A Word … with Jason Johnson

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America doesn’t need another conversation about race. At least, not the kind we’ve been having ... the ones that are sparked by a crisis and move quickly from shock, to empty promises, to forgetting. No. What America needs are REAL conversations about race … ones that shine a light on the facts, the history, and the reality of how race plays out in our politics and society. That’s what Slate offers each week on A Word With Jason Johnson. A veteran political commentator, Johnson will bring his incisive wit to thoughtful discussions with leaders, journalists and other change-makers who will tell the truth about America’s challenges around race, and ideas on the way forward.

Episode Date
Run for the Border?
Mar 29, 2024
Love, Family, and Freedom’s Ultimate Price
Mar 22, 2024
Black Country Renaissance
Mar 15, 2024
Freedom Fight Like a Woman
Mar 08, 2024
Green Black Power
Mar 01, 2024
Diversity in the Diaspora
Feb 23, 2024
Ghost in the Medical Machine
Feb 16, 2024
True Crime in Black and White
Feb 09, 2024
Revolutionary Recharge
Feb 02, 2024
Fix Your CROWN
Jan 26, 2024
Send In the Clowns?
Jan 19, 2024
Can He Get an Amen?
Jan 12, 2024
A Multiverse of Problems
Jan 05, 2024
A Black Power Radical’s Rise and Fall
Dec 22, 2023
“Good” Hair; Bad Health
Dec 15, 2023
Is “The Talk” Too Much?
Dec 08, 2023
Black Cop, White Mob
Dec 01, 2023
Quinta Brunson: Comedy’s Class Act
Nov 24, 2023
Rebirth of a Nation
Nov 17, 2023
Black Voters, Blue Waves?
Nov 10, 2023
A F—ing Funny Lady
Nov 03, 2023
Sidelined by Racism?
Oct 27, 2023
Courting a Voting Rights Disaster
Oct 20, 2023
Cruel and Usual Punishment
Oct 13, 2023
Black Grief, White Grievance
Oct 06, 2023
Talk That Talk
Sep 29, 2023
School of Destruction
Sep 22, 2023
Wrong from the Beginning
Sep 15, 2023
Black Toy Joy
Sep 08, 2023
After Jacksonville, Is Antifa the Answer?
Sep 01, 2023
Democracy Dies in Dixie?
Aug 25, 2023
The Donald Went Down to Georgia
Aug 18, 2023
Haiti on the Brink
Aug 11, 2023
Golden Lady Ballers
Aug 04, 2023
The Rise of Post-Obama Racism
Jul 28, 2023
Justice Delayed, Justice Denied?
Jul 21, 2023
Black Dolls Matter
Jul 14, 2023
Trouble the Waters
Jul 07, 2023
The Rise of Miss Ross
Jun 30, 2023
Black and Proud
Jun 23, 2023
More Than A Hashtag
Jun 16, 2023
Hollywood Shuffle
Jun 09, 2023
My Father, the Spy
Jun 02, 2023
Reckoning on Campus
May 26, 2023
The Ballot, the Bullet, and the Truth
May 19, 2023
Dungeons, Dragons, and Diversity
May 12, 2023
Becoming “The Black Mozart”
May 05, 2023
Autism Beyond Awareness
Apr 28, 2023
Home is Where the Hurt Is
Apr 21, 2023
The Color of Money
Apr 14, 2023
The Battle for Eatonville
Apr 07, 2023
Build Black Better
Mar 31, 2023
When a Race War Threat Was Real
Mar 24, 2023
No More “Black Picket Fence”
Mar 17, 2023
Screaming in Color
Mar 10, 2023
De La Soul is Alive
Mar 03, 2023
Ranching, Racism, and Rumors
Feb 24, 2023
Lights, Camera, Diversity in Action
Feb 17, 2023
Surviving “Driving While Black”
Feb 10, 2023
A Killing in Cop City
Feb 03, 2023
The Fire This Time?
Jan 27, 2023
Haiti: Fear of a Black Republic
Jan 20, 2023
Shut Up and Teach?
Jan 13, 2023
Dying for Football?
Jan 06, 2023
Season’s Streamings
Dec 23, 2022
HBCU Football Blues
Dec 16, 2022
Is Rikers Island a Death Trap?
Dec 09, 2022
Bot Battling in the Age of Elon
Dec 02, 2022
Black Soccer GOALS!
Nov 18, 2022
Black Panther’s Pride
Nov 11, 2022
Gang Bangers with Badges
Nov 04, 2022
Jim Crow’s Killers
Oct 28, 2022
We Won’t Black Down
Oct 21, 2022
How Tech Can Help—or Harm—Racial Justice
Oct 14, 2022
Bleeding Heart on the Bayou
Oct 07, 2022
The Case for Critical Race Theory
Sep 30, 2022
The Kids are Alright
Sep 23, 2022
Teaching While Black
Sep 16, 2022
Save the Children
Sep 09, 2022
A Dream Defaulted: Black College Debt
Sep 02, 2022
Ballers and Shot Callers
Aug 26, 2022
Black Wombs Matter
Aug 19, 2022
Designing Wakanda
Aug 12, 2022
Full-Court Fighter
Aug 05, 2022
The Third COVID Summer
Jul 29, 2022
Hip Hop McCarthyism?
Jul 22, 2022
They Want to Kill Americans
Jul 15, 2022
Back to Black Colleges?
Jul 08, 2022
No Choice: Fighting for Abortion Rights
Jul 01, 2022
Full Court Stress
Jun 24, 2022
Black Gay Pride and Prejudice
Jun 17, 2022
Black Crypto Boom
Jun 10, 2022
Black to the Future Online
Jun 03, 2022
Debtor Nation Strikes Back
May 27, 2022
Reparations for Racist Violence?
May 20, 2022
Is Big Tech Pro-Choice?
May 13, 2022
Joy and Pain: Navigating Grief
May 06, 2022
Could Musk Kill Black Twitter?
Apr 29, 2022
Black Lives Matter: More Money, More Problems?
Apr 22, 2022
Holy Roller Racism?
Apr 15, 2022
Taxes, Death, and Trouble
Apr 08, 2022
It Hits Different
Apr 01, 2022
Heroes, Victims, or Threats: Race and Refugees
Mar 25, 2022
Are Oscars STILL So White?
Mar 18, 2022
Lynching’s Legacy: Emmett Till to George Floyd
Mar 11, 2022
Supreme Court Showdown
Mar 04, 2022
“Black City. White Paper.”
Feb 25, 2022
Porn and Prejudice
Feb 18, 2022
Black Balled in the NFL?
Feb 11, 2022
Homegrown Black History
Feb 04, 2022
Black Horror is Killing It
Jan 28, 2022
Home Robbery
Jan 21, 2022
Biden: Fighting or Failing on Voting Rights?
Jan 14, 2022
One Year: Ann Arbor's DNA Dragnet
Jan 07, 2022
Get Facts, Get Free: The Emancipator
Dec 31, 2021
Black Christmas Movie Bonanza
Dec 24, 2021
Black and Missing: Finding Our Own
Dec 17, 2021
Abbott Elementary’s Top Teacher
Dec 10, 2021
Planes, Trains and Pandemic Travel Plans
Dec 03, 2021
Cooking for the Culture
Nov 26, 2021
Colorism, Cluelessness, and Carefree Black Girls
Nov 19, 2021
Lights, Camera, Revolution
Nov 12, 2021
Legacy of Fire: The L.A. Riots
Nov 05, 2021
From Schoolyards to Prisonyards
Oct 29, 2021
Uneven Playing Field
Oct 22, 2021
Black to the Land
Oct 15, 2021
Supreme Injustice
Oct 08, 2021
Las Vidas Negras Importan
Oct 01, 2021
Texas Political Power Twins
Sep 24, 2021
Cancelling the “Black Friend” Excuse
Sep 17, 2021
Is Larry Elder the Best of Black Republicans?
Sep 10, 2021
Haiti’s DIY Recovery
Sep 03, 2021
The Color of Climate Change
Aug 27, 2021
Black to School, At Home
Aug 20, 2021
Tuskegee’s Ghosts Haunt COVID Fight
Aug 13, 2021
Eviction Restriction Showdown
Aug 06, 2021
Black Man With a Gun
Jul 30, 2021
Running on a Prayer
Jul 23, 2021
Cuba’s Color Revolution
Jul 16, 2021
The Cruelty Was the Point. Is It Still?
Jul 09, 2021
No Flag, No Anthem, No Apologies
Jul 02, 2021
The Racial Reckoning Soundtrack
Jun 25, 2021
Stacey Abrams is Hot
Jun 18, 2021
Is Critical Race Theory Getting Canceled?
Jun 11, 2021
Booked, Busy, and Funny as Hell
Jun 04, 2021
No Whites Allowed?
May 28, 2021
A Video Vault of Black Excellence
May 21, 2021
White Here, White Now
May 14, 2021
A Black Nerd Star Rises in Hollywood
May 07, 2021
Get Ready, Playa One
Apr 30, 2021
After George Floyd, Abolition or Death?
Apr 23, 2021
When Police Kill ... Again
Apr 16, 2021
Farming While Black
Apr 09, 2021
Battling Georgia’s Backlash Against Black Voters
Apr 02, 2021
The Falcon and the Rise of Black Superheroes
Mar 26, 2021
The Fight for Water Justice
Mar 19, 2021
Remembering Breonna Taylor
Mar 12, 2021
Calling Out Cancel Culture
Mar 05, 2021
White Nationalists in Uniform
Feb 26, 2021
Introducing: A Word … with Jason Johnson
Feb 18, 2021