent more than a decade interviewing dozens of experts while mastering the voluminous ...  Show more

"My Vanishing Country" author Bakari Sellers discusses the systemic, deadly levels of oppression facing people of color in the U.S. and reacts to the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener f ...  Show more

Trevor discusses the murders of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd, the Minneapolis protests, and how racial injustice and police brutality continue to impact black Americans. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for p ...  Show more

It’s time to tell the truth about policing and crime. Today, I contrast the extremely rare case of unarmed black people being shot by police to the epidemic of homicides in black communities. Homicides are the single biggest cause of death for black people under 35. And it’s gett ...  Show more

Black Americans being victimized and killed by the police is an epidemic. A truth many Americans are acknowledging since the murder of George Floyd, as protests have occurred in all fifty states calling for justice on his behalf. But this tension between African American communit ...  Show more