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: Courting a Voting Rights Disaster
Drawing racist voting maps is illegal. But how do you prove it?
24 min
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Amicus: Justice Samuel Alito Got Out Of Bed on...
SCOTUS turned into a trial court this week as conservatives sought to refute evidence of a racial gerrymander in South Carolina
46 min
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A Word: Cruel and Usual Punishment
Is better data the way to make American prisons humane?
25 min
154
The Waves: The Case For Taking A Sabbatical
Because sometimes the grind demands a hard reset.
36 min
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Hear Me Out: Columbus Day Is Worth Celebrating
It’s an important date in history — whatever you choose to call it.
35 min
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A Word: Black Grief, White Grievance
Why white feelings often seem to matter more than Black lives.
24 min
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One Year: 1955 - The Hiroshima Maidens
A decade after the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb, 25 Japanese women put their lives in the hands of American surgeons.
50 min
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A Word: Talk That Talk
Black culture shapes the national conversation, even among those who hate it.
32 min
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The Waves: The Afghan Women Left Behind - Gende...
What one family’s experience trying to get from Afghanistan to America says about the nation’s gender politics.
45 min
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What Next: Can Marriage Fix America?
Why is this institution being touted as an economic cure-all?
20 min
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Transracial Adoption Is Traumatic
Adoptive parents aren't saviors, and kids are often suffering.
38 min
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Gabfest Reads: Zadie Smith Knows You're a Fraud
Zadie Smith’s new book The Fraud goes deep into a 19th century criminal trial whose politics speak to modern times.
27 min
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A Word: School of Destruction
How one southern university’s history is a bitter lesson in race and power.
25 min
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The Waves: Incompetent Cervix - The Misogynist ...
Many names in the female reproductive system have roots in misogyny and racism.
40 min
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Amicus: The Supreme Court We Deserve?
Award-winning documentarian and lawyer Dawn Porter grapples with the Supreme Court’s path to this perilous moment in “Deadlocked”
52 min
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A Word: Wrong from the Beginning
Writer Michael Harriot says white-washing Black history is a desperate effort that’s bound to fail.
31 min
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What Next: The Case Against Harm Reduction
A safe consumption site is at odds with area homeowners’ vision for the neighborhood.
28 min
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A Word: Black Toy Joy
How a pioneering rapper made toys his new mission.
24 min
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Dear Prudence: My Sister Is Lying to My Nephews...
They believe their biological father is dead—but he's very much alive.
40 min
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The Waves: The Bama Rush to Trad Wife Pipeline
Bama Rush Tok has blow up, but there’s something very familiar about these girls…and what they’re promoting.
38 min
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A Word: After Jacksonville, Is Antifa the Answer?
Activist: Fascist violence calls for full resistance
30 min
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One Year: 1955 - The Team Nobody Would Play
In 1955, a team of Black Little Leaguers battled the white establishment in the Deep South.
53 min
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A Word: Democracy Dies in Dixie?
Even Black candidates who win often fight to serve.
20 min
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What Next: Why The Blind Side's Narrative Fell ...
Inside the gap between reality and the “feel-good” film.
23 min
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Slate Money: Criminals Series - Looting, Outfox...
This one goes out to anyone who has tried to help a prince get his money
43 min