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.

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Beverly Daniel Tatum, "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria?

Award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa talks about immigrating to America, growing up in Chicago, and the process of writing about past trauma.

Latino USA's Maria Hinojosa On Her Memoir, "Once I Was You"

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.”

Eddie Glaude, “Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own"

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.

S3 Ep 10: Poet Caroline Williams Randall

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.

S3 Ep 9: Jerald Walker, author of How To Make A Slave

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.

S3 EP 8: JM Holmes, How Are You Going to Save Yourself

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.

S3 EP 7: Eric Deggans, Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation

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.

S3 Ep 5: Jim Wallis, author of America’s Original Sin

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.

S3 Ep 4: Sarah Broom, The Yellow House

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.

S3 EP 3: Carol Anderson, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

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.

S3 Ep 2: Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

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.

Created Equal Season 3 Preview with Stephen Henderson

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.

S2E15: “What the Eyes Don’t See” author Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha and State Senator Jim Ananich of Flint

Created Equal Season 2: Hosted by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Stephen Henderson. Season Two of the podcast Created Equal examines the Flint Water Crisis and debuts as we mark four years from the date the water was switched back to the Great Lakes Water Authority after the failed experiment to source water from the Flint River. It is an audio companion to Dr. Mona Hanna Attisha’s book, “What the Eyes Don’t See.”

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