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Capehart

The Washington Post

Opinion writer Jonathan Capehart talks with newsmakers who challenge your ideas on politics, and explore how race, religion, age, gender and cultural identity are redrawing the lines that both divide and unite America. "Cape Up" is a podcast from Washington Post Opinions, with conversations adapted from Washington Post Live events.

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The author of ‘White Fragility’ doesn’t think ‘most white people care about racial injustice’

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06/02/20 • 38 min

Robin DiAngelo, the author of “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism,” doesn’t mince words. “I actually don’t think that most white people care about racial injustice. I really don’t,” she says.

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Mae Jemison, the first Black woman in space, is still reaching for the stars

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03/09/21 • 32 min

Jemison talks about the obstacles she faced, as a 16-year-old college student and then a scientist, and gives advice to today's Black Lives Matter activists.

'The Hate U Give’ author Angie Thomas on the importance of humanizing Black men

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02/02/21 • 31 min

Writing in the wake of the death of George Floyd, Thomas said, “The weight and the responsibility...felt even greater.”

Lee Daniels and Andra Day on the hidden activist life of Billie Holiday

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02/23/21 • 31 min

The director and singer discuss their latest movie “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” and how the FBI’s efforts to stop her from singing “Strange Fruit” turned the jazz singer into a leader in civil rights.

Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain on the 400-year story of Black people in America

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02/16/21 • 29 min

Kendi and Blain edited “Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019,” which tells the story of Black people in America from the perspectives of 90 writers who reflect the community's diversity and lived experience.

Jonathan Metzl on what's driving polarization in a post-Trump America — and how to fix it

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02/09/21 • 37 min

The "Dying of Whiteness" author talks about what he’s learning from new focus groups and why the 2019 Democratic victories in the Kentucky and Louisiana governor’s races "in the middle of Trumpism" provide a roadmap for bridging the divide.

Charles Blow wants Black Americans to move back to the South to gain real political power

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03/02/21 • 47 min

Former white nationalist Derek Black puts the Jan. 6 insurrection into perspective

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01/26/21 • 35 min

Derek Black, the godson of David Duke and the son of the creator of the website Stormfront, discusses the future of white nationalism in the context of recent events.

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A former White House social secretary shares how an inauguration should look behind the scenes

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01/19/21 • 44 min

Capricia Penavic Marshall knows presidential transitions — at least in years anything close to normal. This hand-off is certainly not that, but let Marshall explain how it ought to unfold in all its process and pageantry.

Tony Blinken: "This administration has turned our traditional openness into weakness"

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03/14/17 • 34 min

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