Nov 17, 2023
On this episode of Our Body Politic, host Farai Chideya talks with Shannon-Janean Currie, vice president at Benenson Strategy Group, which conducted our inaugural survey for our Living Data series. Farai then speaks with Cathy Cohen, the founder, and director of...
Nov 10, 2023
On this episode of Our Body Politic, guest host Sayu Bhojwani talks with Adriane Lentz-Smith, associate professor of history at Duke University about polarization, division, and the politics of rage. Sayu then speaks with Christina Greer, Moynihan Public Scholars...
Nov 3, 2023
On this episode of Our Body Politic, guest host Karen Grigsby Bates talks with Virginia Kase Solomón, CEO of the League of Women Voters, about the threats and issues poll workers face protecting democracy. Karen then speaks with Melissa Murray, NYU law professor and...
Oct 27, 2023
On this episode of Our Body Politic, host Farai Chideya is celebrating the spooky season with Black women creators of horror. First, we hear her conversation with Louisiana-based writer and director Zandashé Brown on expanding the canon of Black Southern gothic...
Oct 20, 2023
On this episode of Our Body Politic, guest host Hagar Chemali, Creator and Host of Oh My World! talks with SiriusXM Host and MSNBC columnist Nayyera Haq and Global Opinions Editor for The Washington Post, Karen Attiah, about the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. We round...
Oct 13, 2023
On this episode of Our Body Politic, co-host Karen Grigsby Bates talks about redistricting and newly redrawn maps in Alabama with Marina Jenkins, executive director of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee. Then Karen looks at redistricting on the city level...
Oct 6, 2023
On this special episode of Our Body Politic produced in partnership with Level Forward, we highlight the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women’s (MMIW) crisis. Guest host Andrea Ambam, writer, performance artist, and host of Level Forward’s More to Talk About speaks...
Sep 29, 2023
On this episode of Our Body Politic, host Farai Chideya, speaks with Linda Villarosa, journalist, author, and educator about the dangers of medical racism. Then Farai speaks with Donald K. Sherman, Executive Vice-President of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in...
Sep 22, 2023
We’re celebrating our third-year anniversary at Our Body Politic! We started this journey covering the 2020 election, so let’s continue on that path by covering one of the states that will be key in the next election – Georgia. On this episode of Our Body...
Sep 15, 2023
From redistricting to Governors acting against the will of the people, we explore, whose vote counts. On this episode of Our Body Politic, host Farai Chideya, speaks with Elected Florida State Attorney Monique Worrell about being suspended by Governor Ron Desantis,...