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UNDISTRACTED With Brittany Packnett Cunningham — 123 episodes

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

2

We Should All be Backtalkers, with Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw

3

Girl, AI Is Not Unstoppable

4

Don’t Mansplain to Us, with Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal

5

Have They Even Read the Constitution?, with Melissa Murray

6

Corporate America Is Not Your Homegirl, with Tiffany Cross

7

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

8

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

9

The Manosphere Could Never, With Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach

10

Oh Hi, It's Been A Minute

11

"Guard Your Joy, Siblings," with The Machetes

12

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

13

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

14

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

15

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

16

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

17

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

18

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

19

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

20

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

21

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

22

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

23

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

24

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

25

Hip Hop's Promise and Pain, with Drew Dixon

26

Everybody Watches Women’s Sports, with Cari Champion

27

The Group Chat Decodes Your Week's News

28

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

29

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

30

Ava DuVernay Wants Us to Dig Deeper

31

We’re Baaaaaack

32

Exclusive: Vice President Kamala Harris On A Year Without Roe

33

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

34

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

35

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

36

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

37

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

38

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

39

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

40

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

41

A Future Without Police? Andrea Ritchie on Crime and Abolition

42

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

43

Beyoncé’s Renaissance, According to Four Brilliant Black Women

44

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

45

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

46

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

47

Introducing History is US

48

Tiffany Cross on Roe, Resistance and What Comes Next

49

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

50

The Roe v. Wade News—and Finding Hope

51

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

52

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

53

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

54

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

56

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

57

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

58

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

59

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

60

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

61

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

62

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

63

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

64

Kimberlé Crenshaw on the Origins of Critical Race Theory

65

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

66

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

67

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

68

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

69

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

70

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

71

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

72

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

73

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

74

LaTosha Brown on our “Moment of Reckoning”

75

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

76

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

77

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

78

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

79

We’re Back! A Sneak Peek at Season Two

80

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

81

BONUS! YOUR UNDISTRACTED HIGHLIGHTS REEL

82

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

83

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

84

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

85

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

86

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

87

Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw On the Truth About Critical Race Theory

88

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

89

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

90

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

91

Amani on Why This Moment “Feels Different” For Palestinians

92

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

93

Travon Free Wants To Flip The Script on Masculinity

94

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

95

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

96

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

97

Andra Day on the Tragedy and Triumph of Billie Holiday

98

Sophia Bush on Surviving “Relentless” Harassment in Hollywood

99

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

100

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

101

Comedian Amber Ruffin Wants to “De-Gaslight” America

102

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

103

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

104

Padma Lakshmi on the New Food Revolution

105

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

106

What Would a Future Without Prisons Look Like?

107

Opal Tometi on the Righteous Rise of Black Lives Matter

108

Raquel Willis Believes in Black Trans Power

109

Want A Safer Internet? Listen to Black Women

110

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

111

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

112

America Ferrera Is Talking ‘Bout a Cultural Revolution

113

BONUS: What Just Happened?

114

Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drew Are Building Black Futures

115

Flattening the Curve of Inequality

116

Sue Bird Won't Shut Up and Dribble

117

Tracee Ellis Ross Is The Lead in Her Own Life

118

Nikki Giovanni Believes Your Dreams Are Worth It

119

Rebecca Traister Is Still Good and Mad

120

LaTosha Brown Is Betting On the South

121

Soledad O’Brien Is Calling It Like It Is

122

Cecile Richards Is Ready for the Uprising

123

Coming soon: UNDISTRACTED