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Capehart episodes

September 14, 2021 'The monuments were murder'
In a conversation from 2017, then-Mayor of New Orleans Mitch Landrieu reflects on removing the last Confederate monument from his city, and the damage wrought by the myth of the Lost Cause.

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27 min
September 07, 2021 Rep. Andy Kim on anti-Asian hate
In an episode that originally aired in March, the New Jersey congressman discusses anti-Asian hate in the wake of the Atlanta spa shootings, and how he talks about the rise in hate crimes with his young son.

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44 min
August 31, 2021 Sen. Jeff Merkley's decade-long push for filibuster reform
In this conversation from March, Merkley gets into how the filibuster has ground work in the Senate to a halt. And what he thinks should be done to fix it, especially to preserve voting rights.

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38 min
August 24, 2021 The Republican Party is still in thrall to Donald Trump. Its members could learn from Stuart Stevens
In an episode that aired Sept. 22, 2020, the author of "It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump" talks about the evolution of the GOP — and what that means going forward.

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36 min
August 17, 2021We need more honest teaching of America's painful history
In this episode from 2018, Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative explains why we must come to terms with America's history if we are ever to start healing. The conversation is as relevant as ever amid debates about "critical race theory."

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1 hr 2 min
August 10, 2021Ibram X. Kendi explains why racist policies — not people — are the problem
The author of "How to be Antiracist" discusses the effect of bad policies and how we can move forward from them.
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34 min
August 03, 2021Equity is about more than just hiring diverse employees
Vernā Myers, Netflix's VP of inclusion strategy, discusses how she advocates for diverse voices to be heard at the table.
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32 min
July 27, 2021Texas state Rep. Senfronia Thompson explains why she joined the Austin walkout
The Texas state representative is among the 57 Democrats who left Austin in order to deny state Republicans the quorum needed to pass their voter suppression bill. They came to Washington with one goal: to appeal for federal action on voting rights.
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25 min
July 20, 2021Mitch Landrieu says when it comes to race, 'people are closing their eyes to basic history'
Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who succeeded in removing four Confederate monuments in his city in 2017, reflects on the state of race relations in our country.
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43 min
July 13, 2021Robin DiAngelo explains why White progressives have such a hard time confronting racism
The best-selling author of "White Fragility" discusses her new book, "Nice Racism," and why silence is part of the problem.
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44 min

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Opinion writer Jonathan Capehart talks with newsmakers who challenge your ideas on politics, and explore how race, religion, age, gender and cultural identity are redrawing the lines that both divide…