In his new book the University Professor and Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa interacted with colonists of European origins to create new regional cultures in the colonial United States.

Aaron Tang is a law professor at the University of California, Davis.

On June 23rd, he wrote a New York Times Opinion piece titled There's a Way to Outmaneuver the Supreme Court, and Maine Has Found It.

In 2019, Professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin was appointed chair of the Presidential Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery which is anchored at the Radcliffe Institute. In April of this year, the Committee issued a landmark report detailing Harvard University’s direct, financial, and intellectual ties to slavery. Harvard has committed $100 million dollars to redress harms to descendant communities in the United States and in the Caribbean.

Ryan Busse is a former firearms industry executive who quit. In his new book he

shows us how America's gun industry shifted from prioritizing safety and ethics to one that is addicted to fear, conspiracy, intolerance, and secrecy.

Gal Beckerman has written a book about the engines of social change and examines why revolutions ignite and then flame out.

Assistant Professor Josiah Rector from the University of Houston specializes in 20th century U.S. urban environmental history and the history of the environmental justice movement.

He has written a book titled, Toxic Debt: Race, Capitalism, and the Struggle for Environmental Justice in Detroit.

Free Renty tells the story of her efforts to force Harvard University to surrender possession of a daguerreotypes of her great-great-great grandfather, an enslaved man named Renty.

This past Thursday the Massachusetts Surpeme Court ruled that Tamara Lanier COULD sue Harvard for EMOTIONAL DISTRESS over its possession of photographs that depict her enslaved ancestors.

But, the Court justices affirmed a lower court’s DISMISSAL of Lanier's property claims to the photographs.

Free Renty tells the story of Tamara Lanier's efforts to force Harvard University to surrender possession of a daguerreotypes(da·guerre·o·type) of her great-great-great grandfather, an enslaved man named Renty. The daguerreotype was commissioned in 1850 by a Harvard professor named Louis Agassiz. He wanted to use it as part of his research to "prove" the superiority of the white race. The film focuses on Lanier and tracks her lawsuit against Harvard.

Samuel Moyn is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and Professor of History at Yale University.

His research interests are in modern European intellectual history, with special interests in France and Germany, political and legal thought, historical and critical theory, and Jewish studies.

Samuel Moyn asks a troubling but urgent question: What if efforts to make war more ethical—to ban torture and limit civilian casualties—have only shored up the military enterprise and made it sturdier?

Our guest is Professor Did-ee-aa Fassin from the Institute for Advanced study in Princeton, New Jersey. He is a French anthropologist and sociologist who has adapted from the landmark essay Enforcing Order… a graphic book titled Policing the City: An Ethno-graphic

For 18 months, Professor Fassin observed up close the daily life of an anti-crime police unit in a neighborhood on the outskirts of Paris.