Disrupted
Fridays 9 AM & 8 PM, Sundays 2:00 PM, available as a podcast
Disruptions are all around us. Some spark joy and possibility. Others move us to take action and re-evaluate our world. Political scientist and host Khalilah Brown-Dean brings together changemakers to help us see the world differently and challenge us to grow together.
Listener Note: Starting the week of September 23, Disrupted will move from Wednesday at 2 PM to Friday at 9 AM.
Funding provided by:
The Connecticut Office of Film, Television and Digital Media
Latest Episodes
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This hour, Yale law professor James Forman Jr. talks about dismantling mass incarceration at every level, from policing to prisons to courts.
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Author Neema Avashia talks about growing up queer and Indian in Appalachia and poet Crystal Wilkinson tells us about her culinary heritage stretching back to her enslaved ancestors.
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Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley tells us about the connection between fascism and right-wing attacks on education.
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We talk with a gun violence expert who argues it's time for a new approach to preventing gun violence— one that looks at the culture of gun ownership in the U.S.
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Amy Tan tells us about her relationship to nature and journaling, from meditations on birds and mortality to her changing experience of racism to her former fear of sharks.
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In this hour of 'Disrupted,' Elizabeth Ito, creator of 'City of Ghosts,' discusses using people's real voices in her work, and Bethonie Butler talks about her book 'Black TV.'
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New Haven’s official historian, Michael Morand, doesn’t sugarcoat the past. This hour on Disrupted, we explore the histories of New Haven and Yale, including their roles in slavery.
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Listening to the news, it feels like there are more natural disasters than ever. This hour, we learn the climate science behind that and look at how the word disaster affects our thinking.
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In the lead up to the election, we are bringing you some highlights from the New Hampshire Public Radio series 'Civics 101.' This series will help answer some of the biggest questions about how our government works.
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This week on Disrupted, we dive deep into one of the wildest election cycles in recent history. Mother Jones editorial director Jamilah King gives her take on the 2024 election, and we hear about an organization that supports Black women in politics.
Funding provided by:
The Connecticut Office of Film, Television and Digital Media