Ending the Cycle of Police Violence with Keith Ellison
It’s been three years since George Floyd was murdered by the police. After a swell of action followed by inaction, an important question remains: What...
Some of My Best Friends Are
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Some of My Best Friends Are… is a podcast hosted by Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Ben Austen, two best friends who grew up together on the South Side of Chicago in the 1980s. Today a Harvard professor and an award-winning journalist, Khalil and Ben still go to each other to talk about their experiences with the absurdities and intricacies of race in America. In Some of My Best Friends Are..., they invite listeners into their unfiltered conversations about growing up together in a deeply-divided country, and navigating that divide as it exists today.
Truth and Reconciliation: A Lesson from South Africa
Khalil talks to Ben about a recent trip he took to South Africa and what America can learn from the country’s efforts to reckon with its racist past. ...
Why Can't We Be Friends?
Friendships like Ben and Khalil's are rare in America, according to the numbers. In this episode, they talk about the social science on interracial fr...
What’s Wrong with ‘You People’?
Romance across race and religion has been the focus of a bunch of movies – some comedies, some dramas. Kenya Barris and Jonah Hill are taking a swing ...
Taking a Knee with Malcolm Gladwell
Sports have always been political, despite what some fans might like to believe. So what role should athletes play in political movements? Malcolm Gla...
From Started From the Bottom: How Charlamagne Turned Failure Into Success
Here’s a special episode from a new Pushkin podcast, Started From the Bottom. Host Justin Richmond interviews successful people with humble origins wh...
Can Multiracial Adoption End Racism?
Matthew Guterl is a historian of race and nation at Brown University, and also Khalil’s other white best friend. He joins the show to discuss his powe...
The Jeffersons vs. Sanford & Son
Ben and Khalil throw it back to the 1970s to talk about the TV shows they loved growing up – two of the greatest and most important sit-coms: Sanford ...
Why We Love and Hate Hollywood
Khalil and Ben go to the movies with the perfect partner: Jacqueline Stewart, the director and president of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. The...
How to Write the Past & Future with Clint Smith
Author and poet Clint Smith joins Ben and Khalil to talk about his new collection of poetry, “Above Ground.” They also discuss his previous book, “How...