Everyone’s Doing the South with Tressie McMillan Cottom

What's underneath the rest of the country treating the South as backward? Sociologist and New York Times contributor Tressie McMillan Cottom argues it's a ruse to help Americans avoid reckoning with their own faults. It also erases the massive contributions the South made to turn the US into a global superpower. A conversation about race, Southern identity, and American history with host Aisha Nyandoro.

What is Bless Your Heart?

Bless Your Heart is a Southern expression. It sounds sweet on the surface, but it’s really our way of saying you’ve got it completely wrong. Hosted by Aisha Nyandoro, CEO of Springboard to Opportunities and architect of the longest-running guaranteed income program in the U.S., each episode is a deep conversation with a guest who helps set the record straight. This season we’re challenging everything you think you know about the South.