Notes from America with Kai Wright

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Notes from America with Kai Wright is a show about the unfinished business of our history, and its grip on our future.

What ‘The Wiz’ Was And Is to Black Culture

2 years
What ‘The Wiz’ Was And Is to Black Culture
49m

Tonya Mosley Reckons with a Dark Family Story and Holds Tight to Hope in the Podcast She Has a Name

2 years
Tonya Mosley Reckons with a Dark Family Story and Holds Tight to Hope in the Podcast She Has a Name
50m

How This Passover Feels Different For Many Jewish Americans

2 years
How This Passover Feels Different For Many Jewish Americans
49m

An Investigative Journalist Is Rocked By the ‘Inconceivable Truth’ Of His Own Identity

2 years
An Investigative Journalist Is Rocked By the ‘Inconceivable Truth’ Of His Own Identity
46m

Amber Ruffin Talks ‘The Wiz’ Revival, Writing for ‘Late Night,’ and Representation in Comedy

2 years
Amber Ruffin Talks ‘The Wiz’ Revival, Writing for ‘Late Night,’ and Representation in Comedy
50m

Voter Vibe Check: Why Trump Has More Support from Black Voters Than Ever

2 years
Voter Vibe Check: Why Trump Has More Support from Black Voters Than Ever
49m

Comedian Bassem Youssef’s Honest Reflection on Fame, the Pressure of Representation, and What it Means to be American

2 years
Comedian Bassem Youssef’s Honest Reflection on Fame, the Pressure of Representation, and What it Means to be American
50m

David Alan Grier Is Still Hitting Career Highs, More Than 40 Years After His Debut

2 years
David Alan Grier Is Still Hitting Career Highs, More Than 40 Years After His Debut
52m

Voter Vibe Check: Democratic Voters Are Torn Over Biden’s Gaza Policy

2 years
Voter Vibe Check: Democratic Voters Are Torn Over Biden’s Gaza Policy
50m

Kai Wright Presents Blindspot Episode 5: What If I Could Have Grown Old With My Brother?

2 years
Kai Wright Presents Blindspot Episode 5: What If I Could Have Grown Old With My Brother?
40m

How Actor Danielle Brooks 'Already Won' Before The Oscars

2 years
How Actor Danielle Brooks 'Already Won' Before The Oscars
50m

Kai Wright Presents Blindspot Episode 4: Respectability Politics and the AIDS Crisis

2 years
Kai Wright Presents Blindspot Episode 4: Respectability Politics and the AIDS Crisis
49m

Are We Really Having a 'Migrant Crisis?' Depends Who You Ask.

2 years
Are We Really Having a 'Migrant Crisis?' Depends Who You Ask.
49m

We Could End AIDS. So Why Are People Still Dying?

2 years
We Could End AIDS. So Why Are People Still Dying?
49m

Leading with Love: Care and Compassion in the Early Days of AIDS

2 years
Leading with Love: Care and Compassion in the Early Days of AIDS
51m

It's Giving ‘Hell No’ — Danielle Brooks On Becoming ‘The Color Purple’s’ Sofia

2 years
It's Giving ‘Hell No’ — Danielle Brooks On Becoming ‘The Color Purple’s’ Sofia
9m

A Palestinian-American Victim of American Gun Violence Becomes A Reluctant Poster Child

2 years
A Palestinian-American Victim of American Gun Violence Becomes A Reluctant Poster Child
50m

Kai Wright Presents Blindspot Episode 3: ‘Women Don’t Get AIDS, They Just Die From It’

2 years
Kai Wright Presents Blindspot Episode 3: ‘Women Don’t Get AIDS, They Just Die From It’
46m

Intercultural Relationships Are More Common, But Are They Less Taboo?

2 years
Intercultural Relationships Are More Common, But Are They Less Taboo?
49m

Kai Wright Presents Blindspot Episode 2: If I Didn’t Have HIV, I Wouldn’t Have Met You

2 years
Kai Wright Presents Blindspot Episode 2: If I Didn’t Have HIV, I Wouldn’t Have Met You
39m

Voter Vibe Check: Anti-Trump Conservatives On Republican Party Politics In 2024

2 years
Voter Vibe Check: Anti-Trump Conservatives On Republican Party Politics In 2024
49m

Kai Wright Presents Blindspot Episode 1: Mourning In America

2 years
Kai Wright Presents Blindspot Episode 1: Mourning In America
35m

What A Segregated Mental Asylum Can Tell Us About Health Care in the US Today

2 years
What A Segregated Mental Asylum Can Tell Us About Health Care in the US Today
49m

Kai Wright Hosts Blindspot: The Plague In The Shadows

2 years
Kai Wright Hosts Blindspot: The Plague In The Shadows
5m

Doom. Denial. ‘Hopium.’ What About Climate Action?

2 years
Doom. Denial. ‘Hopium.’ What About Climate Action?
49m

Reclaiming Woke: Celebrating The Legacy Of Martin Luther King Jr. Live At The Apollo

2 years
Reclaiming Woke: Celebrating The Legacy Of Martin Luther King Jr. Live At The Apollo
50m

What the Ozempic Craze Means for Our Personal Health

2 years
What the Ozempic Craze Means for Our Personal Health
49m

Raoul Peck Fights for Justice With His Movies

2 years
Raoul Peck Fights for Justice With His Movies
49m

I Was A Child of Dread

2 years
I Was A Child of Dread
50m

Why NYC’s Move to Privatize Public Housing Could Impact the Rest of the Country

2 years
Why NYC’s Move to Privatize Public Housing Could Impact the Rest of the Country
50m