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Some of My Best Friends Are — 54 episodes

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

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Thank You For Being Some of Our Best Friends

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Samantha Irby is Quietly Hostile & Raucously Funny

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The End of Affirmative Action

5

Fantastic Future: Reimagining the American City

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From The Last Archive: Acting Out

7

America’s Poverty is by Design

8

Ben and Khalil Go South

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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

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Why Can't We Be Friends?

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What’s Wrong with ‘You People’?

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Taking a Knee with Malcolm Gladwell

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

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Can Multiracial Adoption End Racism?

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The Jeffersons vs. Sanford & Son

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Why We Love and Hate Hollywood

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How to Write the Past & Future with Clint Smith

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Kamala Harris for President?

24

Florida Man Attacks ‘Woke’ Curriculum

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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

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The New Jane Crow

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“White Youth Must Choose Sides Now”

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Introducing Brown Enough

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

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

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Fighting For Voting Rights with Eric Holder

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

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35

“Everything Dope Comes from Chicago”

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36

How Textbooks Made America Not So Great

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Brown Enough: Embracing The Middle Space

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The Boys Are Back in Town: Live from Chicago

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We Can’t Friend Our Way out of White Supremacy

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Some of My Best Friends Are... Back!

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The Good, The Bad and The Funny

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Being Jewish with Sascha Penn

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Crime, Fear and Alternatives to Policing

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Unpacking Our Identities with Jay Caspian Kang

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45

Fighting Inequities Through Art

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46

Black Martha’s Vineyard

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Introducing: Some of My Other Best Friends with Jacqueline Stewart

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48

How The Obamas Talk About Race

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49

Tennis Lessons

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Critical Race Theory in the Classroom

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51

Another Candyman Movie

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European Prisons vs. American Prisons

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Interracial Buddies, Interracial Films

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Introducing: Some of My Best Friends Are