Activist adrienne maree brown on how we define pleasure, the wisdom of the body, and what it looks like when you have “enough.”
Today, an update on a story from the Kerning Cultures vault. The little-known, intertwining of history between Yemen and Vietnam, told through the lens of a single family. Then, a story of modern Ara...Show More
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another fantastic episode and story. i found myself frustrated and sad for continued unfortunate circumstances, and also very grateful to have heard faraj’s amazing perspective. what a kind, hardwork...Show More
A mesmerizing story about the wisdom and delight you can find — even in the midst of tragic loss — by seeing life and death through the eyes of a child. Storyteller Lucy Kalanithi is the widow of Paul...Show More
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i love paul’s book and am fully invested in this family!! what a beautiful story about what we can learn from a young person, told in such a way that weaves in little meditative moments. love this: ...Show More
Friendship is political - Aminatou Sow talks about making friends, thanking our ancestors and enjoying our wins.
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i'm a biggggg big fan of aminatou & ann's call your girlfriend show and their friendship. and a big fan of ai-jen & alicia. i have kept shine theory (i don't shine if you don't shine, it's all of us o...Show More
A conversation with actor John Cho about fatherhood, the complexities of fame and unpacking the stories our parents tell us.
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what a delight to get to hear 2 wonderful asian american journalists from the la times (read their work!!) have an amazing conversation with the one and only john cho. i’m so thankful to be able to he...Show More
Hideo Higashibaba was born into the Unification Church. Its members are commonly known as “Moonies” because of their devotion to the self-proclaimed messiah Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Hideo left the church ...Show More
Our guest is poet Ocean Vuong. His debut novel "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous" takes the form of a letter written to the narrator's mother. The details closely mirror Vuong's own life. Vuong was ...Show More
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what a beautiful, beautiful conversation between authors ocean vuong and tommy orange! i was really sad to have missed this live event, since everyone who went raved about it so hard. but now i get to...Show More
The host of NPR’s It’s Been A Minute opens up about his Pentecostal roots, the power of church music and what he's praying about in these challenging times. From KUER and PRX. Hosted by Lee Hale.
Welcome to the debut mini episode of Lady Don't Take No with Alicia Garza! Garza gets the party started right with friend and superhuman, Lateefah Simon.
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great quarantine listen! love alicia garza and all that she does, especially in these times when i sooo appreciate her connecting us with her network to share with us what’s helpful in trying times (...Show More
Krista interviewed the writer Ocean Vuong on March 8 in a joyful room full of podcast makers at On Air Fest in Brooklyn. None of us would have guessed that within a handful of days such an event would...Show More
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listening to an ocean vuong conversation is continually such a gift. especially with the amazing krista tippett. i listened to the long unedited version during my long walk outside today and it was pe...Show More
Note: This episode contains descriptions of suicide and sexual violence. Cheryl phones Amy Tan at her home overlooking Sausalito Bay in California. The two compare notes on family, grief and the lon...Show More
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cheryl strayed calls writers (elders) who offer up their great wisdom during this unprecedented pandemic times. this is a really beautiful, heartfelt conversation with amy tan. her work has been so im...Show More
Aminatou and Ann are the co-hosts of the podcast Call Your Girlfriend, co-authors of the book Big Friendship, and long-distance best friends. Their podcast made their friendship public, but behind the...Show More
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my favorite collab! can't stop recommending enough of aminatou and ann's conversations around female friendship (listen to their podcast, call your girlfriend) i espeically enjoy that in this episode,...Show More
The unofficial pastor of public radio talks with Lee Hale about her time as a chaplain for patients with Alzheimer's, why she’s a ‘little bit allergic’ to the language of belief and why mystery matter...Show More
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i am a big fan of the preach podcast! and krista tippett! do you see the trend here? i love finding crossovers and collaborations with my favorite storytellers, bc they have the best convos. i espec...Show More
A woman visits a faraway island to meet the last generation of Korea's mermaids. She comes away with an unexpected discovery about motherhood and about herself. Season 11 - Episode 8
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a perfect listen to reflect and appreciate all the moms out there (not specifically made for mother’s day but came to me in a timely manner!). this story follows a reporter who goes to korea to learn ...Show More
In the wake of World War II, the government of France commissioned its most prominent designers to create a collection of miniature fashion dolls. It might seem like an odd thing to fund, but the fant...Show More
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ecstatic to have avery’s articles of interest series about fashion back!! this first ep did not disappoint. i think of these as a loving trust dive into stories i’ve never heard about. i loved that th...Show More
On the last episode of Season 2, Josie and Clint discuss prison abolition with Mariame Kaba, one of the leading activists and organizers in the fight against America’s criminal legal system and a cont...Show More
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great time again to relisten to this amazing conversation about prison abolition from the leading organizer against our fucked up criminal legal system, mariame kaba, w/ josie duffy rice & clint smith...Show More
Organizing abolition amidst a pandemic and a moment of uprising. Support: patreon.com/therednation
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a must-listen for these times. a beautiful collaboration of AROC (arab resource and organizing center in sf) and the red nation. so much wisdom about the prison industrial complex (globally), racial ...Show More
The best laws and diversity training have not gotten us anywhere near where we want to go. Therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem is working with old wisdom and very new science about our bodi...Show More
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this episode....is amazing. resmaa is a black male therapist with a concentration of racialized and embodied trauma, for black people & indigenous people (which he refers to as people of culture), oth...Show More
Black people all across the US are receiving the world's weirdest form of reparations: Venmo payments from white people. Producer Emmanuel Dzotsi investigates. Additional Reading: Noni's petiti...Show More
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loved this episode exploring white people venmo-ing black people. it was super interesting to hear an uncomfortable conversation getting to the meat of it, asking a white dude "why did you do this" an...Show More
Alicia Garza is joined this week by activist and leading political strategist, Angela Rye.
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LOVED this convo with alicia garza and angela rye, both leading activists for black lives. their friendship really shines through in this conversation about how to navigate how to take action and orga...Show More
In this in-depth interview, Reverend angel Kyodo williams reflects on our widespread crisis of story, the failure of institutional religions to offer a new way forward, and her philosophy of Radical D...Show More
angel Kyodo williams is one of our wisest voices on social evolution and the spiritual aspect of social healing. She is an esteemed Zen priest and the second black woman recognized as a teacher in the...Show More
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i come back to this episode a lot for wisdom bc angel kyodo williams is amazing! still relevant today. on how our personal healing & liberation is crucial to overall societal transformation
In this conversation between Amita Swadhin and Caitlin Breedlove, we dive into choosing relationships and interdependence, building community and healing networks and the frequent failure of organizat...Show More
Greetings from Berkeley, Philadelphia, and Tacoma! This week, we chat about Viet Thanh Nguyen’s recent essay on Asian America, race, and class (Time); the abolition of whiteness advocated by Jay’s for...Show More
Hello and welcome to EPISODE 2 of Diversity Hire.Listen here, or on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.On today’s episode, Jay Caspian Kang (New York Times Magazine, New Yorker, Grantland) joins us to talk abo...Show More
A young man finds escape on the internet. He doesn’t realize that on the other side of the screen, a force is pulling him in.
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finally let myself get submerged into this rabbit hole and boy has it been a journey. i recommend diving deep into the whole series in a straight binge. as someone who grew up on the internet, and see...Show More
Co-host Sigal Samuel talks to Valerie Brown, a mindfulness teacher with a racial justice lens, about how to use Buddhist spiritual teachings not just to soothe us as individuals, but to tackle broader...Show More
Welcome to our first themed season, “With Friends Like These: Converts.” We’ve always been interested in why and how people change their minds about what they believe — mostly because it just doesn’t ...Show More
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really surprising love this podcast and the interviews ana marie cox conducts with amazing people. this is the start of a THEMED season called converts, all about why and how people come to believe wh...Show More
"A conversation with Alicia Kennedy. Alicia Kennedy wears many hats. A food and drink writer from Long Island—now based in San Juan, where she’s covering the local culinary scene—Alicia’s written for...Show More
From Human Doing to Human Being (2018-05-30) - Like Sisyphus eternally pushing the boulder up the hill, we can spend many moments busily trying to manage our life. This two-part talk explores how we c...Show More
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wowow this one is life-changing and incredible and prompted me to take many notes. i stumbled upon tara brach’s ‘radical acceptance’ book after a big heartbreak and although it’s not totally about re...Show More
This week, a special collaboration with one of our all time favourite podcasts: Radiolab. We produced the episode - Lebanon USA - last year, and Radiolab have taken that original story and elevated it...Show More
Host and co-creator of Radiolab, More Perfect, Dolly Parton’s America, and more, Jad Abumrad has inspired the sounds of thousands of podcasts and radio shows around the world (Kerning Cultures Network...Show More
This is a story of a road trip. After a particularly traumatic Valentine's Day, Fadi Boukaram was surfing google maps and noticed that there was a town called Lebanon... in Oregon. Being Lebanese hims...Show More
The story of an election in America where everything went wrong -- bribery, hacking, ballot-stuffing. And the 17 year old kid who tried to save the day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcast...Show More
The Netflix ta-dum sound has quickly become one of the most iconic sound logos of our generation. I bet you can hear it in your head right now. This sound is heard countless times, every single day, a...Show More
Writer and artist Akwaeke Emezi talks with me about their childhood in Nigeria, their brief stint in veterinary school, and how, these days, they've deemed themself "worthy of extravagance." Watch the...Show More
Rapper and activist Noname joins us for wide-ranging discussion on celebrity culture, social media, the Black Radical Tradition, and so much more. Check out her work: https://nonamebooks.com Support:...Show More
Hello! We’re very excited to have Pulitzer Prize winner and Macarthur Genius Grant recipient Viet Thanh Nguyen on the show. There was a lot to discuss and a lengthy conversation that I (Jay) found abs...Show More
Today, an update on a story from the Kerning Cultures vault. Elie was a journalist looking for her next story when she met Ziad at a party in Istanbul. Ziad was a Syrian refugee hoping to travel to E...Show More
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this one is a perfect listen for me. it’s a story of the ziad, journeying through many countries to seek asylum as a syrian refugee, and the unexpected falling in love with the journalist capturing hi...Show More
Dakota scholar Kim TallBear talks about the end of US empire and what that means for Indigenous people. She is a regular panelist for the podcast Media Indigena and writes for the Critical Polyamoris...Show More
Hello and welcome to Episode 8 of Diversity Hire. Our guest this week was E. Tammy Kim, a freelance reporter, and essayist. We invited Tammy to talk to us about a recent New Yorker article she wrote a...Show More
In 'Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents', Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson examines the laws and practices that created a bipolar caste system in the U.S. — and how the Nazis borro...Show More
In 'Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents', the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines the laws and practices that created a bipolar caste system in the U.S. — and how the Nazis borrowed from it.A...Show More
Tens of millions of people in the US are either out of a job or still working without meaningful protections, benefits, or wage increases. And if something goes wrong, workers mostly have to figure it...Show More
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highly recommend this 5 part series about exactly how corporations have increasingly prioritized the profits of shareholders while constantly cutting out workers’ benefits/protections/fair wages. it i...Show More
Only 1 in 10 workers in America are part of a union. And for many people, having one would make it a lot easier to advocate for better pay and protections during this pandemic. But worker power has sl...Show More
Einar Stangvik is a white-hat hacker — an internet security expert with an expertise in cracking the most secure and disturbing parts of the web. He discovers a troubling phenomenon online and joins f...Show More
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wow... i... am speechless by this whole (incredible!!) investigative reporting on child abuse materials on the dark web. overall i am so fully disturbed but also entirely fascinated.
For episode 132 of the Metta Hour Podcast, Sharon speaks Diego Perez, known more commonly as Yung Pueblo, for the Real Change Podcast Series. Diego is a meditator, writer, and speaker who is widely k...Show More
This prophetic conversation, which Rev. angel Kyodo williams had with Krista in 2018, is an invitation to imagine and nourish the transformative potential of this moment — toward human wholeness. Rev....Show More
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2 somali sisters, daughters of refugees, explore in this story-driven podcast that captures the stories of the humans impacted by war, and what gets carried and left from war. this episode is a heartf...Show More
Food equity starts in the supply chain. Diaspora Co. founder Sana Javeri Kadri is disconnecting Indian spices from the influence of Western colonization.
Who is Q-Anon? PJ tells the surprising origin story of the Q scam, and the man who now seems to be in control of it. Dale Beran (@DaleBeran) and Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd) Apply to the Reply A...Show More
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oh boy, what a juicy episode. PJ gets to bottom of WHO QAnon really is and shares a whole lot of well-reported context to all the madness
A Chinese idol had millions of fans who adored him for his kindness and good looks. Then, this February, one group of fans accused another of violating their image of him. What happens is a lesson in ...Show More
How does India's caste system play out in the hiring practices of Silicon Valley? And what happens when dominant caste people in the U.S. grapple with their own inherited privilege for the first time?
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an illuminating listen! i learned a lot through listening to the perspectives of those from oppressed castes especially within an american context with even more layers
Adapted from our award-winning multimedia story, “Language Keepers,” this six-part podcast series explores the struggle for Indigenous language survival in California. Two centuries ago, as many as ni...Show More
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incredibly important 6-part series (audio & film!!) follows four Indigenous communities in present day CA who are revitalizing their languages and cultures. critical listen about the struggle of langu...Show More
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listened before the quarantine but will definitely re-listen to this again soon. i appreciated jocelyn's work through hurry slow before but i have a new level of appreciating her wisdom, inquiry, and ...Show More