You Get A Podcast!
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You Get A Podcast!
We’re taking you back to weekdays at 4 pm. Kellie Carter Jackson and Leah Wright Riguer are historians, best friends, and Oprah obsessives. Now, it’s time to pour through the archives to relive and rehash the most iconic episodes from the decades-long run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
From book club controversies to diet fads and wars with the meat industry, conversations about police brutality and sexuality… and of course big giveaways… You Get A Podcast! will treat Oprah as the historical, social, and political force that she is — and have lots of fun.
As Kellie and Leah recap each show, they’ll put the show in critical context, and ultimately explain why Oprah will always be the Queen of Talk.
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Kellie Carter Jackson (Host, Executive Producer) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at Wellesley College, focusing on slavery and the abolitionists, political violence, historical film, and Black women’s history. She is the author of Force & Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence, which won the James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize and was a finalist for the Stone Book Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize. Carter Jackson is also co-editor of Reconsidering Roots: Race, Politics, & Memory, essays exploring the impact of Alex Haley’s Roots. She is the co-host of the Radiotopia podcast This Day in Esoteric Political History. Carter Jackson is also a Historian-in-Residence for the Museum of African American History in Boston. She is currently at work on two book manuscripts, The Remedy: Black Response to White Violence (Basic Books) and Losing Laroche: The Story of the Only Black Passenger on the Titanic.
Leah Wright Rigueur (Host) is an Associate Research Professor at the SNF Agora Institute and in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University. She is also a faculty fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her research interests include 20th Century United States political and social history, and modern African American history.
Her work emphasizes race, civil rights, political ideology, the American two-party system, and the presidency. Her first book was The Loneliness of the Black Republican and her latest book is Black Collar Criminals. Dr. Rigueur is an ABC News Contributor, and her writing, research and commentary has been featured across a wide range of TV, print, and radio.
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