Notes from America with Kai Wright is a show about the unfinished business of our history, and its grip on our future.
Amber Ruffin Talks ‘The Wiz’ Revival, Writing for ‘Late Night,’ and Representation in Comedy
April 15, 2024
50:34
Voter Vibe Check: Why Trump Has More Support from Black Voters Than Ever
April 8, 2024
49:32
Comedian Bassem Youssef’s Honest Reflection on Fame, the Pressure of Representation, and What it Means to be American
April 1, 2024
50:31
David Alan Grier Is Still Hitting Career Highs, More Than 40 Years After His Debut
March 25, 2024
52:27
Voter Vibe Check: Democratic Voters Are Torn Over Biden’s Gaza Policy
March 18, 2024
50:11
Kai Wright Presents Blindspot Episode 5: What If I Could Have Grown Old With My Brother?
March 15, 2024
40:36
How Actor Danielle Brooks 'Already Won' Before The Oscars
March 11, 2024
50:25
Kai Wright Presents Blindspot Episode 4: Respectability Politics and the AIDS Crisis
March 8, 2024
49:44
Are We Really Having a 'Migrant Crisis?' Depends Who You Ask.
March 4, 2024
49:12
We Could End AIDS. So Why Are People Still Dying?
March 1, 2024
49:08
Leading with Love: Care and Compassion in the Early Days of AIDS
Feb. 25, 2024
51:56
It's Giving ‘Hell No’ — Danielle Brooks On Becoming ‘The Color Purple’s’ Sofia
Feb. 23, 2024
9:14
A Palestinian-American Victim of American Gun Violence Becomes A Reluctant Poster Child
Feb. 19, 2024
Kai Wright Presents Blindspot Episode 3: ‘Women Don’t Get AIDS, They Just Die From It’
Feb. 16, 2024
46:33
Intercultural Relationships Are More Common, But Are They Less Taboo?
Feb. 12, 2024
49:15
Kai Wright Presents Blindspot Episode 2: If I Didn’t Have HIV, I Wouldn’t Have Met You
Feb. 9, 2024
39:55
Voter Vibe Check: Anti-Trump Conservatives On Republican Party Politics In 2024
Feb. 5, 2024
49:16
Kai Wright Presents Blindspot Episode 1: Mourning In America
Feb. 2, 2024
35:54
What A Segregated Mental Asylum Can Tell Us About Health Care in the US Today
Jan. 29, 2024
49:56
Kai Wright Hosts Blindspot: The Plague In The Shadows
Jan. 26, 2024
5:07
Doom. Denial. ‘Hopium.’ What About Climate Action?
Jan. 22, 2024
49:36
Reclaiming Woke: Celebrating The Legacy Of Martin Luther King Jr. Live At The Apollo
Jan. 15, 2024
50:50
What the Ozempic Craze Means for Our Personal Health
Jan. 8, 2024
49:21
Raoul Peck Fights for Justice With His Movies
Jan. 1, 2024
49:39
I Was A Child of Dread
Dec. 25, 2023
50:36
Why NYC’s Move to Privatize Public Housing Could Impact the Rest of the Country
Dec. 18, 2023
50:12
Remembering Rapper Prodigy As A Cure For Sickle Cell Emerges
Dec. 13, 2023
29:38
What the New Cure for Sickle Cell Disease Really Means
Dec. 11, 2023
50:14
Bias in A.I. and the Risks of Continued Development, with Dr. Joy Buolamwini
Dec. 4, 2023
50:22
Out of hope? Maybe stop for a sandwich and a song.
Nov. 27, 2023
How Boston’s Big Dig built our expectations of American infrastructure
Nov. 20, 2023
50:56
Nikki Giovanni and Kimberly McGlonn on space travel, sustainable fashion and Black liberation
Nov. 13, 2023
Black Lives Matter, 10 years later
Nov. 6, 2023
51:26
‘It’s Worse Than Ever’
Oct. 30, 2023
49:53
Imminent Danger Ep 3: One Doctor and a Trail of Injured Women
Oct. 26, 2023
27:05
Can Osage Citizens Revive Fairfax?
Oct. 23, 2023
We Don't Talk About Leonard: Episode 3
Oct. 19, 2023
51:48
The View From Gaza
Oct. 16, 2023
49:26
We Don't Talk About Leonard: Episode 2
Oct. 12, 2023
51:27
Oct. 9, 2023
50:37
We Don't Talk About Leonard: Episode 1
Oct. 5, 2023
51:31
Is Capitalism Working for You?
Oct. 2, 2023
48:14
Silicon Valley’s History of Fumbles with Capitalism
Sept. 28, 2023
31:35
What Does It Mean to be Free?
Sept. 25, 2023
Eating Elk Kabobs in Idaho
Sept. 21, 2023
23:40
The Birth of Climate Denial
Sept. 18, 2023
30:55
When Chicago Closed 50 Public Schools at Once
Sept. 14, 2023
18:55
Public School’s Failing Prospects
Sept. 11, 2023
31:55
When Hip Hop Tried to Fight the Power, and Lost
Sept. 7, 2023
19:24
The Blurry Line Between Appropriation And Appreciation
Sept. 4, 2023
32:06
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