Colors: A Dialogue on Race in America

A statue of iconic Black American intelligence pioneer, Harriet Tubman was unveiled recently at the Central Intelligence Agency. Her 3X great grand-niece Tina Wyatt and CIA museum director Robert Byers talk about the significance. Tweet us at @podcastcolors .  Check out our partner program on international affairs, Global with JJ Green on Substack. Please subscribe. Email us at colors@the colorspo...

Grammy Award-winning songwriter Marcus Hummon talks about his collaboration with Randolph-Wright, and the role of art in the conversation on race in America. Tweet us at @podcastcolors .  Check out our partner program on international affairs, Global with JJ Green on Substack. Please subscribe. Email us at colors@the colorspodcast.com.  

General C.Q. Brown Jr., the first African American, Air Force Chief of Staff, talks about the USAF's critical future, diversity, the importance of allies, and more. Tweet us at @podcastcolors .  Check out our partner program on international affairs, Global with JJ Green on Substack. Please subscribe. Email us at colors@the colorspodcast.com.  

Ty Seidule, retired Brigadier General, and professor at Hamilton college set the record straight. Tweet us at @podcastcolors .  Check out our partner program on international affairs, Global with JJ Green on Substack. Please subscribe. Email us at colors@the colorspodcast.com.  

Neil G. Ruiz, associate director of race and ethnicity research at the Pew Research Center, joins us to discuss some extraordinary research about what it's like being Asian in America. Tweet us at @podcastcolors .  Check out our partner program on international affairs, Global with JJ Green on Substack. Please subscribe. Email us at colors@the colorspodcast.com.  

Author Helena Andrews-Dyer, a senior culture writer at The Washington Post, discusses what it was like after having her first child, and joining the local mom group—“the Mamas”—and quickly realizing that being one of the only Black mothers in the mix, was a mixed bag. Tweet us at @podcastcolors .  Check out our partner program on international affairs, Global with JJ Green on Substack. Please subs...

Author Natalia Molina, discusses her childhood and much more at this restaurant which became an icon in Los Angeles, and a cultural beacon for American race relations. Tweet us at @podcastcolors .  Check out our partner program on international affairs, Global with JJ Green on Substack. Please subscribe. Email us at colors@the colorspodcast.com.  

Niyati Shah, Director of Litigation, at Asian Americans Advancing Justice joins us to talk about how civil rights organizations in the Asian American, African American, and Latino(x) communities are working together to fight against people trying to dismantle affirmative action and race-conscious admissions policies. Tweet us at @podcastcolors .  Check out our partner program on international affa...

Author Jennifer Farmer joins us to discuss the book, the problems Black women face professionally and the solutions. Tweet us at @podcastcolors .  Check out our partner program on international affairs, Global with JJ Green on Substack. Please subscribe. Email us at colors@the colorspodcast.com.  

Ashley Shelton, Founder, President and CEO of the Power Coalition says many Black women, are disappointed in what's happened to them since the 2020 Presidential election. Despite, playing a decisive role in the election, they "have less rights than our grandparents had", says Shelton. But that's about to change. Tweet us at @podcastcolors .  Check out our partner program on int...

Georgetown U. Law Professor and Author Kristin Henning joins us to explain how this happens Tweet us at @podcastcolors .  Check out our partner program on international affairs, Global with JJ Green on Substack. Please subscribe. Email us at colors@the colorspodcast.com.  

Decoteau J. Irby, an associate professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago joins us with the results of a study that will make you want to...get involved. Tweet us at @podcastcolors .  Check out our partner program on international affairs, Global with JJ Green on Substack. Please subscribe. Email us at colors@the colorspodcast.com.  

Elizabeth Chun Hye Lee, Climate Justice Lead and Executive for Economic and Environmental Justice with United Methodist Women, explains how those communities are suffering the brunt of climate change. Tweet us at @podcastcolors .  Check out our partner program on international affairs, Global with JJ Green on Substack. Please subscribe. Email us at colors@the colorspodcast.com.  

Prentiss Haney, Executive Director of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative explains why Redistricting is a problem across the country. Tweet us at @podcastcolors .  Check out our partner program on international affairs, Global with JJ Green on Substack. Please subscribe. Email us at colors@the colorspodcast.com.  

Andrea Mercado, Executive Director of Florida Rising, talks about the disappointment, the real dangers, and what they are going to do about it. Tweet us at @podcastcolors .  Check out our partner program on international affairs, Global with JJ Green on Substack. Please subscribe. Email us at colors@the colorspodcast.com.  

18-year-old Zoe Touray, joins JJ and guest co-host Charley Locke, to talk about surviving a shooting in her school and what she's doing to try to stop them from happening. Tweet us at @podcastcolors .  Check out our partner program on international affairs, Global with JJ Green on Substack. Please subscribe. Email us at colors@the colorspodcast.com.  

Politico reporter Daniel Lippman and Brett Bruen, President of the Global Situation Room join us to lay out what's happening and why. Tweet us at @podcastcolors .  Check out our partner program on international affairs, Global with JJ Green on Substack. Please subscribe. Email us at colors@the colorspodcast.com.  

Tharaha Tavakumar, a mom and a therapist joins us with her thoughts, concerns, and expertise. Tweet us at @podcastcolors .  Check out our partner program on international affairs, Global with JJ Green on Substack. Please subscribe. Email us at colors@the colorspodcast.com.  

Dr. Gretchen Sullivan-Sorin, Director & Distinguished Professor at the SUNY Oneonta, Cooperstown Graduate Program discusses the concerning connection between increasing violence, weapons, and hate. Tweet us at @podcastcolors .  Check out our partner program on international affairs, Global with JJ Green on Substack. Please subscribe. Email us at colors@the colorspodcast.com.  

Tharaha Thavakumar told us on Colors last year about a racist incident in her community where a high school student posted a picture on social media of himself with a gun saying he carried to "kill N------". She warned us that young people in the region were embracing violent racist ideologies. But few people would listen... until now. Tweet us at @podcastcolors .  Check out our partner...

Nancy Stark, Board Chair of the Washington Area Community Investment Fund, Inc. (WACIF) discusses how they do it Tweet us at @podcastcolors .  Check out our partner program on international affairs, Global with JJ Green on Substack. Please subscribe. Email us at colors@the colorspodcast.com.  

Dr. Thandiwe Dee Watts-Jones, a noted psychologist and family therapist, joins us to help us understand how "internalized racism" can pit victims of racism against people of their own race. Tweet us at @podcastcolors .  Check out our partner program on international affairs, Global with JJ Green on Substack. Please subscribe. Email us at colors@the colorspodcast.com.  

Charley Locke, a freelance journalist, who writes for the New York Times for Kids edition, talks to six children about the trauma they faced and what they decided to do about it. Tweet us at @podcastcolors .  Check out our partner program on international affairs, Global with JJ Green on Substack. Please subscribe. Email us at colors@the colorspodcast.com.  

New York Times Houston Bureau Chief David Goodman talks about why there is so much support to stop Melissa Lucio's execution, and how she got to this point in the first place. Tweet us at @podcastcolors .  Check out our partner program on international affairs, Global with JJ Green on Substack. Please subscribe. Email us at colors@the colorspodcast.com.  

Yuri Sak, a Ukrainian Defense Advisor, entrepreneur Pradeep Goel, and Rachel Denber, Deputy Director, for the Europe and Central Asia division of Human Rights Watch talk about what's unfolding. Tweet us at @podcastcolors .  Check out our partner program on international affairs, Global with JJ Green on Substack. Please subscribe. Email us at colors@the colorspodcast.com.