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#003: The "Recorded Before Certain Events in Baltimore" Episode Apr 28, 2015

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Hosts Baratunde Thurston, Raquel Cepeda, and Tanner Colby discuss the first season of ABC’s ‘Fresh off the Boat’; the complicated politics of whites adopting racial identities that are not their own; and the social media phenomenon of the Dixon Challenge. Find more at http://www.showaboutrace.com/.

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#002: The "Could Black Lives Maybe Start to Matter Just a Little Bit?" Episode Apr 14, 2015

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Hosts Baratunde Thurston, Raquel Cepeda, and Tanner Colby discuss the shooting of Walter Scott in South Carolina, the colorism debate surrounding Kendrick Lamar's fiancee, and the laughable attempts of Mindy Kaling's brother to use affirmative action to get into medical school. Find more at http://www.showaboutrace.com/.

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#001: The “Hey Starbucks, Will You Sponsor Us?” Episode Mar 31, 2015

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Hosts Baratunde Thurston, Raquel Cepeda, and Tanner Colby discuss the Starbucks “Race Together” fiasco; the issues of race, class, and identity raised in This American Life’s “Three Miles” episode; and the ongoing debate over black celebrities and “The New Black.”

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Promo: Our National Conversation About Conversations About Race Feb 25, 2015

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Authors Baratunde Thurston, Raquel Cepeda and Tanner Colby host a lively multiracial, interracial conversation about the ways we can’t talk, don’t talk, would rather not talk, but intermittently, fitfully, embarrassingly do talk about culture, identity, politics, power, and privilege in our pre-post-yet-still-very-racial America.

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