Anna Julia Cooper
February 1, 2026
Born into slavery in the 19th century, Anna Julia Cooper received a classical education, attended…
Race Tagged Episodes
Shakespeare’s Outsiders
December 14, 2025
Over 400 years after his death, Shakespeare is still widely regarded as the greatest dramatist…
W.E.B. Du Bois
February 23, 2025
Sociologist, historian, philosopher, editor, writer, and activist, W.E.B. Du Bois was one of the most…
Can Streets Discriminate?
January 8, 2023
City streets play an important role in our everyday lives. We commute to work, walk…
Reading the Troubled Past
March 13, 2022
Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe lambasted Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness as a deeply racist work that…
Hacking the Brain: Beyond the Five Senses
January 23, 2022
Humans evolved to have a variety of senses—smell, sight, touch, etc.—that provide information about the…
Frantz Fanon and the Violence of Colonialism
July 19, 2020
Frantz Fanon is a thinker who has inspired radical liberation movements in places ranging from…
White Privilege and Racial Injustice
June 7, 2020
“White privilege” has become a buzzword in discussions about racial inequality and racial justice. The…
Fractured Identities
April 5, 2020
Despite tremendous strides made towards civil and political rights in the United States, discrimination and…
Race Matters
February 2, 2020
Started in the wake of George Zimmerman’s 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin,…
Summer Reading (and Misreading)
September 1, 2019
What should you be reading this summer—and how should you be reading it? We’re often…
Affirmative Action: Too Little or Too Much?
January 20, 2019
Addressing our nation’s history of racial injustice can be a truly backbreaking endeavor. Race-based affirmative…
Neuroscience and Free Will
May 20, 2018
We like to think of ourselves as rational agents who exercise conscious control over most…
Humanity Violated
August 20, 2017
People tend to treat other people who differ from them, even in seemingly small and…
Racial Profiling and Implicit Bias
June 18, 2017
Whether for counterterrorism measures, street level crime, or immigration, racial profiling of minorities occurs frequently.…
The Phenomenology of Lived Experience
April 23, 2017
Phenomenology is the philosophical study of experience and consciousness, performed by philosophers ranging from Sartre…
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