Notes from America with Kai Wright

432 Episodes

1. What ‘The Wiz’ Was And Is to Black Culture

   Published: 5/6/2024
2. Tonya Mosley Reckons with a Dark Family Story and Holds Tight to Hope in the Podcast She Has a Name

   Published: 4/29/2024
3. How This Passover Feels Different For Many Jewish Americans

   Published: 4/22/2024
4. An Investigative Journalist Is Rocked By the ‘Inconceivable Truth’ Of His Own Identity

   Published: 4/19/2024
5. Amber Ruffin Talks ‘The Wiz’ Revival, Writing for ‘Late Night,’ and Representation in Comedy

   Published: 4/15/2024
6. Voter Vibe Check: Why Trump Has More Support from Black Voters Than Ever

   Published: 4/8/2024
7. Comedian Bassem Youssef’s Honest Reflection on Fame, the Pressure of Representation, and What it Means to be American

   Published: 4/1/2024
8. David Alan Grier Is Still Hitting Career Highs, More Than 40 Years After His Debut

   Published: 3/25/2024
9. Voter Vibe Check: Democratic Voters Are Torn Over Biden’s Gaza Policy

   Published: 3/18/2024
10. Kai Wright Presents Blindspot Episode 5: What If I Could Have Grown Old With My Brother?

    Published: 3/15/2024
11. How Actor Danielle Brooks 'Already Won' Before The Oscars

    Published: 3/11/2024
12. Kai Wright Presents Blindspot Episode 4: Respectability Politics and the AIDS Crisis

    Published: 3/8/2024
13. Are We Really Having a 'Migrant Crisis?' Depends Who You Ask.

    Published: 3/4/2024
14. We Could End AIDS. So Why Are People Still Dying?

    Published: 3/1/2024
15. Leading with Love: Care and Compassion in the Early Days of AIDS

    Published: 2/25/2024
16. It's Giving ‘Hell No’ — Danielle Brooks On Becoming ‘The Color Purple’s’ Sofia

    Published: 2/23/2024
17. A Palestinian-American Victim of American Gun Violence Becomes A Reluctant Poster Child

    Published: 2/19/2024
18. Kai Wright Presents Blindspot Episode 3: ‘Women Don’t Get AIDS, They Just Die From It’

    Published: 2/16/2024
19. Intercultural Relationships Are More Common, But Are They Less Taboo?

    Published: 2/12/2024
20. Kai Wright Presents Blindspot Episode 2: If I Didn’t Have HIV, I Wouldn’t Have Met You

    Published: 2/9/2024