Host Sheryl McCarthy sits down with the prolific Motown author Peter Benjaminson to discuss his newest book: the first-ever complete biography of female empowerment icon Betty Boop.

'Oppenheimer" is a box office hit this season. Host Sheryl McCarthy talks with Kai Bird, co-author of “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer,” the book on which the movie is based. The story offers a lesson for our time.

Theater-goers know to go to the TKTS booths in Times Square to buy Broadway tickets at prices they can afford. TKTS is now celebrating it's 50th anniversary, and Sheryl McCarthy talks with Michael Naumann, it's Managing Director about how they do it.

Host Sheryl McCarthy talks with Philip Dray, author of A Lynching at Port Jervis" which examines the 1892 lynching of Robert Lewis and the white mob who got off scot-free. Dray connects this brutal history to racialized violence today.

Minority and women-owned small businesses in NYS struggle to survive and grow. Host Sheryl McCarthy talks to Hector Batista, CUNY Vice Chancellor about how the university is reversing this trend, connecting businesses to opportunities to sell to CUNY.

Without doubt, Rosa Parks is one of the heroes of our time. A new documentary, "The Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks", on Peacock TV reveals that she led a life dedicated to activism. Host Sheryl McCarthy talks with its co-director, Yoruba Richen.

Two years ago, NYS legalized the recreational sale of marijuana, leading to CUNY introducing its first cannabis education program. We talk with Prof. Alicia Reid and Vikiana Reyes-Clement from Medgar Evers College about what students are being taught.

Few subjects have occupied as much space in American political discourse as Israel. Host Sheryl McCarthy talks with Eric Alterman, CUNY Professor, about this relationship in his new book "We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel".

Do Ivy League colleges and universities champion social equality or do they help the privileged maintain their status? Host Sheryl McCarthy talks with Evan Mandery, the author of "Poison Ivy" and department chair at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.