Let Him Go Home (w/ Tikia Mosley)
Inspired by a conversation about sentencing reform with Pulitzer Prize-winner James Forman, Jr., Tali talks to Tikia Mosley, whose father served 25 years in prison for committing three small robberies.This…
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Culturally Competent and Financially Sustainable Healthcare
Dr. Lutfi Lokman co-founded Hospitals Beyond Boundaries to provide culturally competent and financially sustainable healthcare. His clinic follows a model pioneered by Muhammad Yunus (founder of the Grameen Bank) which…
Lenny Kravitz
Photo: Stephen Elvis SmithIn the opening lines of his New York Times bestselling memoir “Let Love Rule” Lenny Kravitz writes that he is deeply two-sided.His young life was all about…
Episode 6: Reshaping Nature Through Gene Drives
A new technology, called gene drives, has the power to spread any genetic instructions you wish across an entire animal or plant species in the wild. It might let us…
S.G. Goodman
Photo: Michael WilsonS.G. Goodman turns traditional Southern storytelling on its head with songs that present a deeper, more complex look at life below the Mason-Dixon line. As a queer person…
A Collective Redemption (w/ Rabbi Angela Buchdahl)
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, the Senior Rabbi of Manhattan’s Central Synagogue, joins Tali for a conversation about the points of intersection around faith, personal identity, and the fight for racial justice…
The Election and the Courts
Richard Pildes, a professor at New York University School of Law who specializes in legal issues affecting democracy, discusses the role that the courts could play in this election.Note: This…
Maya Hawke
Maya Hawke has managed to escape the long shadow of her very famous parents, Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke. She’s made a name for herself, first as an actor in…
Episode 5: What Algorithms Say About You
Artificial intelligence is letting us make predictive algorithms that translate languages and spot diseases as well or better than humans. But these systems are also being used to make decisions…
Deep Bench: The Coming War
Over the past few weeks on Deep Background, in addition to our regular show, we’re bringing you a special five-part series about the Supreme Court’s dramatic rightward turn.In this fifth…
Carlos Santana & Cindy Blackman
Photo: Maryanne BilhamCarlos Santana, along with his wife and drummer, Cindy Blackman got together with Rick Rubin to discuss the 2019 album they recorded together, Africa Speaks, and also to…
The Road out of the Pandemic
Marc Lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, comes back to Deep Background to discuss where we are now in the fight against COVID-19.