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What and who are America’s public lands for? We continue our monthly film series with a documentary that asks that question, and explores the precarious balance between enjoying and exploiting our shared spaces.

As Black Lives Matter protesters continue to march throughout the country demanding changes to our police forces, we look back at history and ask: How did racial discrimination within our police forces start?

After a long, valiant and inspiring battle with prostate cancer, the writer and teacher Jeff Metcalf died Friday, June 12, 2020. He was a great friend of the show. In 2014, he joined us to talk about his memoir, Requiem for the Living, about his fight to stay alive. Jeff's vivacity and humor were infectious, his determination was uplifting, and his kindness was a blessing to all he met. He will be dearly missed by our community.

In a time when America is taking a hard look at our country’s racist past and present, LDS scholar Joanna Brooks looks at the history of race within the LDS church.

In the wake of the death of George Floyd, protestors across the country have been pushing to defund the police. The same demands can be heard in Utah, and they’re only getting louder.

For the historian Ibram X. Kendi, the death of George Floyd while in police custody is yet another story in the long nightmare of the black experience in America.

Picture your workplace team, church council, community group or any other small collection of people: What’s the gender makeup? If the group has more men than women, there’s a good chance that the women do not speak up as much as the men.

George Packer is one of those few writers whose byline alone is often enough to convince people to click on his articles.

In March, as the COVID-19 pandemic started sweeping the world, plague fiction soared onto bestseller lists, with Albert Camus’ 1947 novel The Plague leading the pack.

On December 4, 2016, Edgar Maddison Welch took an assault rifle into a Washington, D.C., pizza joint and fired three times. Why? He believed there was a secret pedophilia ring in the basement run by Hilary Clinton.