All Of It with Alison Stewart

We air the second part of our March installment of Full Bio. Today, historian Tomiko Brown-Nagin discusses the early days of Constance Baker Motley's legal career and some of the major cases in which she was involved, including Brown v. Board of Education. Brown-Nagin's biography is called, Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality.

Queens is the biggest and most diverse borough in New York City and has some of the best and most creative culinary destinations. Time Out New York's food and drink editor Amber Sutherland-Namako will be here with a list of excellent Queens restaurants, and we'll take your calls about your favorites too. 

Actress Chloe Sevigny joins us to discuss her new role in "The Girl From Plainville," a fictionalization of the Michelle Carter "suicide-by-texting" case. Sevigny plays Lynn Roy, the mother of the boy who took his own life at Carter's urging. The series premieres today on Hulu. Sevigny is also reprising her role as Lenora in the hotly anticipated second season of Netflix's "Russian Doll" starring Natasha Lyonne.

As the son of two Korean immigrants, food has always been essential to New York Times staff writer Eric Kim. In his new cookbook, he shares recipes for meals that comforted him throughout his childhood in Atlanta and the ones he makes for himself here in New York. This includes Korean barbecue, and hybridized Korean-ish meals for one—like Gochujang-Buttered Radish Toast and Caramelized-Kimchi Baked Potatoes. Kim joins us to talk about his new book, Korean American: Food That Tastes Like Home.

We launch the March installment of our Full Bio series with historian Tomiko Brown-Nagin, who joins us to discuss her biography, Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality, about the civil rights lawyer, New York politician, and first Black woman to serve as a federal judge. Today, we discuss Motley's early life and education.

[The version of this segment that ran on air contained a section that was meant to be edited out. This is the edited version.]

The new Pixar film, "Turning Red," sparked debate online over the "appropriate" way to discuss puberty and menstruation with young girls. Peggy Orenstein, gender issues expert and author of the book, Girls And Sex, joins for a conversation about helping kids understand the changes their bodies go through, and how euphemisms like "monthly visitor" and "Aunt Flo" can be damaging to internalize.

Stephanie Foo thought she had it all. She was in a happy relationship, and was working as a radio producer for This American Life. However, for years she would have uncontrollable panic attacks in the office and cry at her desk, trauma that was rooted in the moment when Foo's parents abandoned her while she was a teenager. After trying to figure out what was wrong, Foo eventually became one of the first ever to be diagnosed with C-PTSD, or complex PTSD, in 2018. After her diagnosis, Foo spent years researching her condition, and the result is a new memoir called, What My Bones Know, featuring a first-person account of her struggles with C-PTSD and interviews with experts in trauma recovery. She joins us to discuss the book.

Sarahbeth Maney, New York Times photography fellow, discusses the photo she took of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's daughter in the Capitol, watching her mother's confirmation hearings.

Pop Chat host Elamin Abdelmahmoud and writers Kevin Fallon and Amil Niazi join to recap the 2022 Oscars.

[AIRED ON MARCH 24, 2022] We continue our series "The Big Picture" spotlighting Oscar nominees in the technical categories by speaking with Linda Dowds, who is nominated for her work on "The Eyes of Tammy Faye," transforming fellow nominee Jessica Chastain into Tammy Faye Bakker, a televangelist known for her excessive makeup.