All Episodes

Khalisa Rae Thompson - Writer and Poet, Co-Founder and Co-Director of Griot & Grey Owl Black Southern Writers Conference

Robert J. Patterson - Department of Black Studies, Georgetown University

Shylah Hamilton-Touré - Program in Critical Ethnic Studies, California College of the Arts

W. Lawrence Hogue - Department of English, University of Houston

Laurian Bowles - Department of Anthropology, Davidson College

Amanda Boston - Department of Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh

Skye Jackson - Writer and Poet

Michele Prettyman - Department of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University

Andrea J. Queeley - Departments of Anthropology and Africa and African Diaspora Studies, Florida International University

Ronald Angelo Johnson - Department of History, Baylor University

Bettina Judd - Department of African American Studies, Emory University

Christel N. Temple - Department of Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh

Kevin Rigby, Jr. - Department of African American Studies, University of Illinois

Ifetayo Flannery - Department of Africology and African American Studies, Temple University

Tanisha M. Jackson - Department of African American Studies, Syracuse University

Robert Robinson - Department of Africana Studies, John Jay College

Melanie Holmes - Department of African American Studies, University of South Carolina

Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez - Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies and Department of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, Hunter College

Desiree Cooper - Writer and Journalist

Michelle B. Taylor - Educator, Author, Advocate

Joanna Cardenas - Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Justin Leroy - Department of History, Duke University

Kaiama Glover - Department of Black Studies, Yale University

Kinitra Brooks - Department of English, Michigan State University

andré carrington - Department of English, University of California, Riverside

Kyra Gaunt - Department of Music and Theater, State University of New York, Albany

LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant - Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Crystal Feimster - Department of Black Studies, Yale University

Maya Doig-Acuña - Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Willie J. Wright - Institute of Urban and Regional Research and Planning, University of Rio de Janeiro

Mark Sanders - Departments of Africana Studies and English, University of Notre Dame

Jocelyn Brown - Department of African American Studies, Ohio University

Drew D. Brown - Departments of African American Studies and Sociology, University of Florida

Nneka Dennie - Department of History, Washington and Lee University

Andrea Mays - Department of Africana Studies, University of New Mexico

Tikia Hamilton - Department of History, Loyola University of Chicago

Sam Tecle - Department of Sociology, Toronto Metropolitan University

John E. Drabinski - Department of Africana Studies, University of Maryland (book podcast collaboration)

Bryce Henson - Department of Communication and Journalism, Texas A&M University

RA Judy - Department of English, University of Pittsburgh

Justene H. Edwards - Department of History, University of Virginia

Tyler D. Parry - Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Kathryn Sophia Belle - Author, Speaker, and Founder of La Belle Vie Academy

Vanessa K. Valdés - Editor, CENTRO Press

Bianca Beauchemin - Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, York University

Marlee Bunch - Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute, Rutgers University

Ashon Crawley - Departments of Religious Studies and African American Studies, University of Virginia

Tashal Brown - College of Education, University of Rhode Island

Hanna Garth - Department of Anthropology, Princeton University

Kimberly Blockett - Department of Africana Studies, University of Delaware

Antoine Williams - School of Art and Art History, University of Florida

Angela Simms - Departments of Sociology and Urban Studies, Barnard College and Columbia University

Robert Bland - Department of History and Africana Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Kimberly Thomas McNair - Department of African and African American Studies, Stanford University

Ronald Zeigler - Director, Nyumburu Cultural Center, University of Maryland

Deborah Gray White - Department of History, Rutgers University

Paul C. Taylor - Department of Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles

Joanna Davis-McElligatt - Department of English, University of North Texas

Robin D. G. Kelley - Department of African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Clarissa Myrick-Harris White - Department of Africana Studies, Morehouse College

Nathan Dize - Department of French, Washington University

Robin Brooks - Department of English, University of Pittsburgh

Annette Joseph-Gabriel - Department of Romance Languages, Duke University

Derek Handley - Department of English, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Alisha Gaines - Department of African American and African Studies, University of Virginia

Terence Keel - Department of African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Benjamin Talton - Department of History, Howard University

Mali Collins - Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies, American University

Theodore A. Harris - Writer and Artist

Michael Simanga - Department of Africana Studies, Morehouse College

Laylah Amatullah Barrayn - Department of Arts, Culture, and Media, Rutgers University, Newark

Rahman A. Culver - Educator and Activist

Marion Orr - Department of Political Science, Brown University

Irvin Hunt - Departments of English and African American Studies, University of Illinois

Jeanine Staples-Dixon - College of Education and Department of African American Studies, Penn State University

Allison A. Waite - Artist and Filmmaker

Joyce E. King - Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair for Urban Teaching, Learning and Leadership, Africana Studies, and Educational Policy Studies, Georgia State University

Ashley Newby, Brie Gorrell, Olivia Blucker, John E. Drabinski - Podcast Editorial Collective, University of Maryland

Jaz Riley - Department of African American Studies, University of Illinois

Carole Boyce-Davies - Department of English, Howard University

Christopher Tounsel - Department of History, University of Washington

Nicole Telfer - Department of Psychology, Notre Dame of Maryland University

Rebecca Wanzo - Departments of African and African American Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Washington University

Shanice Robinson-Blacknell - Department of Africana Studies, San Francisco State University

Tamara T. Butler - Executive Director, Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston

Chelsea Mikael Frazier - Department of English, Cornell University

Sara E. Johnson - Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego

Takiyah Harper-Shipman - Department of Africana Studies, Davidson College

Michael Gillespie - Department of Cinema Studies, New York University

Jarvis McInnis - Department of English, Duke University

Janet Helms - Professor Emeritus, Department of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology, Boston College

Christina Carney - Department of Black Studies, University of Missouri

Ronald J. Stephens - Program in African American Studies, Purdue University

Mia Bay - Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

Michael Harriot - Writer and Critic

Sabrina Evans - Department of Literature and Writing, Howard University

Jona Alexander - Poet and Filmmaker

Johnathan White - Department of History, Penn State University, Greater Allegheny

Watufani Poe - Department of Communication, Tulane University

Davarian Baldwin - Department of American Studies, Trinity College

Natasha Henry-Dixon - Department of History, York University

Tara T. Green - Department of African American Studies, University of Houston

Tony Louis - Educator and Curriculum Designer

Rosa Clemente - Scholar and Activist, Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Anna Hinton - Department of English, University of North Texas

Yasmine Grier - Department of Black Studies, Northwestern University

Leonard McKinnis - Departments of Religion and African American Studies, University of Illinois

Lisa Ze Winters - Department of African American Studies, Wayne State University

Mazi Mutafa - Executive Director and Co-Founder, Words, Beats, & Life

Cassie Osei - Department of History, Bucknell University

Crystal Eddins - Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh

Nick Mitchell - Department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

Dexter Blackman - Department of History, Geography, and Museum Studies, Morgan State University

Wendell H. Marsh - Department of Africana Studies, Rutgers University, Newark

Keith Holmes - Writer and Researcher

Katherine Ponds - Department of African American and American Studies, Yale University

Jeanelle Hope - Department of African American Studies, Prairie View A&M University

Therí Pickens - Departments of English and Africana Studies, Bates College

Amiri Mahnzili - Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside

Tiffany E. Barber - Department of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles

Seulghee Lee - Departments of English and African American Studies, University of South Carolina

Jimmy Butts - Department of History, Trinity University

J.T. Roane - Department of Geography, Rutgers University

Aria Halliday - Departments of Gender and Women's Studies and African American and Africana Studies, University of Kentucky

Wylin Wilson - Divinity School, Duke University

Tracie Canada - Departments of Cultural Anthropology and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Duke University

Judith Weisenfeld - Department of Religion, Princeton University

Patrice D. Douglass - Department of Gender and Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Brian Kwoba - Department of History, University of Memphis

Sheena C. Howard - Department of Communication and Journalism, Rider University

Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman - Department of English, Coppin State University

Robin Bernstein - Departments of History and African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Mari Crabtree - African American Studies and History, Emerson College

Carleen Carey - Akoma Leadership Consulting and University of Maryland, Global Campus

Darius Spearman - Program in Black Studies, San Diego City College

Leroy F. Moore, Jr. - Krip-Hop Institute and Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles

Lee Hawkins - Author and Journalist

Meredith D. Clark - Hussman School of Journalism, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Katherine McKittrick - Department of Gender Studies and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies, Queen's University

Valerie Grim - African American and African Diaspora Studies, Indiana University

Kaila Story - Departments of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Pan-African Studies, University of Louisville

Tamara J. Walker - Department of Africana Studies, Barnard College

Taelore Marsh, Irma McClaurin Black Feminist Archives Archivist, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Fanon Che Wilkins - Department of History, Pasadena City College

Johanna F. Almiron - Scholar and Critic

Bonnie Thornton Dill - Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Maryland

Eola Lewis Dance and Jennie K. Williams - Kinfolkology Project, Howard University and University of Virginia

André Brock, Jr. - School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology

Stephanie Shonekan - Dean of Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland

Kojo Damptey - Musician and School of Social Work, McMaster University

Corey D.B. Walker - Dean of the School of Divinity, Wake Forest University

Sharon Harley - Department of African American and Africana Studies, University of Maryland

Paul Joseph López Oro - Program in Africana Studies, Bryn Mawr College

Tahirah Akbar-Williams - Research Librarian, University of Maryland

M. Keith Claybrook - Department of Africana Studies, California State University, Long Beach

Theodore R. Foster III - Department of History, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

Jessica A. Newby - Department of History, Johns Hopkins University

M. Shadee Malaklou - Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Director of The bell hooks Center, Berea College

Ula Taylor - Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Matthew Simmons - Program in African American Studies, University of Alabama, Birmingham

Blair LM Kelley - Department of American Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Alexis Pauline Gumbs - Poet, Scholar, and Troublemaker, Durham, North Carolina

Kelli Morgan - Founding Executive Director, Black Artists Archive

Charles Athanasopoulos - Department of African American and African Studies, Ohio State University

Marisa Parham - Department of English, University of Maryland

Kesewa John - Department of History, Goldsmiths University

Serie McDougal - Department of Pan-African Studies, California State University, Los Angeles

Marlene Daut - Departments of French and African American Studies, Yale University

Charlene Carruthers - Department of Black Studies, Northwestern University

Michele Reid-Vazquez - Department of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies, Bowdoin College

Courtney R. Baker - Department of English, University of California, Riverside

Alexander Weheliye - Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University

LaTaSha Levy - Department of Afro-American Studies, Howard University

Stacie McCormick - Department of English, Texas Christian University

Derrick White - Department of African American and African Studies, University of Kentucky

Jeffrey Ogbar - Department of History, University of Connecticut

Ashley Smith-Purviance - Department of African American and African Studies, Ohio State University

Brie Gorrell, Ashley Newby, and John E. Drabinski - Departments of Africana Studies and English, University of Maryland

Sharon P. Holland - Department of American Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Marisa Fuentes - Department of History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University

Fred Moten - Department of Performance Studies, New York University

Abdul Alkalimat - Department of African American Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Martha S. Jones - Department of History, Johns Hopkins University

Zebulon Miletsky - Department of Africana Studies, Stony Brook University

Alex Lubin - Department of African American Studies, Penn State University

Casey Wong - Department of Educational Policy Studies, Georgia State University

Elizabeth Hamilton - Art History and African American Studies, Fort Valley State University

Grant Farred - Department of Africana Studies, Cornell University

Kellie Carter Jackson - Department of Africana Studies, Wellesley College

Noliwe Rooks - Department of Africana Studies, Brown University

Anthony Smith and Geo Maher - W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction

Mary Phillips - Department of African American Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Jared Ball - Program in African American and African Diaspora Studies, Morgan State University

Romaine McNeil, Tatiana Esh, Sha-Shonna Rogers, Jessica Newby, and Julia Mallory - Slavery in Motion Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art

Gabrielle Williams - Department of Literary Studies, New School for Social Research

Shingi Mavima - Department of History, University of Toledo

Khalil Saucier - Department of Critical Black Studies, Bucknell University

Chevy Eugene - Department of Political Science, Dalhousie University

Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr. - Department of Black Studies, University of Rochester

Layla Brown - Departments of Anthropology and Sociology and Africana Studies, Northeastern University

Nwando Achebe - Department of History, Michigan State University

Sarah Jane Cervenak - Departments of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and African American and African Diaspora Studies, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Sonja Lanehart - Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona

Walter Greason - Department of History, Macalester College

Saida Grundy - Departments of Sociology and African American and Black Diaspora Studies, Boston University

Vincent Brown - Departments of History and African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Reighan Gillam - Department of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies, Dartmouth College

Ashley Newby and John E. Drabinski - Department of African American and Africana Studies, University of Maryland

Ed Pavlić - Department of English and African American Studies, University of Georgia

Ozay Moore - Executive Director, All of the Above Hip Hop Academy

Reiland Rabaka - Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder

Gerald Horne - Department of History, University of Houston

Zalika U. Ibaorimi - Department of African American and African Studies, Ohio State University

Stephanie Sparling Williams - Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art at the Brooklyn Museum

Aisha Durham - Department of Communication, University of South Florida

Robin Means Coleman - Department of Media Studies and African American and African Studies, University of Virginia

Jervette R. Ward - Department of Black Studies, City College of New York

Rita Kiki Edozie - Professor of Global Governance, University of Massachusetts-Boston

Juanita Stephen - Department of Interdisciplinary and Critical Studies, University of Windsor

Philip V. McHarris - Frederick Douglass Institute and Department of Black Studies, University of Rochester

Dawn-Elissa Fischer - Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State University

Neil Roberts - Department of Africana Studies, Williams College

Donelle Boose - Department of History and African American Studies Program, Randolph-Macon College

Ashanté Reese - Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas, Austin

Kameelah Martin - Department of African American Studies, College of Charleston

Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus - Department of English, University of Southern California

Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. - Department of African American Studies, Princeton University

Jasmine Lee - Associate Vice President for Community and Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Biko Caruthers - Department of English, New York University

Willie Mack - Department of Black Studies, University of Missouri

Sonya Donaldson - Department of African American Studies, Colby College

Chad L. Williams - Department of African and African American Studies, Brandeis University

Courtney Terry - Department of Black Studies, Portland State University

Elena Guzman - Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Indiana University

Christin Washington - Department of American Studies, University of Maryland

Walidah Imarisha - Department of Black Studies, Portland State University

Qiana Whitted - Department of English and African American Studies Program, University of South Carolina

LaToya Brackett - Department of African American Studies, University of Puget Sound

Christina Knight - Department of Art History, Rutgers University

Minkah Makalani - Department of History and Center for Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Mark Anthony Neal - Department of African and African American Studies, Duke University

Nathaniel Norment - Department of English, Morehouse College

Wendyliz Martinez - ACLS Leading Edge Fellow, New Jersey Institute for Social Justice

Brenda E. Stevenson - Department of African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

J. Kameron Carter - Department of African American Studies, University of California, Irvine

David Kalonji Walton - Department of History and African American Studies, Lincoln University

Austin Lee - Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, Boston University

Courtney Joseph - Department of History and African American Studies, Lake Forest College

Sophia Jahadhmy and Sofia Meadows-Muriel - Department of Africana Studies, Cornell University

Kyle T. Mays - Department of African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Erika Denise Edwards - Department of History, University of Texas at El Paso

Regina Bradley - Department of English, Kennesaw State University

Rinaldo Walcott - Department of Africana and American Studies, University of Buffalo

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor - Department of African American Studies, Princeton University

David Ikard - Department of African American and Diaspora Studies, Vanderbilt University

Charisse Burden-Stelly - Department of African American Studies, Wayne State University

Scot Brown - Department of African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Shaida Akbarian - Department of Comparative Studies, Ohio State University

David Green - Department of English, Howard University

Stephanie Jones and Makeba Lavan - Department of African Diaspora Studies, Grinnell College

J. Marlena Edwards - Department of African American Studies, Penn State University

Michael E. Sawyer - Department of English, University of Pittsburgh

Dominick Quinney - Department of Ethnic Studies, Albion College

John Murillo III - Department of African American Studies, University of California, Irvine

Deirdre Cooper Owens - Department of History and Africana Studies Institute, University of Connecticut

Martha Biondi - Department of Black Studies, Northwestern University

Ruth Nicole Brown, Suban Nur Cooley, LeConté Dill, Yvonne Morris - Department of African and African American Studies, Michigan State University

Austin Jackson - Non-Fiction Writing in the Department of English, Brown University

Mary Hicks - Department of History, University of Chicago

Utz McKnight - Department of Gender and Race Studies, University of Alabama

Naila Ansari, John Torrey, and Marcus Watson - Department of Africana Studies, Buffalo State University

Jessica Marie Johnson - Department of History, Johns Hopkins University

Jakeya Caruthers - Departments of English and Africana Studies, Drexel University

Huey Hewitt - Department of African American Studies, Harvard University

Cona Marshall - Department of Religion and Classics, University of Rochester

Charles McKinney - Department of Africana Studies, Rhodes College

Ashley Newby and John E. Drabinski - Department of African American and Africana Studies, University of Maryland