Since COVID, overall crime rate has gone down. But, gun violence has increased primarily in neighborhoods that are impoverished and black. Why have Americans bought 3 million more guns at the beginning of lockdown than the year before? What are the possible causes and solutions to this development? Host Sheryl McCarthy talks with Candace McCoy, Professor of Criminal Justice at CUNY Graduate Center and John Jay College.

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Host Sheryl McCarthy interviews Francois Pierre-Louis, Professor of Political Science at Queens College about the current crisis in Haiti due to the president's assassination in July.

Crisis in Haiti

Host Sheryl McCarthy discusses a hot topic today -- Critical Race Theory -- with Terry Watson, Associate Professor from City College. What IS critical race theory? Why is it getting so much attention now? And what will be the result of banning it?

One to One Season Premiere

Carrying a bundle of newspapers and shouting out the day’s headlines on city streets, the newsboy is an American icon. Featured in photographs, paintings, comic strips and public statues, he’s touted as someone who is quintessentially American. Who is—or was-- he? Why does he loom so large in the public imagination? And is he even always a boy? Vincent DiGirolamo, associate professor of history at Baruch College, answers these questions in his engaging book,“Crying the News: A History of American’s Newsboys.

Newsboys

Medgar Evers College is one of eleven four-year colleges in the City University system. Located in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, it was named after the late civil rights activist Medgar Evers, and was created with the mission of empowering and providing educational opportunities to the city’s educationally underserved black communities.

Medgar Evers New President

Since last year, Asian-Americans have experienced a 150% increase in violent attacks, according to some estimates. What has caused this surge in anti Asian feelings? How does prejudice against Asians and the stereotyping of people of Asian ancestry play out every day? And how do all of us lose out as a result?

Asian Discrimination

Should Puerto Rico become a state? Over the last 50 years Washington lawmakers have introduced more than 100 bills to resolve Puerto Rico’s status, but none of them have gone anywhere. Now, there are two bills before the House of Representatives that could decide the island’s status once and for all. Is Congress finally ready to make Puerto Rico a state? And if so, how would that benefit the island?

Puerto Rico Status

Shonna Trinch, sociolinguist and Edward Snajdr, cultural anthropologist, both faculty members in the Department of Anthropology at John Jay College, and authors of “What the Signs Say: Language, Gentrification and Place-making in Brooklyn.

Gentrification: What the Signs say

Robert Jones Jr. takes an intimate look at homosexual love between two teen-aged slaves on a Mississippi cotton plantation

The Prophets

The British Royal family has renewed discussions of the centuries old issue of Colorism @onetoone discuss the topic with City College Prof. Vanessa Valdes

Colorism

Who's responsible for misinformation and disinformation on the internet

Aimee Rinehart discusses misinformation, disinformation

“Remains to be Seen,”offers a rare perspective on former industrial, commercial, residential and natural sites across the U.S.

One to One With Travis Fox, dir of visual journalism

Learn why CUNY's Graduate Center is one of the top places for a graduate education in the country. A conversation with Dr. Robin Garrell, the new President of the Graduate Center.

One to One with Graduate Center President Dr. Robin Garrell

Host Sheryl McCarthy speaks with Tamara Payne, co-author of "The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X" which just won the National Book Award.

One to One with Author Tamara Payne

Can Stoicism, an ancient Roman/Greek philosophy, help us live a modern life today? A talk with Massimo Pigliucci about new book "A Field Guide to a Happy Life: 53 Brief Lessons for Living."

One to One with Massimo Pigliucci

Distinguished Lecturer in journalism at Queens College and long-time New York Newsday columnist Sheryl McCarthy speaks with accomplished individuals from all walks of life in this engaging half-hour series.

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