IPPH On Air

The fight for voting rights and the fight for D.C. Statehood remain linked, urgent, but also challenged and delayed. Get the history, obstacles and strategy from this week's guest on State of Play including author/journalist, Ari Berman. We'll also hear from historians Prof. Carol Anderson, Prof. Eddie Glaude, Jr., and Prof. Kate Masur. The show also features interviews with DNC Chair, Jaime Harrison; Black Voters Matter co-founder, LaTosha Brown; and, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL).

The digital divide is just the beginning of the problems faced by black people because of the technology industry. Find out more about the consequences of and potential solutions for the technology gap. Interview guests include Dr. Nicol Turner Lee, Dr. Ruha Benjamin, Dr. Allison Scott, and Dean Devdas Shetty

The Lending and investment crisis in black America and what can be done about it.

Sharon Pratt speaks with Malcolm Nance, author, counterintelligence professional, and MSNBC analyst, and Dawn Nakagawa, Executive VP of the Berggruen Institute.

Sharon Pratt speaks with Professor Emeritus Michael Holt, University of Virginia, author “By One Vote,” The Honorable Lorraine Miller, 35th Clerk, US House of Representatives, and Congressman Jamie Raskin, MD, 8th Congressional District, Judiciary Committee, key advisor to Speaker Pelosi around legal issues in presidential election.

Sharon Pratt speaks with Karin Johanson, former Executive Director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and now senior official for the Biden/Harris Western Pennsylvania campaign, Pratt Wiley, former Director of the DNC Voter Protection Program, and Evelyn Perez Verdia, Florida Statewide Advisor for Latino Issues.

Sharon Pratt speaks with Laura Murphy, Lead Civil Rights Auditor for Facebook and Professor Charles Murphy, Kenan Sahin Distinguished Political Science Professor and Founding Director of the MIT Election Data and Science Lab.

This week's program focuses on how popular culture/performing arts, often establish “baked in” notions of “worthiness, competency—and how these notions often make appropriate demands, such as DC Statehood, uphill climbs. The two incredible expert guests are: Maria Manuela Goyanes and Nikki Giovanni.

Sharon Pratt discusses the cultural history of Washington D.C. with poet Naomi Ayala, former Executive Director of the Humanities Council of Washington, DC Joy Austin, and poet, teacher and host Ethelbert Miller.

Our guests include: Kevin Merida, ESPN Senior Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of the sports blog The Undefeated and Bijan Bayne, award-winning Washington-based freelance columnist, critic, author and IPPH Resident Fellow in Sports. The focus is the tradition of protest in America (Boston Tea Party), how protest has been leveraged in sports—propriety and effectiveness of same.