a music-rich podcast examining modern issues of inequality through the lens of history, fusing the insights of award-winning journalists and experts with creative, illustrative storytelling.
Psychologist and author of “Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria?” Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum discusses her groundbreaking 1997 book with Henderson in the context of this moment of cultural and racial reckoning. They talk about how young people internalize race, systemic racism through suburban communities and the importance of cross racial friendships.
Award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa talks about immigrating to America, growing up in Chicago, and the process of writing about past trauma.
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. is chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University and the author of the new book “Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own.” He and Stephen Henderson discuss “the efficiency of American exceptionalism as an ideology.”
Award-winning poet and activist Caroline Randall Williams talks with Stephen Henderson about her work and what gives her hope during this dark time in American history.
Writing Professor and Author Jerald Walker discusses his poignant collection of essays called “How To Make A Slave," which is a finalist for a National Book Award. In the book, Walker reflects on growing up on Chicago's Southside, what it means to depict Black American life with authenticity and what he hopes to teach his children about the complex joy of the African-American experience.
JM Holmes, author of the collection of short stories How Are You Going to Save Yourself, talks with Stephen Henderson about the roles of race and gender in his writing.
Stephen Henderson and Harriet Washington, winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction discuss environmental racism and her book, A Terrible Thing to Waste.
NPR's first full-time TV critic, Eric Deggans, joins Stephen Henderson to discuss how prejudice, racism and sexism fuels some elements of modern media.
Sojourners founder Jim Wallis, author of America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America discusses what it means to be a white ally in 2020 with Stephen Henderson.
Stephen Henderson talks with Sarah M. Broom, author of The Yellow House, and discusses the roles of ritual and home for African Americans as told in her New York Times best-selling book which won the 2019 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Stephen Henderson speaks with Dr. Carol Anderson, author of White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, a New York Times Bestseller that was chosen as a New York Times Editor's Pick for July 2016.
Pulitzer Prize winning commentator Stephen Henderson's conversation with 2016 National Book Award-winner Ibram X. Kendi about his book How to Be An Antiracist, a New York Times #1 Best Seller in 2020.
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Colson Whitehead talks with Stephen Henderson about his novel The Nickel Boys and the influence of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man on his explorations of race in America.
Hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Stephen Henderson, Season 3 of the podcast Created Equal explores “Writers on Race, from Ralph Ellison to Colson Whitehead,” and features some of the most important voices in literature as well as the national conversation on racial inequities. Recorded throughout the pandemic and civil unrest of 2020. Each episode consists of a conversation between Henderson and one writer exploring the role of their work in the conversation about race in America.
Stephen Henderson is joined by Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha and State Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich of Flint (p. 194) at a live event at the Detroit Public Library. They share their personal stories during the Flint Water Crisis and discuss the challenges and obstacles that still exist in Flint.
Dr. Stout is a Legionella expert and director of the Special Pathogens Laboratory in Pittsburgh. She helped directly tie the deadly outbreak of Legionnaires Disease in Flint to the switch to Flint River Water in the city's drinking water system. Stout was hired by McLaren to assist the hospital in defending itself against a $100-million lawsuit and against state claims that its failings caused what the state calls the "largest healthcare-associated Legionnaires' outbreak known" in the United States.
Created Equal, Season 2: Ron Fonger is a longtime reporter with MLive and The Flint Journal. He's been writing about Flint since the city started using the Flint River as the city's water source in April 2014. He's written more than 500 articles regarding The Flint Water Crisis.
Created Equal, Season 2: Dimple Chaudhary and Eric Schwartz Dimple Chaudhary is senior attorney and managing litigator at the National Resources Defense Council. She is the lead counsel in cases against both Flint and Pittsburgh for their lead water crisis. Eric Schwartz, Assistant Professor of Marketing at The Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan He is one of the researchers that developed an algorithm to determine what neighborhoods most likely have lead pipes in Flint.
Lindsey Smith is Michigan Radio's Investigative Reporter. Her 2015 documentary about the Flint water crisis, Not Safe to Drink, won the station a national Edward R. Murrow Award, an Alfred I. duPont - Columbia University Award, and a Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Award.
Melissa Mays is a mother-of-three-turned-activist after her and her sons became greatly impacted by the lead in Flint's water and now takes 18 separate prescriptions to stay alive. She is the founder of Water You Fighting For and filed one of the first lawsuits to force Michigan to replace lead-infected water lines in the City of Flint.
Marc Edwards, a civil engineer and University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech conducted the research confirming that lead was poisoning Flint's water. His work on the “Lead Crisis” in DC led to publication of a landmark paper documenting harm to DC's children resulting from government agency negligence. He also created the Flint Water Study, an independent research team from Virginia Tech (VT) that volunteers their time, resources and expertise to help resolve scientific uncertainties associated with drinking water issues being reported in the City of Flint.
Virg Bernero was the 51st Mayor of Lansing and is currently CEO of Bernero Hannan LLC. Bernero put pressure on the Lansing Board of Water & Light to remove lead lines. Lansing is one of two cities in the county to completely have all lead lines removed.
Flint-area native with more than 16 years of experience in journalism including print, television and digital media. She has worked for The Detroit News, NBC25, Fox and MLive Media Group/The Flint Journal, where she covered the city of Flint. Jiquanda discovered that the community needed a news publication focused only on Flint, Mich so she launched Flint Beat on March 13, 2017 to fill that need.
S2E6 Thomas Sugrue p.120. Thomas Sugrue is a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at NYU. A specialist in twentieth-century American politics, urban history, civil rights, and race. He is the author of The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit.
Among the first journalists covering the Flint Water Crisis, Guyette went door-to-door searching for the truth about Flint water. “Page 54 of What the Eyes Don't See”
Long-time friend of Mona Hanna-Attisha and former EPA water quality expert suspected Flint water was not safe in spite of government reassurances and spoke up. “Page 30 of What the Eyes Don't See”
Flint native and Congressman Dan Kildee details how the system failed the citizens of Flint, and his efforts to make Washington understand. “Page 131 of What the Eyes Don't See”
Flint pediatrician who discovered elevated lead levels in children and blew the lid off of the Flint Water Crisis. Author of “What The Eyes Don't See”
Created Equal Host and Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Stephen Henderson previews Season Two of The Created Equal Podcast and discusses the impact of race, equity and disinvestment in Flint before the water was switched to the Flint River causing the crisis.
Author and pastor Jim Wallis talks about the need for white people to stand against racism in America.
In order to make positive change for marginalized people, privileged people must care about and stand up for equal rights. The story of Viola Liuzzo shows us how deep the impact of true empathy is felt.
Gold Star father Khizr Khan may be the most patriotic American we've ever spoken with. In this conversation he talks about his belief in America's core values.
The Electoral College was created in 1787 through something that made the founding fathers great -- compromise. But in that compromise the founders failed to confront deep-seated inequalities in the nation, and created a government that still today reflects that injustice.
Four Tops founding member Duke Fakir talks about capturing lightning in a bottle with Motown in the 1960s.
Art is a reflection of society, and society is a reflection of art. American music has been a global standard bearer for a century, in part for its ability to shift dramatically with society. Two Motown insiders talk about how the legendary record label resisted and then embraced change in the '60s.
Created Equal host Stephen Henderson speaks with "Blood in the Water" author and University of Michigan professor Heather Ann Thompson about the modern mass incarceration and its implication on communities.
Being "tough on crime" is politically popular. But does it make communities safer? In 1971 a prison uprising in New York state opened the door for President Richard Nixon and Governor Nelson Rockefeller to push for harsh drug laws with lasting repercussions.
“We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.” The team at ESPN's The Undefeated website talks about covering black American life holistically in the media landscape.
Who tells your story? The media hold the narrative for marginalized people, for better or worse. The word "carjacking" written in print got swept into a '90s narrative about black American life.
These "Declarations" feature more thoughts from the experts you hear in episodes of Created Equal. This week, author and professor Lester Spence (01. The Kiss) discusses the effect of "neo-liberalism" in American politics and marginalized communities.
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