‘I got an email being called the N-word just last week as a matter of fact for some of our coverage. I think at the end of the day what we can do is just truly speak the truth.’ -Marcus Harrison Green

A wild literary ride from rural Vancouver Island to Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility

May 19th, 2022 53m 26s

‘All anybody wanted to talk about was the pandemic, which I resisted for about a week, and then I realized we all need to talk about the pandemic. It's not even like it was the elephant in the room. It's like it was the room. It was unavoidabl

‘What will I carry forward?’ A journey through wilderness, dementia, and memory

May 12th, 2022 58m 8s

‘It took her some time to find her voice, but when she did she said three careful words, it’s so beautiful.’

One man’s story of the scourge of child sexual abuse

May 5th, 2022 1h 10m

‘In the equation of institutional sexual abuse, the constant is the abuser. There's always going to be a certain percentage of child sex abusers in the population.’

Poet reflects on the intersection of Black art and a new generation of racial trauma

Apr 20th, 2022 57m 27s

‘If black children belong to us, and we need not be mothers or fathers or even black for black children to belong to us, a part of us is always vigilant, and always exhausted.’

Mayor Bruce Harrell looks back on his first 100 days and details his plans moving forward

Apr 19th, 2022 59m 51s

‘When I talk about public safety, when I talk about I need more officers, I always lead with, but not in a racialized or militarized fashion.’

In honor of women: poetry and music of struggle and joy

Apr 14th, 2022 1h 15m

One poet asks, ‘Will you not open this door for me? My hand is exhausted from knocking at your door.’

DEI ’R’ US: Setbacks and progress on the road to belonging at work

Apr 6th, 2022 1h 20m

‘It’s not going to happen in my lifetime. We are working to a future that we will not live to see. That’s what this work is about, and the healing is knowing that we’re doing it together.’

Can INTOIT moments bridge our partisan divide? Perhaps, if we seek them out

Mar 31st, 2022 1h 4m

‘It's a different kind of approach and different kind of exchange that I know that we can do because I've seen it, and it's growing. It begins with a different definition of listening. Listening is about showing people they matter.’

Telling modern world history with Africa at the center

Mar 23rd, 2022 56m 19s

'This, I argue, is the beginning of the Age of Exploration, the Age of Discovery, and thereby, the start of the modern world.’

New book narrates lessons for organizing across borders and generations

Mar 16th, 2022 58m 44s

‘Contemporary Asian American Activism: Building Movements for Liberation’

New book traces Black women’s innovative advances across the history of human rights

Mar 9th, 2022 52m 12s

‘Black women have been deeply engaged in trying to figure out how to get this country to accept, to understand, to learn about human rights.’

An environmental scientist points to Indigenous knowledge for sustainability solutions

Mar 3rd, 2022 58m 39s

‘That's why we lose a lot of our own community members who are not interested in western sciences because they don't see themselves being reflected. I think with Indigenous science we have to reflect ourselves because, otherwise, we are ignorin

The highs and lows of a prized and vulnerable freedom

Feb 25th, 2022 56m 54s

‘Free speech has been perhaps one of the most powerful engines of human equality that we've ever stumbled upon as a species.’

New book explores advances in immune system science

Feb 17th, 2022 59m 59s

‘We are having exponential growth in our understanding of the immune system. There’s just so much to learn, and our baseline has just been established.’

From prison chain gang to art world notoriety, the life and work of Winfred Rembert

Feb 9th, 2022 1h 16m

‘We had been married over five years before he decided that he would even mention to me what had happened. I just knew he was having trouble sleeping. And this is the kind of torture that followed him until he died.’

Authors reckon with the aftermath of childhood sexual abuse

Feb 2nd, 2022 1h 3m

‘It’s Tim who stands out in my memory, who was always by my side. Until he wasn’t.’

Defining disability justice and celebrating ‘crip-centric liberated zones’

Jan 27th, 2022 1h

‘Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid’

Paul Auster celebrates the precocious, abbreviated life and work of Stephen Crane

Jan 19th, 2022 55m 29s

'Crane is now in the hands of the specialists, while the invisible army of so-called general readers, the same people who still take pleasure in reading old standbys such as Melville and Whitman, are no longer reading Crane.’

What are we willing to do to protect Southern Resident orcas?

Jan 13th, 2022 59m 49s

What it will take to share this region with Qw'e lh'ol mechen, ‘the people that live under the sea’

Trans history and one man’s struggle to correct ‘a ghastly mistake’

Jan 7th, 2022 1h 2m

‘Dr E. Forbes-Sempill henceforth wishes to be known as Dr Ewan Forbes-Sempill’

Anita Hill on her mission to end gender violence and harassment

Dec 31st, 2021 1h 3m

‘We know it’s a cultural problem. We know it’s a behavioral problem. But it’s not a problem of a few bad apples.’ – Professor Anita Hill

Called to investigate, three authors reflect on the body

Dec 24th, 2021 52m 13s

‘I’m still surprised when I’m noticed. I came to believe I was invisible.’

A beloved story series returns to herald the hope of reconnection

Dec 10th, 2021 1h 44m

‘Only Connect! Stories of coming together after a world interrupted.’

‘The science isn’t complicated.’ An investigative reporter details the effects of climate change disinformation in public education

Dec 3rd, 2021 55m 22s

‘We’re pumping millions of tons of warming pollutants into the atmosphere every day. The trick is, you don’t need very much of the population to doubt it to stop action.’