Wendell Pierce is a proud journeyman actor
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Laverne Cox
For more than a decade, actor Laverne Cox has been one of the most visible trans women in America. But the ‘Orange Is the New Black’ star sa...
Best Of: A family split by race / Eddie Glaude Jr. on America at 250
Pope Leo XIV’s Creole family roots inspired New Orleanian journalist Susan Saulny to research her Creole great-uncle who moved to Chicago, i...
The collapse of Freedman’s Bank / Remembering Abdullah Ibrahim
‘In Savings and Trust,’ historian Justene Hill Edwards tells the story of the Freedman's Bank. Created for formerly enslaved people followin...
Comic Ali Siddiq on fatherhood, prison, and his biggest regret
Siddiq grew up in Houston with a largely absent father. In his new stand-up special, he paints a picture of the flawed man he admired – and...
An inside look at President Trump's campaign to acquire Greenland
New Yorker writer Ben Taub tells Dave Davies that while the idea of acquiring Greenland is out of the headlines, it hasn’t been dropped by T...
Remembering the nation's 'Lost Founder'
Jesse Wegman talks to Dave Davies about James Wilson. A brilliant lawyer who helped craft the U.S. Constitution, Wilson lived a colorful lif...
Scholar Eddie Glaude Jr. reflects on America at 250
Glaude's book , ' America, U.S.A.,' looks at the country through the lens of its previous anniversaries and centennials. Today, as in the pa...
Best Of: 'Book of Mormon' turns 15 / Actor Clarke Peters
Fifteen years after ‘The Book of Mormon’ made its Broadway debut, original cast members Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad once again took the sta...
Andrew Scott/Remembering author Marjane Satrapi
In the new film 'Pressure,' Scott plays an Army meteorologist advising military officials on the date for the D-Day invasion. He spoke to Te...
'Daily Show' comic Josh Johnson
Johnson says he’s not shy about sharing his insecurities on stage. "One of the most connected attributes of the human condition ... is just...
Josh O'Connor takes the lead in 'Disclosure Day'
O'Connor stars as a cybersecurity expert who decides the world deserves to know the truth about alien life in the Steven Spielberg film Disc...
How sky-high ticket prices, war & politics could impact the World Cup
The biggest World Cup ever starts this week. Laura Williamson, editor in chief of The Athletic, describes how sky-high prices, travel restri...
Andrew Rannells & Josh Gad look back on 15 years of ‘Book of Mormon’
Fifteen years after ‘The Book of Mormon’ made its Broadway debut, original cast members Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad once again took the sta...
Best Of: Novelist Maggie O’Farrell / A personal history of the N-Word
Maggie O’Farrell wrote the novel ‘Hamnet’ and co-wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation. She has a new book called ‘Land,’ about a fat...
Alan Cumming / Angela Lansbury
The Tony Awards are this Sunday. To celebrate, we’re listening back to two award-winners from our archive: Alan Cumming, who played the emce...
Clarke Peters: From ‘The Wire’ to ‘The Boroughs’
Peters’ credits include police Detective Lester Freamon in ‘The Wire,’ a Vietnam veteran in Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods,’ and now a retiree in...
How a single decision made a century ago split a family by race
Pope Leo XIV’s Creole family roots inspired New Orleanian journalist Susan Saulny to research her Creole great-uncle who moved to Chicago, i...
'Hamnet' novelist Maggie O'Farrell maps her Irish roots in 'Land'
O’Farrell’s 2020 novel ‘Hamnet’ was adapted into an award-winning film last year. She co-wrote the screenplay. It’s about the grief Shakespe...
Richard Pryor’s daughter Elizabeth is a scholar of the N-word
Historian Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor has spent her career tracing the racial slur, the N-word, through slavery, Jim Crow, the civil rights mov...