In this episode, I talk to Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College, about the history of Black Abolition and the role political violence can play in forcing social change. 

I discuss how the concept of "child endangerment" has been used by the government to police and incarcerate vulnerable black and brown women. 

In a raw and occasionally funny episode, I attempt to capture what it was like to be a Wellesley College student in the era of coronavirus. 

Experience a week in politics with me, from the South Carolina primary to Super Tuesday! 

I discuss how biometric technologies are being used by states as a method of social control. 

I discuss the racialization of Muslims post 9/11 and its connection to the American surveillance state

I trace the history of abortion in America and discuss the way federalism makes way for restrictive regulations on abortion. 

I discuss Asian American voting patterns and why they matter. 

I discuss the troubling intersection between science and the detention of Uighurs, a primarily Muslim ethnic minority, in China.

In which I talk about racial discrimination in the housing market and how it had disenfranchised African Americans for generations.