Slate Race and Identity
The Slate Race and Identity feed features new episodes from a variety of shows in the Slate podcast network. From One Year, to What Next, to A Word...With Jason Johnson and more, you’ll get informative and thoughtful reporting and analysis on the many ways race and identity shape the world around us.
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A Word: Criminal Injustice
“You don’t have to be doing something wrong for something wrong to happen to you.”
29 min
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A Word: Run for the Border?
Many Black Americans now believe the “land of opportunity” is elsewhere.
22 min
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ICYMI: Is Nara Smith Actually a Tradwife?
The model-turned-influencer is turning the internet upside down.
39 min
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A Word: Love, Family, and Freedom’s Ultimate Price
An assassin ended Medgar Evers’ life. His widow Myrlie Evers-Williams still nurtures his dream.
25 min
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Care & Feeding: Does Identity Need To Be Taught?
Slate’s parenting podcast on nature and nurture.
26 min
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A Word: Black Country Renaissance
After Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ‘Em” tops charts, the spotlight shines on Black women in country music.
37 min
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Care & Feeding: Should I Allow Compliments Abou...
Slate’s parenting podcast on what’s on the outside.
18 min
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A Word: Freedom Fight Like a Woman
24 min
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Amicus: The IVF Decision We Should Have Seen Co...
You can draw a straight line from Jim Crow to Dobbs and the Alabama IVF decision
58 min
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A Word: Green Black Power
Climate change is already hurting Black communities. Can activists make it a political priority?
32 min
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Well, Now: Ending Racism in Healthcare
In her new book Legacy, Dr. Uché Blackstock honors her late mother while also tracing the history of racism in U.S. healthcare.
27 min
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A Word: Diversity in the Diaspora
More Afro-Latinos are rejecting stereotypes about their racial identity.
38 min
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What Next: Why a Hi-Tech Gun Safety Tool Isn’t ...
New technology, same problems.
20 min
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A Word: Ghost in the Medical Machine
Artificial Intelligence plays a growing role in health care. Is medical racism growing with it?
23 min
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A Word: True Crime in Black and White
What a decades-old murder and hoax tells us about race and policing today.
22 min
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Working: Malcolm X’s Story, Told Through Opera
42 min
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A Word: Revolutionary Recharge
Be a Revolution: fighting the good fight, with joy.
29 min
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What Next: Are Two States Still the Solution?
Both sides seem to agree on at least one point: the status quo is untenable.
26 min
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A Word: Fix Your CROWN
“CROWN” laws are supposed to stop discrimination over Black natural hairstyles. Why aren’t they working?
20 min
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Well, Now: Breaking Up With Diet Culture
Diet culture is all around us. We’ve got some practical ways to dismantle it.
29 min
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A Word: Send In the Clowns?
Black Republicans, white supremacy, and the politics of grift.
44 min
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What Next: And God Gave Us Trump
How white Evangelicals learned to stop worrying and love the Donald
19 min
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What Next: Is Israel Committing Genocide?
South Africa brings the war in Gaza before the International Court of Justice.
23 min
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A Word: Can He Get an Amen?
Is leaning on the Black church still a winning strategy for Democratic candidates?
23 min
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Outward: Raquel Willis is in Bloom
Jules Gill-Peterson interviews Raquel Willis about her new memoir The Risk It Takes to Bloom
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