Some of My Best Friends Are Filmed On Location: What TV Tells Us About Who We Are

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Actor, director, playwright, and screenwriter J. Nicole Brooks joins Khalil and Ben to talk about working on TV shows set in her hometown, such as South Side, The Chi, and Chicago Fire. They also talk about the Chicago-based TV show The Bear, what it means to represent a city authentically, and how it’s possible to achieve the universal through the specific.

The Hosts

Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Khalil Gibran Muhammad is one of the nation’s leading experts on the history and present of race and racism, having led the oldest Black archive and teaching at Harvard’s leading policy school.…

Ben Austen

Ben Austen is a journalist and the author of High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing, which was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Nonfiction and named…