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Some of My Best Friends Are

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Some of My Best Friends Are is a society podcast hosted by Pushkin Industries. It has 54 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.

Some of My Best Friends Are… is a podcast hosted by Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Ben Austen, two best friends who grew up together on the South Side of Chicago in the 1980s. Today a Harvard professor and an award-winning journalist, Khalil and Ben still go to each other to talk about their experiences with the absurdities and intricacies of race in America. In Some of My Best Friends Are..., they invite listeners into their unfiltered conversations about growing up together in a deeply-divided country, and navigating that divide as it exists today.

society ·en-US ·54 episodes

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Richard Pryor: The Truth‑Teller Who Changed Comedy Forever | From Big Lives

2

Thank You For Being Some of Our Best Friends

3

Samantha Irby is Quietly Hostile & Raucously Funny

4

The End of Affirmative Action

5

Fantastic Future: Reimagining the American City

6

From The Last Archive: Acting Out

7

America’s Poverty is by Design

8

Ben and Khalil Go South

9

The FBI’s War on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

10

Immigrants Aren't the Problem

11

Are We in a Civil War?

12

To the Hip Hop You Don’t Stop with Jelani Cobb

13

Ending the Cycle of Police Violence with Keith Ellison

14

Truth and Reconciliation: A Lesson from South Africa

15

Why Can't We Be Friends?

16

What’s Wrong with ‘You People’?

17

Taking a Knee with Malcolm Gladwell

18

From Started From the Bottom: How Charlamagne Turned Failure Into Success

19

Can Multiracial Adoption End Racism?

20

The Jeffersons vs. Sanford & Son

21

Why We Love and Hate Hollywood

22

How to Write the Past & Future with Clint Smith

23

Kamala Harris for President?

24

Florida Man Attacks ‘Woke’ Curriculum

25

Is a New Rainbow Coalition of Voters Possible?

26

We Know How to Solve Homelessness. We Just Need to Do It.

27

Eve L. Ewing Into the Multiverse

28

The New Jane Crow

29

“White Youth Must Choose Sides Now”

30

Introducing Brown Enough

31

From Future Hindsight: Strategic Racism is a Divide and Conquer Scam with Ian Haney López

32

Filmed On Location: What TV Tells Us About Who We Are

33

Fighting For Voting Rights with Eric Holder

34

"F*** Him, But F*** Jail": The Power of Restorative Justice

35

“Everything Dope Comes from Chicago”

36

How Textbooks Made America Not So Great

37

Brown Enough: Embracing The Middle Space

38

The Boys Are Back in Town: Live from Chicago

39

We Can’t Friend Our Way out of White Supremacy

40

Some of My Best Friends Are... Back!

41

The Good, The Bad and The Funny

42

Being Jewish with Sascha Penn

43

Crime, Fear and Alternatives to Policing

44

Unpacking Our Identities with Jay Caspian Kang

45

Fighting Inequities Through Art

46

Black Martha’s Vineyard

47

Introducing: Some of My Other Best Friends with Jacqueline Stewart

48

How The Obamas Talk About Race

49

Tennis Lessons

50

Critical Race Theory in the Classroom

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