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UNDISTRACTED With Brittany Packnett Cunningham — 130 episodes

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The Best and Worst Case of What Happens Next, with Angela Rye

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How to be a Leader, with Dr. Shavon Arline-Bradley and Bishop Vashti McKenzie

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"I'm Not here to Bend the Knee," with Governor and First Lady Moore

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Time to Kiss Kumbaya Goodbye, with Brian Tyler Cohen

5

Nikole Hannah-Jones Explains It All: Reparations, Rage, and How we Have Hope

6

The Power of “I Deserve This,” with Jemele Hill

7

Juneteenth and the Debt We're Still Owed, with Adam Serwer

8

Serena’s Back, Slush Fund Is Dead and…They Tried to Ban Roots?

9

We Should All be Backtalkers, with Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw

10

Girl, AI Is Not Unstoppable

11

Don’t Mansplain to Us, with Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal

12

Have They Even Read the Constitution?, with Melissa Murray

13

Corporate America Is Not Your Homegirl, with Tiffany Cross

14

“It’s Worse Than We Know”: Maria Hinojosa on Cesar Chavez

15

How to Take Down the Creeps of Capitol Hill, with Mrs. Frazzled

16

The Manosphere Could Never, With Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach

17

Oh Hi, It's Been A Minute

18

"Guard Your Joy, Siblings," with The Machetes

19

“Women are the Secret Sauce”: Talking Activism, with Shannon Watts

20

“We are the Evidence” MLK, Inauguration Day and The Road Ahead, with The Group Chat

21

“If We Ever Felt Like Fighters, Now’s The Time to Prove It,” with Cori Bush

22

Does America Have a Man Problem? With Anand Giridharadas and Liz Plank

23

The Year of Our Power: The Group Chat and Rev. Neichelle Guidry Make Resolutions

24

“Staying Quiet is Not An Option”: Sitting Down with Women Who Have Accused Trump and Kennedy

25

“How Am I??”: Ilana Glazer Takes on Motherhood

26

“I Think the Best Advice Is Just to be Skeptical,” with Max Tani

27

“Are We the People We Said We’d Be?” UNDISTRACTED #100, with Alicia Garza

28

"Heartbreaking, Maddening and Ready to Fight”: Cecile Richards and Paola Ramos

29

“We Did Not Consent to Chaos”: The Group Chat Talks Election

30

We’re in Holy Sh*t Territory, with Sunny Hostin

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A Girl’s Girl Fights for Abortion, with Kaitlyn Joshua

32

Hip Hop's Promise and Pain, with Drew Dixon

33

Everybody Watches Women’s Sports, with Cari Champion

34

The Group Chat Decodes Your Week's News

35

Our Right to Party, with Rep. Ruwa Romman and Maurice Mitchell

36

"We Elect Partners, Not Saviors:" Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Brittney Cooper

37

Ava DuVernay Wants Us to Dig Deeper

38

We’re Baaaaaack

39

Exclusive: Vice President Kamala Harris On A Year Without Roe

40

“Every Hashtag is a Human Being”: Honoring the Five-Year Anniversary of #MeToo

41

The End of the World as We Know It? Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Rates our Climate Future

42

“You Can’t Win if You Don’t Start”: Rep. Cori Bush on Running for Office—and Making a Difference

43

Derecka Purnell On Living (and Loving) Outside the Police State

44

The Queen Died. Now What? Three Brilliant Women on Colonialism and the Future

45

The Hidden Latinx Stories We Don’t Hear, with Julissa Natzely Arce Raya

46

The Kids Are All Right. The Adults Are F***ing Up!

47

Will We Be Smarter About the Next Epidemic? Two Experts Break it Down

48

A Future Without Police? Andrea Ritchie on Crime and Abolition

49

“People’s Kids Are the Center of Their World”- Caitlin Dickerson on the Horrors of Family Separation

50

Beyoncé’s Renaissance, According to Four Brilliant Black Women

51

“The System Works For Those Who Occupy It”: Maria Teresa Kumar on Voting Rights

52

Phoebe Robinson is Writing Her Own Rules (on TV and in Life)

53

“Covering the End of the World”: A Reporter on Gun Violence

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Introducing History is US

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Tiffany Cross on Roe, Resistance and What Comes Next

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Michelle Colón is Living Through The Last Days of Legal Abortion in Mississippi

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The Roe v. Wade News—and Finding Hope

58

Having a Baby While Black: Martina Abrahams Ilunga and Gabrielle Horton Know *All* The Stories

59

You Can Be Successful Where You Are: Majora Carter on Reclaiming Communities

60

“God is Big Enough for Our Questions:” Candice Benbow on Faith, Feminism and Lipstick

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During a Dark Time, A Little Light with Bevy Smith

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“Tell the Truth to Set Us Free”: Kimberlé Crenshaw on White Supremacy, CRT and Lies

63

WTF, TEXAS?! Cisneros, Crockett and O’Rourke on The Madness (and Promise) of The Lone Star State

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What Happens Now? Gloria Steinem and Renee Bracey Sherman on the Future of Abortion

65

The Senator of TikTok: Morgan Harper’s Run for Office (and Our Hearts)

66

Motherhood, Love and the “Trayvon Generation,” with Elizabeth Alexander

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“I Want To Raise a Free Black Child”: Brittany Packnett Cunningham and Reginald Cunningham On Parenthood

68

“I’ve Been Proud So Many Times”: A Texas Family Fights the Anti-Trans Laws

69

"We See Who Pays the Price": Muzoon Almellehan on War and Refugees

70

“You Deserve to Be Safe”: Nicole Chung on Parenting in a Wave of Anti-AAPI Violence

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Kimberlé Crenshaw on the Origins of Critical Race Theory

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"Buckle Up": Sen. Elizabeth Warren Still Has a Plan for Change

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“I Don't Believe In The Guilt”: Real Climate Talk, with Mary Annaïse Heglar

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Anita Hill on The Supreme Court’s Future—and its Past

75

“We Are Here to Fight Disinformation”: Sara Lomax-Reese and Akoto Ofori-Atta Build the Future

76

Ai-jen Poo on Caregiving: “We Take for Granted That Women Will Just Figure It Out”

77

Jemele Hill and Cari Champion on Racism (and Liberation) in Sports

78

Dr. Uché Blackstock on Pandemic Fatigue—And the New COVID Normal

79

Elaine Welteroth on the Great Resignation and Rewriting Your Own Definition of Success

80

“This Big Old Lie”: Heather McGhee on the Real Cost of Racism

81

LaTosha Brown on our “Moment of Reckoning”

82

One Year Later: “The Next Coup is Already Happening”

83

Nikole Hannah-Jones on America’s “400-Year Racial Pandemic”

84

Beyond Roe: Gloria Steinem and Renee Bracey Sherman on How We Got Here and What Happens Next

85

From SCOTUS to White Womanhood: Dr. Brittney Cooper Decodes Our World

86

We’re Back! A Sneak Peek at Season Two

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PREVIEW! “BECAUSE OF ANITA,” WITH ANITA HILL, CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD AND MORE

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BONUS! YOUR UNDISTRACTED HIGHLIGHTS REEL

89

Tarana Burke on Her Powerful New Memoir—And The Future of #MeToo

90

Pleasure Activist adrienne maree brown On Conflict, Canceling, and Community

91

Jemele Hill On “The Cursed Olympics”—And Simone Biles Choosing Her Peace

92

The Billionaire Space Race and Patriarchy in Physics, With Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

93

Connie Walker On Covering the Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

94

Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw On the Truth About Critical Race Theory

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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Finally Fixing the Military’s Sexual Assault Problem

96

The “Grandmother of Juneteenth” on the Holiday’s Past, Present and Future

97

Lawyer Chase Strangio On “Genocidal” Anti-Trans Laws—And Resistance

98

Amani on Why This Moment “Feels Different” For Palestinians

99

‘Queen Sugar’ Author Natalie Baszile on the New Black Farming Revolution

100

Travon Free Wants To Flip The Script on Masculinity

101

Nikole Hannah-Jones Wants Us To Confront The Truth of Who We Are

102

Insecure’s Yvonne Orji On Black Joy… And Her “Homie” Jesus

103

Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson On The “Feminist Climate Renaissance”

104

Andra Day on the Tragedy and Triumph of Billie Holiday

105

Sophia Bush on Surviving “Relentless” Harassment in Hollywood

106

Alexis McGill Johnson on the “Dire” Landscape for Abortion Rights

107

Shannon Watts Believes We’re at a Tipping Point for Gun Reform

108

Comedian Amber Ruffin Wants to “De-Gaslight” America

109

Rep. Cori Bush Is What “Keeping It Real” Looks Like

110

Lisa Ling on Anti-Asian Violence—And the Rising Movement Against It

111

Padma Lakshmi on the New Food Revolution

112

“The Squad is Big, Y’all”: Rep. Ayanna Pressley on the Power of the People

113

What Would a Future Without Prisons Look Like?

114

Opal Tometi on the Righteous Rise of Black Lives Matter

115

Raquel Willis Believes in Black Trans Power

116

Want A Safer Internet? Listen to Black Women

117

A Historic Day… And Why The 'Nap Bishop' Believes Rest is Radical

118

Valerie Jarrett on Impeachment... And the Next 100 Days

119

America Ferrera Is Talking ‘Bout a Cultural Revolution

120

BONUS: What Just Happened?

121

Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drew Are Building Black Futures

122

Flattening the Curve of Inequality

123

Sue Bird Won't Shut Up and Dribble

124

Tracee Ellis Ross Is The Lead in Her Own Life

125

Nikki Giovanni Believes Your Dreams Are Worth It

126

Rebecca Traister Is Still Good and Mad

127

LaTosha Brown Is Betting On the South

128

Soledad O’Brien Is Calling It Like It Is

129

Cecile Richards Is Ready for the Uprising

130

Coming soon: UNDISTRACTED