Long-time Janenites Jules and Sofia take on adaptations of Jane Austen's work, one movie/Youtube series at a time. We'll be talking about all adaptations we can reasonably find for each book in chronological order of their publishing date. It'll be a wild ride with two die-hard fans! Catch us on Instagram as theaustenarchives, on Facebook as The Austen Archives, or on tumblr at theaustenarchives.tumblr.com Episodes drop every other Friday!
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Laura Allen (actor, producer) and Liv Austen (singer/songwriter, actor) talk to creatives who are right in the middle of creating their own unique careers. Hear an eclectic mix of guests speak openly and honestly about their exciting career highs, disheartening lows, and the amazing mess that is everything in between.
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Some of My Best Friends Are… is a podcast hosted by Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Ben Austen, two best friends who grew up together on the South Side of Chicago in the 1980s. Today a Harvard professor and an award-winning journalist, Khalil and Ben still go to each other to talk about their experiences with the absurdities and intricacies of race in America. In Some of My Best Friends Are..., they invite listeners into their unfiltered conversations about growing up together in a deeply-divided ...
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Obscured tells stories that unfold largely out of the public eye. Journalists Emily Previti and Stephanie Marudas cover critical issues that don’t get much attention in the media, reveal how these issues are complex and overshadowed and aim to cultivate understanding and explore potential solutions. Obscured is produced by Kouvenda Media and mixed by Brad Linder. The podcast features: • Original limited series that dive deep into an obscured issue • Conversational interview episodes with pol ...
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Ben is dropping back in the feed to bring you his new podcast from Audible Originals: The Parole Room. Will Johnnie Veal—convicted of the murder of two police officers in 1970—be granted parole after fifty years in prison? How can he convince the parole board he’s reformed when he insists he’s innocent? What is prison time even supposed to accompli…
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Exploring Life-Saving AI Tech with T-Mobile for Business
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How is 5G powering the use of AI to revolutionize life-saving solutions? Malcolm sits with T-Mobile for Business CMO Mo Katibeh, 3AM Innovations COO Ryan Litt, and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine's Dr. Azizi Seixas to find out in this special episode of Revisionist History. Brought to you in partnership with T-Mobile for Business,…
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Woke AF Daily Interview About Obscured
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We’re excited to share Woke AF Daily on our feed with Danielle Moodie powered by DCP Entertainment. The podcast explores the current political climate while waking people up to their power. As part of our From Words to Weapons series rollout, we were guests on Woke AF Daily. Special thanks to Woke AF Daily for having us on the show to talk about Fr…
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FWTW Ep 14: Series Wrap-up
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From Words to Weapons Episode 14 is the final episode in the series. It features a wrap-up conversation between Emily Previti and Stephanie Marudas. They discuss the series and reporting developments since the start of the series. Our deepest thanks to everyone who’s been listening! And if you have a moment, we'd greatly appreciate you sharing Obsc…
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Archival Ecologies: In the Burn Zone
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We’re excited to share Archival Ecologies with you! It’s an original audio series created and hosted by Jayme Collins, who’s a postdoctoral scholar at Princeton University’s High Meadows Environmental Institute. Archival Ecologies is produced by Blue Lab — an environmental media and storytelling group at Princeton led by Professor Allison Carruth. …
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FWTW Ep 13: Supporting Survivors of Violence
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From Words to Weapons Episode 13 features a panel discussion about supporting survivors of violence. The conversation focuses on how policy takes shape to support survivors of violence, how the definition of crime versus violence can affect whether someone qualifies for support, and the impact of the Victims of Crime Act or VOCA. The discussion als…
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On Being Biracial: Privileges & Pressures
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We’re excited to share On Being Biracial with you! On Being Biracial is about biracial experiences and identities in the United States and features more than thirty guests. The show is co-hosted by Daralyse Lyons and Malcolm Burnley, who are biracial journalists based in Philadelphia. Obscured’s Emily Previti worked with Daralyse and Malcolm on thi…
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FWTW Ep 12: Compensation and Care for the Exonerated
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From Words to Weapons Episode 12 features a panel discussion about compensation and care for people who’ve been wrongfully convicted. Our series covered this topic in the third episode about Chester Hollman III and the politics of wrongful conviction. If you haven’t heard it, we recommend listening to that episode as well. Obscured partnered with t…
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FWTW Ep 11: Harm Reduction & Law Enforcement Interactions Panel Discussion Part 2
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From Words to Weapons Episode 11 features Part 2 of a panel discussion about harm reduction in the context of interactions with law enforcement and solutions that could better promote community well-being and help mitigate mistrust. Obscured partnered with the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium and the Pennsylvania Action Coalition to hold the disc…
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FWTW Ep 10: Harm Reduction & Law Enforcement Interactions Panel Discussion Part 1
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From Words to Weapons Episode 10 features Part 1 of a panel discussion about harm reduction in the context of interactions with law enforcement and solutions that could better promote community well-being and help mitigate mistrust. Obscured partnered with the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium and the Pennsylvania Action Coalition to hold the disc…
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FWTW Ep 9: Parole and Mass Incarceration in the U.S. with Ben Austen
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From Words to Weapons Episode 9 focuses on the parole system and mass incarceration in the United States. Emily Previti and Stephanie Marudas talk with Chicago-based journalist Ben Austen. He’s written a new book, Correction: Parole, Prison and the Possibility of Change. Ben also is the author of High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American …
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How We Survive: The $80 Million Acre
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We’re excited to share How We Survive with you! How We Survive is a podcast from Marketplace that explores solutions to the climate crisis. This season, host Amy Scott investigates how people are adapting to the water crisis in the American West. The Colorado River feeds us and powers our lives by irrigating millions of acres of farmland, supportin…
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Bad Watchdog: The Missing Text Messages
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We’re excited to share Bad Watchdog with you! It’s produced by the Project on Government Oversight or POGO. Season 1 of Bad Watchdog tells the story of what happens when the person tasked with investigating one of the nation’s powerful agencies decides to look the other way. In episode 1, host Maren Machles takes us back to January 6, 2021, to the …
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FWTW Ep 8: Post-Incarceration Health Care & Navigating Mistrust with Divya Venkat
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From Words to Weapons Episode 8 delves into health care for returning citizens with Dr. Divya Venkat about how law enforcement trauma shows up in her patients and implementing a harm reduction care model. Divya is a physician and works for the Allegheny Health Network’s Center for Inclusion Health. Divya has treated both incarcerated and formerly i…
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FWTW Ep 7: Maija Anderson’s Story & Supporting Law Enforcement Trauma Survivors
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From Words to Weapons Episode 7 focuses on Maija Anderson’s story and her push to develop a treatment protocol for people after a law enforcement encounter. Maija has been working on developing a protocol for more than 20 years, with mixed success and support. Through Maija’s story and talking to other researchers and reformers for this episode, Em…
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FWTW Ep 6: County Jails, Mental Health & Accountability Barriers with Brett Sholtis
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From Words to Weapons Episode 6 focuses on how county jails treat people with mental health conditions. Emily Previti and Stephanie Marudas talk with Pennsylvania-based journalist Brett Sholtis, who investigated this issue in Pennsylvania, about what that looks like and obstacles he’s faced during his reporting. Brett investigated interactions betw…
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FWTW Ep 5: Hector Rivera’s Story, Inconsistent Accountability & Revamping Civilian Oversight
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On Episode 5 of the From Words to Weapons series, Hector Rivera shares his experiences of surviving police brutality and seeking accountability. His experiences point to the lack of an effective, uniform structure for police accountability in the United States. Instead, solutions – and outcomes – vary from city to city. And experts on law enforceme…
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FWTW Ep 4: Community Trauma Interventions with Arturo Zinny
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From Words to Weapons Episode 4 delves into community trauma interventions with Arturo Zinny. The conversation explores what takeaways there might be for people working to address law enforcement trauma and navigating relationships among institutions and communities with lived experience. There’s a small network of researchers and policy makers, ar…
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FWTW Ep 3: Chester Hollman III’s Story & the Politics of Wrongful Conviction
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From Words to Weapons Episode 3 focuses on Chester Hollman III, who spent nearly three decades in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, and the broader political fight over state-administered compensation for people who've been wrongfully convicted. A few years ago, Chester was the subject of a Netflix documentary; this episode picks up where that …
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FWTW Ep 2: Barriers to Accountability with Joanna Schwartz
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From Words to Weapons Episode 2 focuses on barriers to law enforcement accountability with Joanna Schwartz. Law enforcement accountability in the United States is complex and challenging, especially when it comes to trying to sue the police. On this episode, Emily Previti and Stephanie Marudas turn to UCLA Law Professor Joanna Schwartz, a leading e…
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FWTW Ep 1: Why Jimmy Warren Ran From Police
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In Episode 1 of the From Words to Weapons series, we begin with Jimmy Warren's story. It's the first time he's talking publicly about his gun case that made national headlines in 2016 when the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court overturned his conviction, ruling that police hadn't had reasonable suspicion to stop him in the first place. That decis…
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From Words to Weapons Preview: Limited Series Launch
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Fatal law enforcement encounters have understandably – and deservedly – captured our attention. But the tens of thousands of Americans who survive trauma inflicted by law enforcement every year are often overlooked. They go without the kind of support our systems offer to survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence and other forms of trauma. If …
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Banned Books: Intellectual Freedom in Prison
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Over the last several years, book bans across the United States have increased. But there’s been less attention paid to restrictions on the right to read within prisons and jails and perhaps even more so than before. As part of Banned Books Week, we're building on our previous reporting and bringing you the latest developments on the issue. If you …
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Introducing Obscured: Chasing Untold Stories
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On this introductory episode, meet Emily and Stephanie. They tell the story of how their journalism careers crisscrossed several times before their collaboration and what led them to launching this new podcast for underreported, complex issues missed by the daily news cycle. To stay up-to-date, make sure to subscribe to Obscured and Kouvenda Media’…
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Obscured tells stories that unfold largely out of the public eye. Journalists Emily Previti and Stephanie Marudas cover critical issues that don’t get much attention in the media, reveal how these issues are complex and overshadowed and aim to cultivate understanding and explore potential solutions. Obscured is produced by Kouvenda Media and mixed …
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Obscured tells stories that unfold largely out of the public eye. Journalists Emily Previti and Stephanie Marudas cover critical issues that don’t get much attention in the media, reveal how these issues are complex and overshadowed and aim to cultivate understanding and explore potential solutions. Obscured is produced by Kouvenda Media and mixed …
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Thank You For Being Some of Our Best Friends
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In the final episode of the show, Khalil and Ben talk with Chicago poet laureate avery r. young. He’s the multitalented interdisciplinary artist behind the podcast’s theme song, ‘Lil Lillie.’ They discuss the story behind the song and how racial justice influences his work. Ben and Khalil also reflect on their time working on this show. To check ou…
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Samantha Irby is Quietly Hostile & Raucously Funny
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Ben and Khalil get personal with author and TV writer Samantha Irby on this week's show. Her bestselling essay collections Wow, No Thank You and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life are super intimate, full of gory details, and laugh-out-loud funny. She joins Ben and Khalil to talk about her latest book, Quietly Hostile; how she uses comedy as therapy…
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The End of Affirmative Action
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The Supreme Court recently issued a decision banning race-conscious admission in higher education. In this episode, Ben and Khalil talk with Anurima Bhargava, who served in the Civil Rights Division of Obama’s Department of Justice focusing on education. Anurima also went to high school with Ben and Khalil at Kenwood Academy in Chicago. They talk a…
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Fantastic Future: Reimagining the American City
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This week, Ben and Khalil are talking about the future of cities. Their guest, Toni Griffin, is an architect, urban planner, and artist. She teaches at the Harvard School of Design, where she leads the Just City Lab, a team focused on community revitalization in city planning. Toni joins Ben and Khalil to talk about centering people in urban design…
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From The Last Archive: Acting Out
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Here’s a special episode from another Pushkin show we love -- The Last Archive. In the 1930s, at a women's reformatory in upstate New York, an upstart social scientist made a study that launched the field of social network analysis. It was revolutionary, but missed something happening at the same time at the same school, something we know now in pa…
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America’s Poverty is by Design
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America is the richest country on earth, and yet we have the highest levels of poverty of any advanced democracy. Why is that? And what should we do about it? Matthew Desmond joins Ben and Khalil to discuss the rousing arguments of his new book Poverty, By America: we are all culpable for this problem, and it’s on us to fix it. Additional links: Po…
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Ben and Khalil Go South
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Ben and Khalil take a trip down South to Sewanee University, otherwise known as the University of the South. The school’s history is rooted in the Confederacy, and Ben and Khalil look at how that history belongs to all of America. Through various conversations and excursions, they explore what it means to be Southern, whether that identity can be m…
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The FBI’s War on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. needs no introduction. The man changed the course of American history, and paid the ultimate price for his work. But in Jonathan Eig’s biography, King: A Life, we learn more about his personal life and struggle to overcome his own doubts about the Civil Rights movement. Eig joins Khalil and Ben to discuss his book and the…
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Immigrants Aren't the Problem
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Immigration in America is a humanitarian crisis and a political disaster. It has been for years. In this episode, Khalil and Ben talk to immigration lawyer, artist and activist Carolina Rubio-MacWright about current immigration policy, and what’s happening today in cities like Chicago and New York with ballooning populations of immigrants sent from…
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Jeff Sharlet started reporting from Donald Trump’s rallies in 2015, when his presidential campaign stoked a resurgence of white nationalism and white supremacy. Since then, Jeff has traveled the country exploring the growing threats and eruptions of political violence. He writes about these experiences in his New York Times bestselling book The Und…
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To the Hip Hop You Don’t Stop with Jelani Cobb
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Ben and Khalil are joined by their friend Jelani Cobb, Dean of Columbia Journalism School and New Yorker staff writer, to talk about 50 years of hip hop. They discuss what the music meant to them growing up in Chicago and New York. They talk about the documentary Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World, and also about how the music’s legacy …
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Ending the Cycle of Police Violence with Keith Ellison
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It’s been three years since George Floyd was murdered by the police. After a swell of action followed by inaction, an important question remains: What still needs to change to break the cycle of police violence in America? Khalil and Ben talk to Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison about prosecuting the officers who killed Floyd. The three also…
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Truth and Reconciliation: A Lesson from South Africa
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Khalil talks to Ben about a recent trip he took to South Africa and what America can learn from the country’s efforts to reckon with its racist past. Nearly 30 years after apartheid ended, reconciliation remains elusive and reparations are still unpaid. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…
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Why Can't We Be Friends?
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Friendships like Ben and Khalil's are rare in America, according to the numbers. In this episode, they talk about the social science on interracial friendships, and about the particular conditions that made their friendship possible. Plus, why these friendships are important in bridging our deeply divided country. See omnystudio.com/listener for pr…
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What’s Wrong with ‘You People’?
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Romance across race and religion has been the focus of a bunch of movies – some comedies, some dramas. Kenya Barris and Jonah Hill are taking a swing at it now, with their new movie, ‘You People.’ Ben and Khalil talk about its attempts to address the intricacies of a relationship between a Black, Muslim woman and a white, Jewish man. Is this a succ…
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Taking a Knee with Malcolm Gladwell
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Sports have always been political, despite what some fans might like to believe. So what role should athletes play in political movements? Malcolm Gladwell joins Ben and Khalil to discuss the history of activism in sports, including his recent podcast, Legacy of Speed, about Tommie Smith and John Carlos – two Black sprinters who raised their fists …
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From Started From the Bottom: How Charlamagne Turned Failure Into Success
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Here’s a special episode from a new Pushkin podcast, Started From the Bottom. Host Justin Richmond interviews successful people with humble origins who managed to scale the summit of success – people who grew up on the outside, people of color, people who weren’t part of the old boys’ network. Justin recently sat down with media firebrand Charlamag…
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Can Multiracial Adoption End Racism?
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Matthew Guterl is a historian of race and nation at Brown University, and also Khalil’s other white best friend. He joins the show to discuss his powerful new memoir, Skinfolk. It’s about his experience growing up in New Jersey during the 1970s, part of a large family with multiracial and adopted siblings. The three of them have a frank conversatio…
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The Jeffersons vs. Sanford & Son
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Ben and Khalil throw it back to the 1970s to talk about the TV shows they loved growing up – two of the greatest and most important sit-coms: Sanford & Son and The Jeffersons. They discuss how the shows handle race, class and comedy. And how the small screen and the world it reflects have changed since then. If you’d like to rewatch Sanford & Son o…
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Why We Love and Hate Hollywood
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Khalil and Ben go to the movies with the perfect partner: Jacqueline Stewart, the director and president of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. They talk about how movies shape our lives, and why representation matters… on the big screen and at awards shows (Oscars still so white). To learn more about the museum, visit their website: https://www…
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How to Write the Past & Future with Clint Smith
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Author and poet Clint Smith joins Ben and Khalil to talk about his new collection of poetry, “Above Ground.” They also discuss his previous book, “How the Word Is Passed,” a series of essays evaluating how America reckons with and memorializes slavery. To learn more about Clint Smith and order his books, go to his website: https://www.clintsmithiii…
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Kamala Harris for President?
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Jamal Simmons spent a year working as the communications director for Vice President Kamala Harris. In his first podcast interview since leaving the job, Jamal talks with Ben and Khalil about everything it takes to be vice president. What is the role of a VP? What challenges has Vice President Harris faced as the first woman of color to have the jo…
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Florida Man Attacks ‘Woke’ Curriculum
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis succeeded in stripping important ideas and essential people out of the new curriculum for the national Advanced Placement African American Studies course. Khalil and Ben discuss why people like DeSantis are working so hard to obscure parts of our history. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…
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Is a New Rainbow Coalition of Voters Possible?
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Legendary Chicago Mayor Harold Washington is the subject of a new documentary called “Punch 9 for Harold Washington.” In this week’s episode, Ben and Khalil discuss the legacy of the city’s first Black mayor. They are also joined by Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez, a Chicago alderwoman, who is working to revive a multi-racial alliance of progressive vote…
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