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Slate Race and Identity
The Slate Race and Identity feed features new episodes from a variety of shows in the Slate podcast network. From One Year, to What Next, to A Word...With Jason Johnson and more, you’ll get informative and thoughtful reporting and analysis on the many ways race and identity shape the world around us...
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ICYMI | Podcaster Theo Von Is A Manosphere Mystery
On today’s episode, hosts Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay are joined by culture writer Aja Romano to try to make sense of Theo Von. Von was one of the po...
What Next | How the Supreme Court Legalized Racial Profiling
How a Supreme Court decision from the shadow docket opens the door to racial profiling, creates a nightmare for millions of Latino Americans, and drai...
ICYMI | Kendra Fell In Love With Her Psychiatrist—Then She Met TikTok
On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by senior supervising producer Daisy Rosario to talk about Kendra, the woman whose 25-part TikTok seri...
ICYMI | Viral Debates: Crossing the Aisle or Clickbait?
On today’s episode, hosts Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay are joined by Slate staff writer Aymann Ismail to discuss the controversial YouTube channel, Ju...
What Next | George Floyd Square, Five Years Later
Five years after George Floyd’s murder sparked nationwide protests, the legacy of that movement is still being written in Minneapolis and America writ...
What Next | Legally Dead—And Pregnant
Adriana Smith was nine weeks pregnant when she was declared brain dead in February—far enough along that her fetus showed cardiac activity. The hospi...
What Next | Is Immigration Still Trump’s Strongest Issue?
As Donald Trump strives to deliver on his harsh immigration enforcement campaign promises, the president’s approval rating on the issue has dropped. B...
What Next | Free Speech? Not If You’re A Foreign Student.
As video of federal agents stopping Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk on the street and taking her away to be detained circulated on social media, people k...
Supercommunicators | 3. How to Have the Hardest Conversations
The final installment of our series explores the conversations that most of us dread, like frank discussions of our differences or a negative performa...
What Next | Who Will Mourn DEI?
The Trump administration’s fight against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs is underway, and it’s proving to be even broader and further-r...
Care & Feeding Encore | Parenting Fearlessly, Onstage and Off
On this episode: Lucy sits down with actress and author Mandy Gonzalez for a wide-ranging conversation about parenting, building a creative mom group,...
Care & Feeding | Parenting in an Interfaith World
On this episode: it’s the day after Christmas and the first day of Hanukkah — so we thought there would be no better time than now to sit down to talk...
Gabfest Reads: The Life and Legacy of John Lewis
Slate Political Gabfest host David Plotz talks with author David Greenberg about his new book, John Lewis: A Life. They discuss how Lewis went from ma...
What Next | How Shaboozey Broke the Mold
After a tepid embrace of Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter and a back-and-forth over Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” country music fans are all in on Shaboozey’s “...
A Word | Flash Black
All good things must come to an end. For now. After close to four years at Slate, A Word will be moving on. For today’s episode of A Word, Jason Johns...
A Word | Good to Go-Go
Many of the American musical genres that began in the Black community get taken over—artistically, financially, or both—by white Americans. Go-go, whi...
A Word: Trump’s Team America: The Sequel
On today’s episode of A Word, Jason Johnson is joined by Capital B reporter, Brandon Tensley to discuss Trump’s cabinet picks, and their potential imp...
A Word | A Mother of a Crisis
A sizable number of pregnancies end in a loss, whether to miscarriage, still-birth or abortion. But until very recently, discussions of these losses w...
What Next | Mass Deportation How?
On the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised to deport millions of “illegal immigrants.” As he prepares to return to the White House, it’s time to fig...
A Word: The (Small) Winners’ Circle
Democrats were shut out of power across the board in the House, Senate and the presidency. But for African American voters, new leaders may be emergin...
Is There Hope After Kamala Harris?
In the wake of Vice President Kamala Harris’s decisive loss left Democrats despondent, and locked in a cycle of finger-pointing. On today’s episode of...
Political Gabfest: Floating Island of Garbage
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the final week of the presidential campaign; the threats to election integrity; and...
A Word: Invisible Men
As the race for the White House remains deadlocked, there have been growing Democratic concerns about whether Black male voters are solid in their sup...
A Word: Snitch Nation
While conservatives win elections, the popularity of their policies on abortion access, LGBTQ rights, and racial equity remains low in many parts of t...
Political Gabfest: 15 Percent of Black Voters Support Trump
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Kamala Harris’s voter outreach to black and Hispanic men; the close races for Republ...
What Next: Kamala’s Bid for Black Men’s Votes
Though Black voters remain a dependable bloc for the Democrats, the Trump campaign has been attempting to make in-roads with Black men. Can Kamala Har...
A Word: WNBA Finals: Shooting Beyond the Stars
The New York Liberty face the Minnesota Lynx for the championship in what has been a remarkable year for the WNBA. Attendance, attention and viewershi...
What Next: Diddy Was Indicted. Conspiracies Ran Wild.
The accusations against Sean “Diddy” Combs have grown in both number and grimness. Is this the music industry’s moment of reckoning?
Gue...
What Next: October 7th, One Year Later
A year after the initial Hamas attack on Israel, tens of thousands are dead, bombs are still falling, a regional war is expanding, and there’s no end...
A Word: Yvette Nicole Brown: Caring and Community
Yvette Nicole Brown spent years working in Hollywood before she got her big break. Then she rose to fame with her comedic turns in Community and Drake...
What Next: Inside Israel’s October 7th Tourism
Scores of Jews from around the world are visiting Israel to tour the grounds of the Nova music festival and burned out kibbutzim, bearing witness and...
What Next: The View from Springfield, Ohio
The story of Springfield, Ohio—as told by the people who live there—is nothing like the one heard from the debate stage.
Guest: Aymann I...
What Next: When Cops Police Your Vote
Law enforcement units looking to prevent voter fraud are popping up from Texas to Virginia—but are they trying to solve a problem that doesn’t exist—o...
A Word: How Kamala Harris Stumped Trump
It wasn’t even close. That was the verdict of most of the media—and millions of Americans—after the presidential debate on Tuesday. After Vice Preside...
A Word: Masters of the House…and the Senate
Many congressional staffers and workers on Capitol Hill have argued that, regardless of the party in power, the institution hasn’t evolved much on div...
What Next: Chicago's Mayor on the Democrats' Toughest Issue
What happened when a blue city inherited a red state problem.
Guests:
Brandon Johnson, mayor of the city of Chicago.
Dr. Ke...
What Next: Can Kamala Harris Win “Uncommitted” Democrats?
Democrats frustrated by Joe Biden’s policy towards Israel and Gaza voted for “uncommitted” in the primaries, notably in the crucial swing state of Mic...
A Word: Seeds of Justice for Black Farmers
In a recent CBS News interview, Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance charged that the Biden administration was favoring Black farmers over wh...
A Word: Project 2025: A Contract on Black America?
Project 2025, the massive Heritage Foundation policy blueprint, has become a major issue on the campaign trail for Democrats. While former President T...
What Next: The Olympics Meet the Culture Wars
How Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting—two women boxers fighting in the gender category they were assigned at birth—became the targets of trans panic and su...