Kai Wright appears in the following:
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.
The Racist History of Georgia’s Runoff
Monday, December 21, 2020
Segregationists gamed the system 57 years ago. But this year, Black organizers may have finally slipped the knot that Jim Crow tied around democracy in the state.
Tell It To Me Straight, Doc
Monday, December 14, 2020
Two Black physicians describe the racist history the medical world carries into the COVID-19 vaccine rollout -- and answer listeners’ questions about why we should still get vaccinated.
ACT UP, Fight Covid
Monday, December 07, 2020
The HIV epidemic is nearly 40 years old. So what can we learn from that pandemic, as we approach a year of living with COVID-19?
One Family’s Land of Opportunity
Monday, November 30, 2020
A family’s legend about "40 acres and a mule” takes host Kai Wright on a fact checking mission to the Mississippi Delta. He finds an unexpected solution to wealth inequality in the U.S.
MAGA, the New Confederate Lost Cause
Monday, November 16, 2020
White supremacist myths turn defeated leaders into heroic victors. Will Donald Trump now get the same transfiguration as Robert E. Lee?
What the Election Means for New York and New Jersey
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
WNYC’s politics reporter Brigid Bergin and New Jersey Public Radio’s Nancy Solomon join us to take your calls and answer how recent elections are impacting our communities.
