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Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. Discussion Points: On the construction of whiteness as America’s original sin: “…the problem isn’t us, that America’s original sin isn’t slavery, or it isn’t the genocide of Native People, America’s original sin is the price of the ticket to become American and that is to become white. So, whiteness is this idea, or it contains this idea, that some lives ought to be valued more than others and it’s precisely that belief that leads to the devaluing and disregarding of other ...

Jerald Walker is a Writing, Literature and Publishing professor at Emerson College. He is also the author of a new collection of personal essays called “How To Make A Slave And Other Essays,” which is a finalist for a National Book Award. The collection explores what it means to grow, parent, write and exist as a Black man in America. Discussion Points: On the historical context of the title of the collection, “How To Make A Slave.” “There’s one scene in his autobiography where (Frederick) Douglas is pretty much fed up with his treatment by his slave master. And he says, rig...

Discussion Points: How the television landscape has changed since ”Race Baiter” was originally published in 2012:  ”I started my chapter on scripted television talking about ‘2 Broke Girls,’ that long-ago sitcom on CBS. It had some pretty stereotypical characters of color on it. Flash forward to today, and especially for African Americans, there’s a much wider range of shows out there for people to experience. Everything from ‘Atlanta’ on FX to ‘Insecure’ on HBO to ‘Blackish’ on ABC… The fact that 30% of the Emmy nominees this year in major categories were Black p...

Episode 6 Guest: Harriet A. Washington Harriet A. Washington is an award-winning author and medical ethicist. Her book “A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind” outlines the racial disparities in exposure rates to environmental hazards and the impact those toxins have on health outcomes and brain development. Washington defines environmental racism as, “the disproportionate exposure of people of color to toxic environmental agents.”  Discussion Points: Racial faultlines in exposure to environmental hazards: “Exposure to (envi...

Episode 5 Guest: Jim Wallis Reverend Jim Wallis, is the Founder, President, and Editor-In-Chief of Sojourners, and is the author of twelve books, including “America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege and the Bridge to a New America.” Rev. Wallis says this moment and movement has brought into sharper focus America’s long history of systemic racism.  “I have never heard the phrase ‘America’s Original Sin’ spoken more than I have in the last two months,” says Wallis of his book written in 2015. Discussion Points: How George Floyd’s death sparked a reckoning of...