Karen Frillmann

Joy. Freedom. Resilience. We kick off a summer playlist project with selections from the Black women who have defined pop.

The YA author talks about his successes, fears, and his new podcast that explores his relationship with his mother.

Cryptocurrency promised to democratize the financial world by giving people equal access to banking tools. It has potential, but also a long way to go.

Decoding the Jan. 6th Insurrection – what we should have learned from the past and what we must remember for the future.

After the Jaguars compete in the city championship, students and coaches ask: was it all worth it?

Plus, a reflection on the significance of LGBT Pride in a scary political time for the community. 

What does it mean to lead a team in an anti-racist way?

The history. The party. The food. Black Texans school us on the holiday they created.

How did the schools in the John Jay building become divided in the first place?

Plus, the story of 91-year-old artist Faith Ringgold, as told by her daughter.

Two sports programs – rivals under a single roof – are set to merge. Students ask what it will take for the building to live up to its new motto: “We Are One.”

Plus, follow the season of a girl’s varsity volleyball team, and find one Brooklyn school building’s effort to bridge its stark racial divide. From WNYC’s new miniseries, Keeping Score.

After publishing 34 books, Alice Walker talks through her latest release, a collection of personal journals spanning four decades.

There are no “lone wolves” in the terrorist violence of white identity politics. So what’s that mean for white people who want to confront it?

An intergenerational meditation on Ntozake Shange’s iconic Broadway play, "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf."

His leaked opinion tells us more about a powerful minority’s view of the U.S. than it does about the Constitution or the history of abortion.

Plus, a follow up to our episode on names and identities: One trans woman’s story of finding her name, and fighting to have it respected.

We never resolved the core political debates that emerged from the Civil War. And they remain the fundamental  debates of this year’s elections. 

Asian American New Yorkers explain how Covid-era violence changed their lives, and what’s at stake for everybody when we fear each other. Then, rediscovering community through food.

A slap at the Oscars tarnished Will Smith’s legacy. What about him did Hollywood treasure? Is this institution just a screen for projecting our own social anxieties and cultural debate?