58 Episodes

  1. How Good Manners Made Me Happier (with Etiquette Expert William Hanson) from The Happiness Lab

    Published: 6/23/2025
  2. How Dogs Changed my Life (with The Dogist) from The Happiness Lab

    Published: 6/16/2025
  3. Introducing Fiasco: The Battle for Boston

    Published: 2/4/2025
  4. From The Parole Room

    Published: 11/1/2024
  5. Exploring Life-Saving AI Tech with T-Mobile for Business

    Published: 10/29/2024
  6. Thank You For Being Some of Our Best Friends

    Published: 8/16/2023
  7. Samantha Irby is Quietly Hostile & Raucously Funny

    Published: 8/9/2023
  8. The End of Affirmative Action

    Published: 8/2/2023
  9. Fantastic Future: Reimagining the American City

    Published: 7/26/2023
  10. From The Last Archive: Acting Out

    Published: 7/19/2023
  11. America’s Poverty is by Design

    Published: 7/12/2023
  12. Ben and Khalil Go South

    Published: 7/5/2023
  13. The FBI’s War on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

    Published: 6/28/2023
  14. Immigrants Aren't the Problem

    Published: 6/21/2023
  15. Are We in a Civil War?

    Published: 6/14/2023
  16. To the Hip Hop You Don’t Stop with Jelani Cobb

    Published: 6/7/2023
  17. Ending the Cycle of Police Violence with Keith Ellison

    Published: 5/31/2023
  18. Truth and Reconciliation: A Lesson from South Africa

    Published: 5/3/2023
  19. Why Can't We Be Friends?

    Published: 4/26/2023
  20. What’s Wrong with ‘You People’?

    Published: 4/19/2023

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Some of My Best Friends Are… is a podcast hosted by Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Ben Austen, two best friends who grew up together on the South Side of Chicago in the 1980s. Today a Harvard professor and an award-winning journalist, Khalil and Ben still go to each other to talk about their experiences with the absurdities and intricacies of race in America. In Some of My Best Friends Are..., they invite listeners into their unfiltered conversations about growing up together in a deeply-divided country, and navigating that divide as it exists today.