Black Women’s History of America, Kickstarter United, Gothamist, Women Running for Office, George Takei

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Feb 20, 2020

Authors Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross join us to discuss their new book, A Black Women’s History of the United States.

Vice and Motherboard staff writer Lauren Kaori Gurley joins us to discuss Kickstarter employees' groundbreaking vote to unionize and labor issues in the tech industry.

Editors and writers from Gothamist's team join us to explain what stories they’ve been following.

Kate Black, policy adviser, former chief of staff and vice president of research at EMILY’s List, and co-author of Represent: The Woman’s Guide to Running for Office and Changing the World, joins us to talk about women running for office and take listeners' calls. This is part of our series “Keepin' It 100,” which celebrates 100 years of women's suffrage.

[REBROADCAST] Actor and activist George Takei joins us to discuss his new graphic memoir, They Called Us Enemy. The book chronicles Takei's time in American internment camps during World War II.

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