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Into America

New Series: Uncounted Millions

Michael Harriot, Nikole Hannah-Jones and Trymaine Lee.

Courtesy Vladimir Kolesnikov/Michael Priest Photography

Into America

Uncounted Millions BONUS: Nikole Hannah-Jones & Michael Harriot

Melisande Colomb walks through Georgetown University

Marvin Joseph / The Washington Post via Getty Images file

Into America

Uncounted Millions BONUS: The GU272

The Flateau family, descendants of Gabriel Coakley. Sitting L to R: parents Sidney, Sr. and Jeanne Marie. Standing L to R: Anne, Sidney, Jr., Alice, John, Adele, Richard, Andrea.

Courtesy Flateau family

Into America

Uncounted Millions: Reparations Now

Fred Korematsu, top left, with his legal team, including Don Tamaki, front center.

Crystal Huie / MTYKL Foundation

Into America

Uncounted Millions: The Cost of Healing

Albert Flateau, Jr. in Louisiana.

Courtesy Adele Flateau

Into America

Uncounted Millions: Things Fall Apart

Lena Edwards, daughter of Marie Coakley Edwards.

Courtesy Adele Flateau

Into America

Uncounted Millions: Take What’s Owed

Gabriel Coakley, Sr.

Into America

Uncounted Millions: Let's Get Free

Students hoping for a repeal of California's Proposition 209 hold signs as they protest outside of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Feb. 13, 2012 in San Francisco.

Justin Sullivan / Getty Images file

Into America

Ripples of Affirmative Inaction in California

Walter Foster holds up a sign as the Reparations Task Force meets to hear public input on reparations in Los Angeles

Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images file

ENCORE EPISODE

UPDATE: Into Reparations with Nikole Hannah-Jones

Affirmative Action supporters protest at the Supreme Court

Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesAffirmative Action supporters protest at the Supreme Court / Kent Nishimura

BONUS EPISODE

Understanding Affirmative Action

Phill Wilson; Naomi with her partner, Shelly Levy.

Ryan Zeidan; Naomi Ruth Cobb

Episode 214

Aging with Pride

The \"Absolute Equality\" mural in Galveston, Texas, on June 16, 2021.

Francois Picard / AFP via Getty Images

Episode 212

'Absolute Equality' in the Home of Juneteenth

Open AI Dall-E AI generated image for into America podcast

Episode 211

I'm Trym(AI)ne Lee

Rachel Gilmer and Dr. Armen Henderson of The Healing and Justice Center.

The Healing and Justice Center

Episode 210

Don't Send the Police: Freedom House Rides Again

Freedom House Ambulance Service first day, Presbyterian University Hospital, Pittsburgh, c. June 16, 1968.

Heinz History Center, courtesy Virginia Caligiuri

Episode 209

Don't Send the Police: Send Freedom House

Actor and writer Daheli Hall cheers as she joins WGA members on the first day of their strike in front of Paramount Studios in Hollywood, Calif., on May 2, 2023.

Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images file

Episode 208

Writers Strike Black

Trymaine Lee, Trinetta Alston, Lorraine Baker, and Nicky Moore at Tops Supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y.

Stefanie Cargill / MSNBC

Episode 207

Healing in Buffalo

Tracy McMillan, Jordyn McIntosh, Kerry Washington, Delroy Lindo, Faly Rakotohavana, and Marque Richardson of Onyx Collective's 'Unprisoned' in Pasadena, Calif., on Jan. 14, 2023.

JSquared Photography / Getty Images file

Episode 206

Delroy Lindo and Tracy McMillan on parenthood, forgiveness, and art

Anya Cook

Bonnie Jo Mount / The Washington Post via Getty Images

Episode 205

The Right to Life

The Capitol Police Force patrols the streets of downtown Jackson, Miss., on March 15, 2023.

Andrew Lichtenstein / Corbis via Getty Images file

Episode 204

Policing Jackson

LaKeith Smith

Tina Smith/justice4lakeithsmith

Episode 203

The Case of LaKeith Smith

Toxic chemicals float on the surface of Leslie Run creek in East Palestine, Ohio

Michael Swensen / Getty ImagesMichael Swensen / Getty Images file

Episode 202

Sacrifice Zones

Florida historian Marvin Dunn speaks with students on the Teach the Truth tour.

Stefanie Cargill

Episode 201

Teaching the Truth

People gather at a makeshift memorial for Breonna Taylor in downtown Louisville, Ky., on Sept. 26, 2020.

Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images file

ENCORE EPISODE

UPDATE: Into Injustice for Breonna Taylor

Image: 50 Years of Hip Hop Celebration Tribute performance at the 65th annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 5, 2023, in Los Angeles.

Chris Pizzello / AP file

Episode 200

Street Disciples: We Gon' Be Alright

Record executive Kevin Liles, rapper Sean \"Diddy\" Combs, singer Mary J. Blige and rapper Jay-Z attend a \"Promote The Vote Block Party\" in support of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama on Nov. 3, 2008, in Philadelphia.

Jeff Fusco / Getty Images file

Episode 199

Street Disciples: If I Ruled the World

A wall dedicated to the memory of Tupac Shakur in Los Angeles on May 26, 2016.

Valerie Macon / AFP via Getty Images file

Episode 198

Street Disciples: America's Most Wanted

A woman sits inside a subway car in New York 1973.

Smith Collection/Gado / Getty Images

Episode 197

Street Disciples: Broken Glass Everywhere

1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, N.Y., commonly recognized as the birthplace of hip-hop.

Al Pereira / Getty Images

Episode 196

Street Disciples: The Concrete Jungle

The area below the Claiborne interstate is blocked off with chain link fence in New Orleans

Erika Goldring / Getty Images file

Bonus Episode

Healing Tremé

Episode 195

Where Are They Now?, 2022 Edition

?This Christmas?: How a Chicago postal worker and Donny Hathaway created a holiday classic

Nancy Stone / Tribune News Service via Getty Images

Episode 194

Christmas, But Make it Black

MSNBC correspondent Trymaine Lee in New York, 2020.

Episode 193

Into Our Mailbag

Moses Cemetary Protest

Toni L. Sandys / The Washington Post via Getty Images file

Episode 192

Bethesda's Lost Colony

Episode 191

#RIPBlackTwitter?

Solo pilot Barrington Irving receives an honorary welcome after landing at Opa-Locka Airport in Miami on June 27, 2007.

Robert Sullivan / AFP via Getty Images file

Episode 190

Blue Skies, Black Wings

Florence Kasumba, Angela Bassett, and Danai Gurira in \"Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.\"

Episode 189

Wakanda is Forever

Image: Americans Head To The Polls To Vote In The 2022 Midterm Elections

Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images

Episode 188

These Polls Ain't Loyal

African Americans vote for the first time in Alabama after enactment of the Voting Rights Act.

Flip Schulke Archives / Corbis via Getty Images

Episode 187

The Ghosts of Midterms Past

Into America

Episode 186

Life, Loss, and Libations

W. Kamau Bell on Sept. 9, 2017 in Los Angeles.

Jason LaVeris / FilmMagic file

Episode 185

W. Kamau Bell to White People: "Do the Work!"

Sojourner Ahebee

Episode 184

The Power of the Black Vote: Creating A New South

Episode 183

The Power of the Black Vote: We Save Ourselves

Into America

Sojourner Ahebee

Episode 182

The Power of the Black Vote: Tackling Our Climate Crisis

Black Voters Matter Group Gathers In Selma For March To Montgomery

Brandon Bell / Getty Images file

BONUS Episode

Chris Hayes Interviews Trymaine Lee for "Why Is This Happening?"

Stefanie Cargill

Episode 181

The Power of the Black Vote: Knocking Out Student Loan Debt

Image: Trymaine Lee watches the marching band at Texas Southern University.

Virginia Moubray

Episode 180

The Power of the Black Vote: Taking Back the Classroom

Essence Preparatory Public School.

Courtesy Essence Preparatory Public School

Episode 179

Our Kids Are Scholars

Image: MLK and Malcolm X

Henry Griffin / AP file

encore episode

The Daughters of Malcolm and Martin (2021)

The Pickens Family pose for a photo. Williams Pickens III stands in the back row, third from left.

Williams Pickens III

ENCORE EPISODE

Black Joy in the Summertime (2021)

Damon Young is on Sept. 22, 2016 in Washington, DC.

Jonathan Newton / The Washington Post via Getty Images file

Episode 178

Choppin' It Up With Damon Young

Portrait of a young adult woman holding a cardboard sign against climate change

FilippoBacci / Getty Images

Episode 177

Climate Denial is Racist

Image: Trymaine Lee with HBCU students William Morris, Auriel Goodall, and Monique Vaz in Atlanta

Episode 176

The Gen Z Midterm Test

Close up of mixed race woman's pregnant stomach

Jose Luis Pelaez Inc / Getty Images

Episode 175

Pregnancy, Prison, and the End of Roe

Buffalo Supermarket Where 10 People Died In Mass Shooting Prepares To Re-Open

John Normile / Getty Images

Episodes 174

Buffalo's Road to Recovery

Lance Stevens poses with his mother, Kim Tillman.

Abigail K Photography

Episode 173

It's Not Supposed To Happen Here

Shaka Senghor attends the ICON MANN's 4th Annual Power 50 Dinner at Mr. C Beverly Hills on Feb. 26, 2016 in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Earl Gibson III / WireImage file

Episode 172

To All My Sons

Kool Raul of Memphis, Tenn. and Marcellus Jackson of Raleigh N.C. both party atop of their Utility Van while park in the parking lot of Greenbriar mall where students and residents alike gathered there to celebrate Freaknik on April 1, 1996.

Eric Williams / Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP file

Episode 171

Get Your Freaknik On

Image: QUentin Bell, Transgender Rights Advocates Rally Against Alabama Legislation

Julie Bennett / Getty Images file

Episode 170

Pride and the Bible Belt

Trymaine Lee speaks with Tracy Martin, Michael Brown Sr., and Jacob Blake Sr. about the weight of Black fatherhood amid a global fight for Black life.

EPISODE 169

Fathers of the Movement

Image: Big Daddy Kane

Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images file

Encore Episode

Big Daddy Kane's Lyrical Legacy (2021)

Image: Evangelist Bruce Warrick performs a baptism outside of Tops grocery store, in Buffalo, N.Y., on May 20, 2022.

Spencer Platt / Getty Images file

Episode 168

Space to Grieve

A Black man raising his fist up records a video with his phone of the \"Black Lives Matter\" protest in Amsterdam on June 1, 2020.

Robin Utrecht / SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Episode 167

The Revolution Will Be Digitized

Image: Mass Shooting in Buffalo New York Leaves 10 Dead

Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Episode 166

Hate and Heartbreak in Buffalo

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors stands for a photo at Crenshaw Dairy Mart, an art gallery and studio space co-founded by Cullors, in Inglewood, Calif., on April 19, 2022.

Jae C. Hong / AP file

Episode 165

Patrisse Cullors on Making Mistakes

Rodney King gestures prior to the presentation of his autobiographical book \"The Riot Within...My Journey from Rebellion to Redemption,\" in Los Angeles on April 30, 2012.

Joe Klamar / AFP via Getty Images

Episode 164

My Dad, Rodney King

A woman stands at the check-in window of the Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, La., on April 19, 2022.

Francois Picard / AFP via Getty Images file

ENCORE EPISODE

UPDATE: Inside a Texas Abortion Clinic

Image: Gate at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Patric Xo / Getty Images/500px Prime

ENCORE EPISODE

UPDATE: Ebony & Ivy

Image: Jean-Michel Basquiat

Rose Hartman / Getty Images file

Episode 163

How Basquiat Earned His Crown

Byron Encalade, founder of the Louisiana Oystermen Association, stands at the deserted docks in Pointe ? la Hache.

Allison Bailey / NBC News

Episode 162

Louisiana's Last Black Oystermen

Image: Man holding mobile phone and analyzing cryptocurrency trends

blackCAT / Getty Images

Episode 161

Is Black Crypto Freedom? Or Fad?

Image: Emmett Till

Episode 160

Emmett Till's Cousin Remembers

SAG-AFTRA Foundation's The Business: \"See You Yesterday\"

Gary Gershoff / Getty Images file

BONUS EPISODE

(Not) Chasing Oscar Gold

Image: Oscars arrival, WIll SMith, Jada Pinkett SMith

Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images

Episode 159

Was Will Smith Protecting Black Women?

Image: Kanye West, Ye

Scott Dudelson / FilmMagic file

Episode 158

We Gotta Talk About Kanye West

Ukrainian refugees come in Przemysl, Poland, on March 1, 2022.

Maciej Luczniewski / NurPhoto via Getty Images file

Episode 157

Black in the USSR

Will Smith in \"The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air\" and Jabari Banks in \"Bel-Air.\"

Episode 156

The Re-Freshed Prince of Bel-Air

Image: President Biden Nominates Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson To U.S. Supreme Court

Drew Angerer / Getty Images

Episode 155

Sista SCOTUS

Trayvon Martin Mural Unveiling New York City

Ben Gabbe / Getty Images for Paramount Network file

Episode 154

Reconstructed: The Book of Trayvon

Image: African Americans posed outside of church.

Universal History Archive / Universal Images Group via Getty Images file

Episode 153

Reconstructed: Keep the Faith, Baby

Summer Scene

Heritage Images / Heritage Images via Getty Images

Episode 152

Reconstructed: In Search of the Promised Land

African American Troops

Historical / Corbis via Getty Images

Episode 151

Reconstructed: Birth of a Black Nation

Jacob Lawrence poses in his Seattle studio.

George Rose / Getty Images fileGeorge Rose / Getty Images

ENCORE EPISODE

Harlem on My Mind: Jacob Lawrence (2021)

Image: President Joe Biden answers questions during a news conference at the White House on Jan. 19, 2022.

Mandel Ngan / AFP - Getty Images

Episode 150

One Year In, Has Biden Had Our Backs?

Uhuru Sasa Shule kids posing outside the school.

Osei T. Chandler

Episode 149

"The Sun Rises in The East"

Trump Supporters Hold \"Stop The Steal\" Rally In DC Amid Ratification Of Presidential Election

Spencer Platt / Getty Images file

Bonus Episode

The Far-Right Isn't All White

Image: Daryle Lamont Jenkins

Mel Evans / AP file

Episode 148

The Face of Anti-Fascism

Episode 147

Where Are They Now?

New Kid by Jerry Craft.

Quill Tree Books

Episode 146

Take a Look, it's in a (Banned) Book

Josephine Baker at the Strand Theater in New York on March 6, 1961.

Episode 145

Le Petit Problème Noir

Image: Al Sharpton, Ben Crump, Funeral Held For Daunte Wright In Minneapolis

Stephen Maturen / Getty Images file

Episode 144

Rev. Sharpton, Ben Crump, and the Pursuit of Justice

Trymaine Lee with students at Harvard College.

Courtesy / Trymaine Lee

Episode 143

Ebony & Ivy

A woman rests on a couch

Catherine McQueen / Getty Images

Episode 142

A Word from the Nap Bishop

As the book version of her 1619 Project is published, New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones tells Trymaine Lee how the project changed her life.

Mitchell Hanley

Episode 141

Changing the Narrative, with Nikole Hannah-Jones

Spc. Shoshana N. Johnson

Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Episode 140

The Forgotten POW

Marcus Garvey in a military uniform as the \"Provisional President of Africa\" during a parade on the opening day of the annual Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World along Lenox Avenue in Harlem, N.Y., August 1922.

Episode 139

Justice4Garvey

The Massachusetts Avenue apartment where Martin Luther King lived in as a college student, in Boston on Jan. 31, 2006.

Charles Krupa / AP file

Episode 138

Boston is Blacker Than You Think

Jazmine Sullivan accepts the Album of the Year award with Pam Sullivan at the BET Awards in Los Angeles on June 27, 2021.

Johnny Nunez / Getty Images for BET

Episode 137

Jazmine Sullivan's Fight Against Breast Cancer

Director of Clinical Services Marva Sadler, prepares the operating room at the Whole Woman's Health clinic in Fort Worth, Texas, on Sept. 4, 2019.

Tony Gutierrez / AP file

Episode 136

Inside a Texas Abortion Clinic

Marshview Community Organic Farm is a 5 acre farm on Saint Helena Island, S.C.

Sara Reynolds Green

Episode 135

The Tax Auction Block

A migrant seeking refuge in the U.S. crosses the Rio Grande towards Del Rio, Texas, on Sept. 23, 2021.

Daniel Becerril / Reuters

Episode 134

Haiti's Unforgivable Blackness

Silhouette of barbed wires and watchtower of prison.

Gatsi / Getty Images/iStockphoto

Episode 133

Locked in Hell

Image: Tracy Reese, J. Alexander Martin

Getty Images/J. Alexander Martin

Episode 132

Celebrating Black Fashion

Image: Into America

Episode 131

The Black Firefighters of 9/11

Image: Robin Cornish

Nitashia Johnson / for NBC News

Episode 130

Race and Education in an American Suburb

Image: A National Guard officer passes the smashed window of a black-owned flower shop in riot-torn Newark, N.J., on July 15, 1967.

Episode 129

The Essential Kerner Commission Report

Rapper Big Daddy Kane in New York on Aug. 12, 1988.

Catherine McGann / Getty Images file

Episode 128

Big Daddy Kane’s Lyrical Legacy

Image: Dewey Bozella lands an uppercut on Larry Hopkins in their cruiserweight fight at Staples Center

Stephen Dunn / Getty Images file

Episode 127

Freedom in the Final Round

Image: Senfronia Thompson

J. Scott Applewhite / AP file

Episode 126

Don’t Mess with Texas Voting Rights

Wyomia Tyus Winning Race at Olympics

Bettmann Archive

Episode 125

Beyond the Fist: Activism at the Games

Image: Teresa Moon, 68, a lifetime resident living near the Birwood Wall in Detroit, Mich., on June 9, 2021.

Brittany Greeson / for NBC News

Episode 124

8 Mile 4 Life

Marijuana activist Ed Forchion, who calls himself NJ Weedman, at his restaurant NJ Weedman's Joint in Trenton, N.J., on Feb. 12, 2021.

Victor J. Blue / Bloomberg via Getty Images file

Episode 123

Righting the Wrongs of the War on Drugs

Cloverplay Gym in Philadelphia in October 1974, where Joe Frazier trained.

The Ring Magazine via Getty Images

Episode 122

The Quiet Power of Preservation

Back view of elementary student raising his hand on a class.

skynesher / Getty Images

Episode 121

Know Your History

Image: Special Operations Policeman hands

Lucas Ninno / Getty Images

Episode 120

Black and Blue

Image: Trymaine Lee, center, speaks with Jamal Holtz from \"51 for 51\" and Anise Jenkins from \"Stand Up! for Democracy in DC\".

Episode 119

DC Votes Yes

The Pickens Family vacationing in Sag Harbor.

Courtesy the Pickens family

Episode 118

Black Joy in the Summertime

Image: Reverend Marlin Lavanhar, All Souls Church.

Episode 117

Blood on Black Wall Street: Excavating the Past

Image: Bobby Eaton Sr. in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Episode 116

Blood on Black Wall Street: What Was Stolen

One year after the death of George Floyd at the hands of police, NBC News' Trymaine Lee takes a look at how our politics, policing and conversation around race has changed ... and what hasn't.

Bonus Episode

Can You Hear Us Now? One Year Later.

Christopher Martin sits in front of George Floyd's mural in Minneapolis on April 22, 2021.

Courtesy Christopher Martin

Episode 115

After George Floyd

Image: Barber Giving A Haircut in His Shop

RyanJLane / Getty Images

Episode 114

A Shape-Up and a Check-In

Image: Protesters gather outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department calling for justice for Daunte Wright

Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Episode 113

Lessons on warrant reform from Ferguson

Image: President Joe Biden speaks about updated CDC mask guidance on the North Lawn of the White House

Drew Angerer / Getty Images

Episode 112

100 Days of Biden

Image: People inside the Twees Foods Store in the Third Ward where George Floyd grew up watch the verdict in Derek Chauvin's trial in Houston, Texas on April 20, 2021.

Mark Felix / AFP - Getty Images

Episode 111

A Verdict

Image: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell talks to reporters following the weekly Senate Republican caucus luncheon in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 16, 2021.

Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images file

Episode 110

Is It Time to Abolish the Filibuster?

Image: Murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin

Pool via Reuters

Episode 109

The Weight of Bearing Witness

Image: Bernice King, Ilyasah-Shabazz

Episode 108

The Daughters of Malcolm and Martin

Image: Partial Government Shutdown - soybean subsidies

Melina Mara / The Washington Post via Getty Images file

Episode 107

Justice for Black Farmers

Image: Benjamin Williams and Ben Mitchell help to distribute bottled water in the parking lot of Forest Hill High School on March 5, 2021 in Jackson, Miss

Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images

Episode 106

Without Water in Jackson

Image: Protest in Minneapolis during the George Floyd murder trial

Christopher Mark Juhn / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Episode 105

Jury System on Trial

Image: Vaccine being applied in a patient's arm

FG Trade / Getty Images/iStockphoto

Episode 104

The Vaccine Gap

Abram Hill directing a rehearsal of an American Negro Theatre production in 1944.

Courtesy the Schomburg Center

Episode 103

Harlem On My Mind: Abram Hill

Image: Poet and Critic Jessie Redmon Fauset, circa 1920

Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images file

Episode 102

Harlem On My Mind: Jessie Redmon Fauset

Arthur Alfonso Schomburg

Schomburg Center for Research / NYPL

Episode 101

Harlem On My Mind: Arturo Schomburg

American painter Jacob Lawrence

Robert W. Kelley / The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images

Episode 100

Harlem on My Mind: Jacob Lawrence

Image: Close-Up Of Papers

Nodar Chernishev / EyeEm/Getty Images

Episode 99

Reporting on Race

Image: Inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States

Jim Bourg / Reuters

Episode 98

Fighting White Supremacy on Day One

Image: Storm the Capitol

Evelyn Hockstein / The Washington Post via Getty Images

Episode 97

American Coup

Congress Holds Joint Session To Ratify 2020 Presidential Election

Cheriss May / Getty Images

Episode 96

An Election and an Insurrection

Houston Rockets v Los Angeles Lakers - Game Five

Michael Reaves / Getty Images file

Episode 95

Enough is Enough

Episode 94

Black Toys R Us

Image:

Kamil Krzaczynski / AFP - Getty Images file

Episode 93

At the Sherman Phoenix, Black Businesses Rise

Episode 92

Critical Condition

Malcolm X Speaking at Rally

Bettmann Archive

Episode 91

"The Dead Are Arising"

A worker wearing protective gear holds harvested carrots at Footprint Farms in Jackson, Miss., on April 6, 2020.

Rory Doyle / Bloomberg via Getty Images

Episode 90

Food for the Soul

Contact Sheet of James Baldwin photographs, May 3, 1976, Rainbow Sign archive, private collection of Odette Pollar.

Rainbow Sign archive / Private collection of Odette Pollar

Episode 89

Kamala Harris and the Rainbow Sign

Protestors Active In Philadelphia As Pennsylvania Ballot Count Continues

Spencer Platt / Getty Images

Episode 88

I Have Your Back

North Carolina Residents Cast Ballots As Early Voting For U.S. Presidential Election Begins

Rachel Jessen / Bloomberg via Getty Images

Episode 87

The Unfinished Election

US-VOTE-FLORIDA

Chandan Khanna / AFP via Getty Images

Episode 86

Could Black Men Help Flip Florida?

Early Voting Begins In Florida

Joe Raedle / Getty Images

Episode 85

Into Getting Black Men to the Polls

Senate Holds Confirmation Hearing For Amy Coney Barrett To Be Supreme Court Justice

Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / Pool Getty ImagesAndrew Caballero-Reynolds / Pool via Getty Images

Episode 84

Into Amy Coney Barrett's Record on Race

Image: New Jersey And Delaware Hold Primary Elections

David Dee Delgado / Getty Images file

Episode 83

Into Intimidation at the Polls

Image: America Cohee-Webster

Courtesy Rhonda Grayson

Episode 82

Into the Black Creeks Pushing for Tribal Citizenship

Image: Mike Pence And Kamala Harris Take Part In Vice Presidential Debate

Justin Sullivan / Getty Images

Episode 81

Into a High-Stakes VP Debate

President Trump Recuperates Amid Questions About His Health And Campaign

Ken Cedeno / Polaris / Bloomberg via Getty Images

Episode 80

Into Trump, Coronavirus and Conspiracy Theories

Image: Walter Reed Hospital Dr Sean Conley, US-VOTE-HEALTH-VIRUS-TRUMP-CONLEY

Brendan Smialowski / AFP - Getty Images

Episode 79

Into the President's Health and the Public Trust

Lab In New York Starts Covid 19 Tissue Bank To Aid Research

Misha Friedman / Getty Images file

Episode 78

Into the Black Doctors Vetting the Vaccine

Image: Donald Trump And Joe Biden Participate In First Presidential Debate

Win McNamee / Getty Images

Episode 77

Into the Presidential Debate: Race, Protests, and Police

Image: U.S. Supreme Court Justices Pose For Official Group Portrait

Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images file

Epoisode 76

Into Expanding the Supreme Court

Image: Thousands of Breonna Taylor protestors marched in NYC

Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Episode 75

Into Injustice for Breonna Taylor

Image: Amendment tour

Zak Bennett / AFP - Getty Images file

Episode 74

Into Restoring Voting Rights for Former Felons

Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her Chambers US Courthouse

Terry Ashe / The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images

Episode 73

Into Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the ACLU Years

Firefighters Battle The Dolan Fire On California's Big Sur Coastline

Nic Coury / Bloomberg via Getty Images

Episode 72

Into Reclaiming Fire to Save the Forest

Release Of Police Video Of Daniel Prude's Detainment Sparks Protests In Rochester, New York

Joshua Rashaad McFadden / Getty Images

Episode 71

Into Reimagining Mental Health and Policing

Students Participate In Remote Learning Sessions As Florida Schools Stay Closed

Marie Uzcategui / Bloomberg via Getty Images

Episode 70

Into New Rules for School

A football on the field in Stanford Stadium prior to an NCAA football game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Stanford Cardinal in Palo Alto on Nov. 30, 2019.

David Madison / Getty Images

Episode 69

Into a Game Changer

Senior Black Man Voting with a Mask

Adam Kaz / Getty Images

Episode 68

Into a Pivotal Election in a Wild Year

2019 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival - Day 4

Erika Goldring / Getty Images file

Episode 67

Into Gettin' Fonky with Wynton Marsalis

Image: Bun B

Courtesy Double Dose Entertainment

Episode 66

Into Bun B is Standing Up

Image: John Thompson

Jamie Squire / Getty Images file

Episode 65

Into More Than a Coach: John Thompson

Members of NFAC hold their firearms during a march on July 25, 2020 in Louisville, Ky. The group is marching in response to the killing of Breonna Taylor.

Episode 64

Into Black America's Call to Arms

Martin Luther King Jr.

Francis Miller / The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images

Episode 63

Into "I Have a Dream"

Image: Trtump Pence supporter

Dustin Chambers / Bloomberg via Getty Images file

Episode 62

Into Being a Black Trump Supporter

Protesters rally outside the home of USPS Board of Governors John M. Barger to decry recent cuts by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy that could affect presidential election mail-in ballots in San Marino, Calif., on Aug. 22, 2020

David McNew / Getty Images

Episode 61

Into the NAACP vs the Postal Service

Image: Joe Biden and Running Mate Kamala Harris Deliver Remarks In Delaware

Drew Angerer / Getty Images file

Episode 60

Into the DNC and Black Lives

Image: QAnon supporters wait for the military fly

Evelyn Hockstein / For The Washington Post via Getty Images file

Episode 59

Into the Rise of QAnon During the Pandemic

National Association of Colored Women, 1952

University of Southern California / Corbis via Getty Images

Episode 58

Into Black Women and the 19th Amendment

Coronavirus Pandemic Causes Climate Of Anxiety And Changing Routines In America

Justin Sullivan / Getty Images

Episode 57

Into Coronavirus and the Classroom: The Biggest Online Learning Experiment Ever

Image: Online learning due to COVID-19

RJ Sangosti / MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images file

Episode 56

Into Coronavirus and the Classroom: Teachers Swap Chalkboards for Apps

US-POLITICS-ELECTION-HARRIS-VOTE

Noah Berger / AFP via Getty Images

Episode 55

Into the V.P. Pick: Kamala Harris

Image: Indian father and daughter looking at computer

Jose Luis Pelaez Inc / Getty Images

Episode 54

Into Coronavirus and the Classroom: Parents Get Ready for School, At Home

Image: Unemployment protest

Joe Raedle / Getty Images file

Episode 53

Into the End of the $600 Unemployment Check

Image: Joy Reid on The ReidOut

Virginia Sherwood / NBC Universal

Episode 52

Into Joy Reid's Primetime Moment

Image\" Howard University graduation

Bill O'Leary / The Washington Post/Getty Images file

Episode 51

Into the Future of HBCUs

Image: Selma Bloody Sunday 50th Anniversary

Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images files

Episode 50

Morgan Freeman Reads the Last Words of John Lewis

Selma To Montgomery March Reaches Destination

Archive Photos/Hulton Archive / Getty Images

Episode 49

Into a New Voting Rights Act

Vulnerable

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Episode 48

Into Facing the Pandemic with a Disability

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Episode 47

Into the Trayvon Generation with Elizabeth Alexander

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Episode 46

Into the Federal Response to Chicago's Violence

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Episode 45

Into the Conservatives Against Trump

John Lewis At Montgomery State Capitol

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Episode 44

Into Remembering John Lewis

The State of Black America 2018

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Episode 43

Into Please Stop Talking to Me About Race

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Episode 42

Into the Philadelphia D.A.'s Office

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Episode 41

Into Jamaal Bowman's Insurgent Run

National Guard Called In As Protests And Unrest Erupt Across Los Angeles Causing Widespread Damage

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Episode 40

Into Police Chokeholds

Close-Up Of Ball On Sports Court

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Episode 39

Into the WNBA Bubble

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Episode 38

Into Resuming Federal Executions

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Episode 37

Into Black Trans Liberation

Protests Continue Over Richmond's Robert E. Lee Statue, After Judge Extends Injunction To Block Removal

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Episode 36

Into 'My Body is a Monument'

Essential Farm Workers Continue Work As Florida Agriculture Industry Struggles During Coronavirus Pandemic

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Episode 35

Into Protecting Florida Farmworkers

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Episode 34

Into a New Generation of Black Candidates

George Floyd's image is projected on the Robert E. Lee Monument on June 18, 2020 in Richmond, Va.

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Episode 33

Into Reparations with Nikole Hannah-Jones

Image: Protests Continue In Louisville Over Police Killings Of African Americans

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Episode 32

Into the Kentucky Primary

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Episode 31

Can You Hear Us Now: Juneteenth

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Episode 30

Into Coalition Building with Bishop Barber

A demonstrator holds a "Home Is Here" sign during a rally supporting the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) outside of the Supreme Court on Nov. 12, 2019.

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Episode 29

Into the Future of DREAMers

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Episode 28

Into the Killing of Rayshard Brooks

Memorial service for George Floyd - during Coronavirus pandemic

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Episode 27

Into Defunding the LAPD

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Episode 26

Into Protest and the NFL

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Episode 25

Into Religious Freedom v Public Health

Image: Frederick Douglass's Birthday Honored On Capitol Hill

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Episode 24

Into an American Uprising: James Clyburn on Lessons from History

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Episode 23

Into an American Uprising: Talking to Kids About Racism

Image: Clasp hands, Atlanta Protest Held In Response To Police Custody Death Of Minneapolis Man George Floyd

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Episode 22

Into an American Uprising: White Accountability

People hold up their fists after protesting near the spot where George Floyd died while in custody of the Minneapolis Police, on May 26, 2020 in Minneapolis

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Episode 21

Into an American Uprising: Can You Hear Us Now?

Image; Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., speaks outside of the Capitol on Feb. 1, 2017.

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Episode 20

Into an American Uprising: Keith Ellison on George Floyd's Death

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Episode 19

Into Delivering an Election

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Episode 18

Into Comedy in a Crisis with Michelle Buteau

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Episode 17

Into Joe Biden and the Women's Vote

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Episode 16

Into the Future of Flying

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Episode 15

Into Tracking Coronavirus in Nursing Homes

Episode 14

Into the Movement for Ahmaud Arbery

Owner and chef Anthony Caldwell looks out from 50Kitchen in the Field's Corner neighborhood of Boston on March 18, 2020.

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Episode 13

Into Mental Health and Lost Jobs

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Episode 12

Into the Team Racing Toward a Vaccine

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Episode 11

Into the Survival of Main Street

Stacey Abrams on April 23, 2019, in Atlanta.

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Episode 10

Into 2020 with Stacey Abrams

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Episode 9

Into Dirty Air

Episode 8

Into Music as a Lifeline

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Episode 7

Into an Outbreak Behind Bars

Episode 6

Into Life and Loss in a Pandemic

Episode 5

Into Coronavirus for the Uninsured

Episode 4

Into Democracy Delayed

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Episode 3

Into the Future of Lordstown, Ohio

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Episode 2

Into the Fight for Lindsey Graham's Seat

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