Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Emmy Award—winning producer, actor, and comedian Larry Wilmore is back on the air, hosting a podcast where he weighs in on the issues of the week and interviews guests in the worlds of politics, entertainment, culture, sports, and beyond.

267 episodes • 0 archived •

Tara Palmeri on ‘Somebody’s Gotta Win’ and ‘The Red Letter’

April 5

1h 1m

Alex Isenstadt on ‘Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump's Return to Power’

March 29

59 mins

Krys Marshall on ‘Paradise’

March 22

1h 13m

George & Teddy Kunhardt on ‘Becoming Katharine Graham’

March 3

1h 5m

Thomas Chatterton Williams on "How the Woke Right Replaced the Woke Left"

February 23

1h 7m

Roy Wood Jr. on ‘Lonely Flowers’ and ‘Have I Got News for You’

February 8

1h 6m

Juanita Tolliver on ‘A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics’

January 26

1h 1m

Laura Coates on ‘Laura Coates Live’

January 19

1h 4m

RaMell Ross on ‘Nickel Boys’

January 11

1h 8m

Alan Zweibel on the Early Days of ‘Saturday Night Live’

Dec 22, 2024

1h 5m

Emily Chang on ‘Posthuman’ and ‘The Circuit’

Dec 7, 2024

56 mins

Timothy Shenk on ‘Left Adrift: What Happened to Liberal Politics’

Nov 25, 2024

1h 11m

S.E. Cupp on ‘Off the Cupp’

Nov 17, 2024

1h 25m

Samantha Bee and Joanna Coles on ‘The Daily Beast Podcast’

Nov 2, 2024

1h 2m

Craig Unger on ‘Den of Spies: Reagan, Carter, and the Secret History of the Treason That Stole the White House’

Oct 27, 2024

1h 1m

Nate Silver on “On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything”

Oct 20, 2024

1h 22m

Yuval Noah Harari on ‘Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI’

Oct 5, 2024

1h 29m

Abby Phillip on ‘NewsNight with Abby Phillip’

Sep 21, 2024

59 mins

Will Packer on ‘Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist’

Sep 14, 2024

1h 18m

Sophia Cai on the DNC

Aug 24, 2024

1h 12m

Langston Kerman on ‘Bad Poetry’

Aug 17, 2024

1h 10m

Marion Jones on the Olympics and Driven Inc.

Aug 10, 2024

1h 9m

Governor Wes Moore on the Democratic Party and Kamala Harris

Jul 27, 2024

46 mins

Scott Galloway on ‘The Algebra of Wealth’

Jul 21, 2024

1h 23m

Colman Domingo on ‘Sing Sing’

Jul 13, 2024

58 mins

Bill Maher on 'What This Comedian Said Will Shock You'

Jun 22, 2024

1h 21m

Janine Sherman Barrois on ‘The Big Cigar’

Jun 15, 2024

57 mins

Stephen Merchant on ‘The Outlaws’

Jun 8, 2024

1h 2m

Rep. Ro Khanna on the Israel-Gaza Conflict, Big Tech, Culture Politics, and More!

May 4, 2024

57 mins

Bakari Sellers on ‘The Moment: Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn't and How We All Can Move Forward Now’

Apr 27, 2024

59 mins

Tiffany Cross on ‘ACross Generations’ and ‘Native Land Pod’

Apr 20, 2024

1h 23m

Ed Zwick on ‘Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood’

Apr 6, 2024

1h 5m

It’s a Listener Mailbag Episode!

Mar 31, 2024

1 hr

Taylor Lorenz on ‘Power User’

Mar 23, 2024

1h 6m

Antonia Hylton on ‘Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum’

Mar 2, 2024

1h 10m

Andrew Roberts on ‘The Creator’

Feb 17, 2024

1h 5m

Cord Jefferson on ‘American Fiction’

Feb 11, 2024

1h 1m

David Hemingson on ‘The Holdovers’

Feb 4, 2024

1h 11m

Rob Reiner on 'Who Killed JFK?'

Jan 20, 2024

1h 3m

Tina Nguyen on 'The MAGA Diaries: My Surreal Journey Into the Heart of the Alt-Right and How I Got Out.'

Jan 8, 2024

1h 6m

Reginald Hudlin on ‘Candy Cane Lane’

Dec 23, 2023

1h 23m

Donie O'Sullivan on ‘Waiting for JFK: Reporting From the Fringe’

Dec 16, 2023

1h 18m

Remembering Norman Lear

Dec 9, 2023

43 mins

David Brooks on ‘How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen’

Nov 21, 2023

1h 18m

Kevin Smith and Matt Campbell on the Denver Film Festival

Nov 11, 2023

1h 5m

Errol Morris on ‘The Pigeon Tunnel’

Nov 4, 2023

59 mins

Viet Thanh Nguyen on ‘A Man of Two Faces’

Oct 28, 2023

55 mins

Wendy Zukerman on ‘Science Vs.’

Oct 14, 2023

1h 19m

Dave Weigel on Semafor, Politics, and More

Oct 7, 2023

1h 20m

Michael Harriot on ‘Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America’

Sep 23, 2023

1h 5m

Yvonne Orji on ‘Bamboozled by Jesus: How God Tricked Me into the Life of My Dreams’

Sep 16, 2023

1h 20m

Noel King on ‘Today, Explained: Blame Capitalism’

Sep 9, 2023

1h 4m

Kara Swisher on ‘Pivot’ and ‘On With Kara Swisher’

Aug 26, 2023

1h 1m

Brian Raftery on ‘Do We Get to Win This Time?’

Aug 19, 2023

1h 15m

Jake Tapper on ‘All the Demons Are Here: A Thriller’

Aug 5, 2023

59 mins

Kylie Flanagan on ‘Climate Resilience: How We Keep Each Other Safe, Care for Our Communities, and Fight Back Against Climate Change’

Jul 29, 2023

46 mins

Dr. Aomawa Shields on ‘Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe’

Jul 22, 2023

1h 10m

Sally Jenkins on ‘The Right Call: What Sports Teach Us About Work and Life’

Jul 8, 2023

1h 6m

Numa Perrier on ‘The Perfect Find’

Jul 1, 2023

1h 2m

‘The Simpsons’ Writer Mike Reiss on the Titan Tragedy

Jun 24, 2023

56 mins

Larry Wilmore on the Listener Mailbag!

Jun 11, 2023

56 mins

Audie Cornish on ‘The Assignment With Audie Cornish’

Jun 3, 2023

1h 17m

Rainn Wilson on ‘Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss’ and More!

May 27, 2023

56 mins

Marcel Spears on ‘Fat Ham’

May 13, 2023

1h 1m

Scott Carter on ‘Ye Gods! With Scott Carter’

Apr 29, 2023

1h 3m

Katie Porter on ‘I Swear: Politics is Messier Than My Minivan’

Apr 22, 2023

1h 27m

Tracy McMillan on ‘UnPrisoned’

Apr 15, 2023

1h 11m

Tracee Ellis Ross on 'I Am America'

Apr 1, 2023

1h 2m

Anthony Chin-Quee on 'I Can't Save You: A Memoir'

Mar 25, 2023

1h 4m

Ike Barinholtz on 'History of the World Part II'

Mar 18, 2023

59 mins

Theresa Runstedtler on 'Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA'

Mar 5, 2023

1h 3m

Henry Louis Gates Jr. on 'Finding Your Roots'

Feb 26, 2023

1h 17m

Mark Whitaker on 'Saying It Loud: 1966—The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement'

Feb 11, 2023

1h 9m

Craig Mazin on 'The Last of Us'

Feb 5, 2023

1h 13m

Jon Lovett on Crooked Media, Politics, and More

Jan 28, 2023

1h 1m

Van Lathan Jr. on ‘Fat, Crazy, and Tired: Tales From the Trenches of Transformation’

Jan 21, 2023

1h 20m

Mina Kimes on Damar Hamlin, the State of the NFL, and Much More

Jan 7, 2023

1h 19m

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins on 'Kindred'

Dec 18, 2022

1h 12m

Phil Rosenthal on 'Somebody Feed Phil'

Dec 10, 2022

1h 45m

Cari Champion on 'The Cari Champion Show' and Much More

Dec 4, 2022

1h 2m

Elvis Mitchell on 'Is That Black Enough For You?!?'

Nov 20, 2022

1h 19m

Nelson George on 'Say Hey, Willie Mays!'

Nov 13, 2022

1h 18m

Jon Meacham on 'And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle'

Nov 7, 2022

1h 26m

Fisher Stevens and Karim Amer on 'The Lincoln Project'

Oct 22, 2022

1h 8m

Travon Free on '38 at the Garden'

Oct 16, 2022

1h 17m

Kerry Washington and Raamla Mohamed on 'Reasonable Doubt'

Oct 8, 2022

1h 15m

Sheryl Lee Ralph on 'Abbott Elementary'

Sep 25, 2022

1h 20m

Andy Borowitz on 'Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber'

Sep 18, 2022

1h 22m

Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein on 'The U.S. and the Holocaust'

Sep 11, 2022

57 mins

Regina Hall on 'Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul'

Aug 27, 2022

47 mins

Jessica Gao on 'She-Hulk: Attorney at Law'

Aug 20, 2022

1h 6m

Mike Birbiglia on ‘The Old Man and the Pool’

Aug 13, 2022

1h 5m

Tim Miller on 'Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell’

Jul 30, 2022

1h 1m

B.J. Novak on 'Vengeance'

Jul 24, 2022

59 mins

Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi on 'For All Mankind'

Jul 16, 2022

1 hr

Baratunde Thurston On 'America Outdoors'

Jul 2, 2022

1h 16m

David Frankel on 'Jerry & Marge Go Large'

Jun 19, 2022

1h 1m

James Burrows on 'Directed by James Burrows: Five Decades of Stories from the Legendary Director of Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, and More'

Jun 12, 2022

1h 22m

Judd Apatow on 'George Carlin's American Dream'

May 21, 2022

59 mins

Alexis McGill Johnson on Roe v. Wade

May 14, 2022

54 mins

Barry Levinson on 'The Survivor'

May 8, 2022

1h 13m

John Heilemann on Politics and 'The Circus'

May 1, 2022

1h 28m

Chris Fabricant on 'Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System'

Apr 17, 2022

1h 15m

Bomani Jones on 'Game Theory'

Apr 10, 2022

1h 15m

Rodney Barnes on 'Winning Time'

Mar 27, 2022

1h 7m

Julia Ioffe on Ukraine

Mar 20, 2022

59 mins

Stanley Nelson on 'Attica'

Mar 13, 2022

50 mins

Roy Wood Jr. on 'The Daily Show' and 'Imperfect Messenger'

Mar 6, 2022

1h 21m

James Curtis on 'Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life'

Feb 20, 2022

1h 28m

Reinaldo Marcus Green on 'King Richard'

Feb 6, 2022

1h 21m

W. Kamau Bell on 'We Need To Talk About Cosby'

Jan 23, 2022

1h 12m

John McWhorter on 'Woke Racism'

Jan 16, 2022

57 mins

Prentice Penny on 'Insecure'

Jan 9, 2022

1h 32m

Mariana van Zeller on 'Trafficked'

Dec 19, 2021

1h 3m

Lizz Winstead on Comedy and Activism

Dec 13, 2021

1h 23m

Bill Simmons on Pop Culture and Sports

Dec 5, 2021

1h 25m

Jabez Olssen on 'Get Back' and the Beatles

Nov 21, 2021

1h 25m

Bob Costas on Baseball and Broadcasting

Nov 14, 2021

1h 30m

David Copperfield on the Past, Present and Future of Magic

Oct 31, 2021

1h 25m

Adam Schiff on ‘Midnight In Washington’

Oct 23, 2021

1h 18m

Jay Ellis and Walter Thompson-Hernández on Giving A Voice to Young Incarcerated Writers

Oct 17, 2021

1h 11m

Joshua Jay on ‘How Magicians Think’

Oct 2, 2021

1h 9m

Craig Whitlock on America’s Failure in Afghanistan

Sep 25, 2021

1h 24m

The Life and Legacy of Muhammad Ali With Ken Burns

Sep 19, 2021

1h 26m

Tarana Burke on ‘Unbound’ and Creating the Me Too Movement

Sep 11, 2021

1h 30m

LZ Granderson Being A Black, Gay Man, Progress in the Sports World, and Athlete Activism

Jul 24, 2021

1h 30m

Michael Pollan on Changing How We Think About Psychedelics

Jul 17, 2021

1h 17m

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi on ‘Be Antiracist’

Jul 10, 2021

1h 18m

Wayne Federman on ‘The History of Stand-Up’

Jul 4, 2021

1h 32m

Sam Jay on ‘PAUSE with Sam Jay’

Jun 19, 2021

1h 12m

Helen Hunt on ‘Blindspotting’

Jun 12, 2021

1h 4m

Wanda Sykes on ‘The Upshaws’ and Getting Her Start in Stand-Up Comedy

Jun 5, 2021

1h 5m

Barry Jenkins on ‘The Underground Railroad’

May 22, 2021

1h 17m

David Oyelowo on Why He Decided to Create the Movies That He Wants to See

May 15, 2021

1h 15m

Malcolm Gladwell on ‘The Bomber Mafia’

May 8, 2021

1h 8m

Robin Thede on ‘A Black Lady Sketch Show,’ and W. Kamau Bell on ‘United Shades of America’

Apr 25, 2021

1h 45m

Willie Geist on Hosting ‘Morning Joe’ and ‘Sunday Today’

Apr 17, 2021

1h 12m

Travon Free on ‘Two Distant Strangers,' and Andra Day on ‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday'

Apr 10, 2021

1h 21m

Soledad O’Brien on ‘Disrupt and Dismantle’

Mar 27, 2021

1h 5m

Don Lemon on ‘This Is the Fire’ and James Baldwin’s Influence

Mar 20, 2021

1h 9m

Walter Isaacson on the Amazements and Ethics of Gene Editing

Mar 13, 2021

1h 14m

Lee Daniels on Furthering the Legacy of Billie Holiday With 'The United States vs. Billie Holiday'

Feb 27, 2021

1h 6m

Charles Blow on His Black Manifesto of Great Migration Back to the South

Feb 21, 2021

1h 8m

Kenny and Keith Lucas on ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’

Feb 13, 2021

59 mins

Stephen A Smith on ‘Stephen A’s World,’ Hank Aaron, and More

Jan 30, 2021

1h 14m

Fran Lebowitz on ‘Pretend It’s a City’

Jan 23, 2021

1h 27m

Sam Pollard on 'MLK/FBI'

Jan 16, 2021

1h 18m

Fred Claire on ‘Extra Innings’

Jan 3, 2021

1h 14m

Ed Dwight on Becoming the First Black Astronaut That Almost Was

Dec 26, 2020

2h 2m

Director Steve McQueen on Creating ‘Small Axe’

Dec 20, 2020

1h 6m

Walter Mosley on ‘MasterClass,’ Becoming a Writer, and the Importance of Language

Dec 6, 2020

1h 14m

Ken Kwapis on ‘But What I Really Want to Do is Direct’

Nov 28, 2020

1h 14m

Fareed Zakaria on ‘Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World’

Nov 21, 2020

59 mins

Cornell Belcher on Joe Biden Winning the 2020 Presidential Election

Nov 7, 2020

1h 2m

Nate Silver on Election Polls and Forecasting the 2020 Presidential Election

Oct 31, 2020

1h 11m

Governor Andrew Cuomo on ‘American Crisis’ and Governing in a Pandemic

Oct 24, 2020

1h 4m

Rick Wilson on the Lincoln Project and President Trump's Failing Campaign for Re-Election

Oct 11, 2020

1h 1m

Ari Berman on Mail-in Ballots and Voter Suppression

Oct 4, 2020

1h 9m

Bakari Sellers on the Breonna Taylor Case and America's Flawed Justice System

Sep 27, 2020

1h 7m

Ben Rhodes on ‘Missing America’ and Working Under the Obama Administration

Sep 12, 2020

1h 8m

Brian Stelter on ‘Hoax’ and Fox News’s Influence on President Trump

Aug 31, 2020

1h 6m

Erin Brockovich on ‘Superman’s Not Coming’ and the Nation’s Water Crisis

Aug 22, 2020

1h 4m

Isabel Wilkerson on the Caste Systems That We Currently Live In

Aug 8, 2020

54 mins

Bill Simmons on the Return of the NBA

Jul 31, 2020

1h 17m

Al Roker on Broadcasting From Home and What He Has Learned From Over 40 Years in the Industry

Jul 25, 2020

1h 11m

Don Cheadle on Over 30 Years of Acting, Producing, and Activism

Jul 10, 2020

54 mins

Remembering Comedic Legend Carl Reiner, 1922–2020

Jul 1, 2020

1 hr

James McBride on Covering Music Legends and the Power of Fiction Writing

Jun 26, 2020

1 hr

Michael Lewis on the Many Risks of a Donald Trump Presidency

Jun 20, 2020

59 mins

Nikole Hannah-Jones on George Floyd and the History of Systemic Racism in America

Jun 12, 2020

58 mins

Thoughts on George Floyd and the Virus of Racism in America

Jun 2, 2020

11 mins

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The Tragedy of Ahmaud Arbery, and Uzo Aduba on Portraying Shirley Chisholm | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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May 8, 2020

57 mins

E93

David Chang on What Makes Restaurants Too Small to Fail | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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May 1, 2020

54 mins

E92

Politics in the Time of COVID-19 and Ed Gordon on Being Black While Broadcasting | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Apr 10, 2020

1h 16m

E91

Life During the Coronavirus, and a Conversation With Conor Dougherty About the Complexities of the Housing Crisis | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Mar 19, 2020

1h 27m

E90

How We Got to This Point in the Democratic Primary With Pod Save America’s Dan Pfeiffer | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Mar 6, 2020

1h 16m

E89

Entrepreneurship, Community, and Black Excellence with Dr. Lakeysha Hallmon | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Feb 28, 2020

46 mins

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Lester Holt on Being the Voice of 'Nightly News' | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Feb 21, 2020

1h 14m

E87

Stacey Abrams on the Fight for Fair Elections | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Feb 10, 2020

1h 19m

E86

Remembering Kobe Bryant, and Nina Turner on the Moment Before the Iowa Caucuses | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Jan 31, 2020

49 mins

E85

What the Democrats Need to Do to Win in 2020 With Jon Favreau | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Jan 16, 2020

1h 13m

E84

A Mailbag With Bill Simmons and Pete Aronson on Breaking Into the Entertainment Industry and ‘The Bernie Mac Show’ | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Dec 5, 2019

1h 44m

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Malcolm Nance on 'The Plot to Betray America' | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Nov 21, 2019

1h 21m

E82

Edward Norton on the 20-Year Journey to Making 'Motherless Brooklyn' | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Nov 14, 2019

1h 16m

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Susan Rice on the Obama Years | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Oct 18, 2019

1h 16m

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Jemele Hill on the Places Where Sports and Politics Collide | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Oct 10, 2019

1h 25m

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George F. Will on the Future of Conservatism After Donald Trump (Live) | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Oct 3, 2019

1h 19m

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Malcolm Gladwell on 'Talking to Strangers' (Live) | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Sep 19, 2019

1h 21m

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Reactions to the Third Democratic Debate and Ken Burns Takes Us Back in Time | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Sep 13, 2019

1h 29m

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Brian Grazer on Growing Up With Dyslexia, Making Movies, and the Importance of Human Connection | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Sep 5, 2019

1h 15m

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Diallo Riddle and Bashir Salahuddin on What it Takes to Break Into TV | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Aug 22, 2019

1h 23m

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Author Isha Sesay on the ‘Bring Back Our Girls’ Campaign, Five Years Later | Larry Wilmore Black on the Air

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Aug 15, 2019

1h 20m

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Robin Thede on Being the Only Black Woman in Late Night and the Creation of ‘A Black Lady Sketch Show’ | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Aug 8, 2019

1h 11m

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The Current State of Political Journalism With Former CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jessica Yellin | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Jul 18, 2019

59 mins

E71

Ira Madison III Tells Us How to “Keep It” | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Jul 11, 2019

1h 10m

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Cory Booker Makes His Case for the Presidency | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Jul 4, 2019

1h 16m

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Jim Acosta on Reporting on Donald Trump's White House (Live) | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Jun 24, 2019

1h 11m

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A Conversation About the Conservative Movement and Politics With Ben Shapiro | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Jun 13, 2019

1h 9m

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Jordan Klepper on Bringing Earnestness Back Into His Comedy | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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May 30, 2019

1h 13m

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Rebecca Traister on the Fight for Reproductive Rights | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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May 23, 2019

1h 9m

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Michael Lewis on the Referees You Encounter Outside of Sports | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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May 16, 2019

1h 9m

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Desus and Mero on Breaking the Late-Night Mold | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Apr 25, 2019

1h 3m

E63

Being a Generalist Versus a Specialist With David Epstein | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Apr 11, 2019

1h 2m

E62

The Writers Guild of America Fight With Travon Free | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Apr 1, 2019

1h 10m

E61

Bill Simmons on LeBron’s Legacy, Mental Illness in the NBA, and ‘Leaving Neverland’ | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Mar 7, 2019

1h 16m

E60

Breaking Down the Jussie Smollett Case With Van Lathan | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air (Ep. 60)

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Feb 21, 2019

1h 14m

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Madeleine Albright on Fighting Fascism (Live) | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air (Ep. 59)

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Feb 8, 2019

1h 26m

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Jason Rezaian on Life After Imprisonment in Iran | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air (Ep. 58)

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Feb 2, 2019

1h 8m

E57

How Pete Holmes Turned His Life Into Comedy With ‘Crashing’ | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air (Ep. 57)

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Jan 24, 2019

1h 20m

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Wrapping up 2018 With Tommy Alter | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air (Ep. 56)

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Dec 20, 2018

58 mins

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Tracee Ellis Ross Wants to Show Up for Something Bigger Than Herself | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air (Ep. 55)

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Nov 9, 2018

1h 10m

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Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin Looks to the Presidents of the Past to Understand the Politics of Today | Larry Wilmore (Ep. 54)

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Oct 26, 2018

1h 21m

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Gender and Privilege With ‘Transparent’ Creator Jill Soloway | Larry Wilmore (Ep. 53)

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Oct 11, 2018

1h 11m

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Nancy Pelosi Says “Trump Is Trying to Break the #MeToo Movement” | Larry Wilmore (Ep. 52)

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Oct 2, 2018

1h 6m

E51

Cosby, Kavanaugh and Black Republicans, Oh My | Larry Wilmore (Ep. 51)

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Sep 27, 2018

44 mins

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Eric Holder on the Chaos Inside the White House and the Importance of November | Larry Wilmore (Ep. 50)

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Sep 13, 2018

1h 24m

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GOP Strategist Rick Wilson on How Republicans Got Here | Larry Wilmore (Ep. 49)

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Aug 23, 2018

59 mins

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Authenticity in Politicians, and What Young Voters Want with Jason Kander | Black On The Air (Ep.48)

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Aug 17, 2018

49 mins

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Bill Simmons Talks Politics, Conspiracies, and Legacies | Larry Wilmore (Ep. 47)

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Aug 9, 2018

1h 18m

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Ibtihaj Muhammad’s Unlikely American Dream | Larry Wilmore (Ep. 46)

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Jul 19, 2018

1h 15m

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Travon Free Tells His Story | Larry Wilmore (Ep. 45)

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Jul 12, 2018

1h 10m

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Roy Hibbert on LeBron James, Rajon Rondo, and the New Lakers | Larry Wilmore (Ep. 44)

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Jul 3, 2018

55 mins

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Mike Pesca Debates the Greatest Sports What-Ifs | Larry Wilmore (Ep. 43)

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Jun 28, 2018

1h 8m

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Senator Tim Kaine on President Trump’s Failures on Immigration | Larry Wilmore (Ep. 42)

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Jun 21, 2018

51 mins

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Nell Scovell and Breaking Into the Hollywood Boys' Club | Larry Wilmore (Ep. 41)

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Jun 7, 2018

1h 2m

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Reliving the Greatest Moments of 'The Americans' With Executive Producer Joel Fields | Larry Wilmore (Ep. 40)

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May 31, 2018

1h 4m

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Gabrielle Union Doesn’t Hold Back | Larry Wilmore (Ep. 39)

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May 17, 2018

1h 4m

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Jake Tapper on Idealizing Our Political Past and Improving Our Political Future | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air (Ep. 38)

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May 10, 2018

1h 3m

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Washington Governor Jay Inslee on Combatting Trump and Climate Change | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air (Ep. 37)

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Apr 26, 2018

1h 22m

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Love and Relationships in the Digital Age with Joanna Coles of Hearst Magazines | Larry Wilmore (Ep.36)

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Apr 19, 2018

1h 18m

E35

NBA Stories and Listener Questions With Roy Hibbert | Larry Wilmore (Ep. 35)

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Apr 12, 2018

1h 8m

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Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. and Courtney B. Vance on Working With Legends | Larry Wilmore (Ep. 34)

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Apr 4, 2018

1h 20m

E17

Eating Well and Making Hit TV Shows With 'Everybody Loves Raymond' Creator Phil Rosenthal | Larry Wilmore (Ep. 33)

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Mar 15, 2018

1h 17m

E18

Forest Whitaker Displays His Range as an Actor and Philanthropist | Larry Wilmore (Ep. 32)

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Mar 8, 2018

1h 13m

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Katie Couric and the Difficulties of Dialogue in These Times | Larry Wilmore (Ep. 31)

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Feb 22, 2018

1h 14m

E17

Tessa Thompson Is What the Future of Sci-Fi Looks Like | Larry Wilmore (Ep. 30)

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Feb 15, 2018

1h 21m

E29

‘Moneyball’ author Michael Lewis on How to Get Invited to Steve Bannon’s House and More | Larry Wilmore (Ep. 29)

E29·

Feb 8, 2018

1h 3m

E28

David Frum’s Theory of ‘Trumpocracy’ | Larry Wilmore (Ep. 28)

E28·

Feb 3, 2018

1h 20m

E18

Stories From ‘Get Out,’ ‘The West Wing,’ and ‘The Post’ With Bradley Whitford (Ep. 27)

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Jan 18, 2018

1h 11m

E17

Jeffrey Toobin and the Breakneck Speed of Breaking News (Ep. 26)

E17·

Jan 11, 2018

59 mins

E25

The Best of Larry Wilmore, With Neil deGrasse Tyson, Issa Rae, and Malcolm Gladwell (Ep. 25)

E25·

Dec 28, 2017

47 mins

E17

Ezra Klein and the Need for Explanatory Journalism (Ep. 24)

E17·

Dec 21, 2017

1h 15m

E17

Dan Rather Keeps It 100 (Ep. 23)

E17·

Dec 7, 2017

1h 19m

E17

Judd Apatow's Unwavering Love of Comedy (Ep. 22)

E17·

Nov 30, 2017

1h 3m

E18

Daveed Diggs on How to Get by Till You Win a Tony Award (Ep. 21)

E18·

Nov 22, 2017

1h 13m

E17

Old Showbiz Stories with Carl Reiner (Ep. 20)

E17·

Nov 9, 2017

1h 5m

E17

Taking a Stand Against Sexual Harassment With Gretchen Carlson (Ep. 19)

E17·

Oct 26, 2017

1h 1m

E18

Ta-Nehisi Coates and Understanding Racial Disparity (Ep. 18)

E18·

Oct 19, 2017

1h 3m

E17

The Mailbag Episode (Ep. 17)

E17·

Oct 13, 2017

36 mins

E17

Michael Bennett on the Importance of Activism and Being a Historian (Ep. 16)

E17·

Oct 8, 2017

47 mins

E15

The Fight for Reproductive Rights With Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards (Ep. 15)

E15·

Sep 25, 2017

53 mins

E14

Live From the Now Hear This Festival With Robin Thede of ‘The Rundown’ (Ep. 14)

E14·

Sep 12, 2017

1h 27m

Pod Save America’s Jon Lovett and Jon Favreau Reflect on Crafting Political Messages With President Obama (Ep. 13)

Sep 7, 2017

1h 11m

The Fight for Equality With Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian of ‘The Young Turks’ (Ep. 12)

Aug 31, 2017

1h 10m

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Charlottesville, Racism, and Athlete Activism (Ep. 11)

Aug 16, 2017

53 mins

Bill Maher on Political Correctness, the Power of an Apology, and What the Democratic Party Should Do Next (Ep. 10)

Aug 10, 2017

1h 1m

Issa Rae on the ‘Hoe Phase’ and Finding Her Voice (Ep. 10)

Aug 3, 2017

1 hr

Malcolm Gladwell on Pioneers, Tokens, and ‘The Satire Paradox’ (Ep. 9)

Jul 20, 2017

1h 6m

Senator Al Franken and Comedy's Relationship to Politics (Ep. 8)

Jul 13, 2017

47 mins

The Complexities of Celebrating the Fourth of July, and Bassem Youssef on the Power of Satire for Social Change (Ep. 7)

Jul 6, 2017

1h 7m

The Situation in North Korea, Patriotism vs. Criticism, and Kumail Nanjiani on Arranged Marriages and ‘The Big Sick’ (Ep. 6)

Jun 22, 2017

1h 12m

Let’s Stop Giving Propaganda a Platform, and ESPN’s Cari Champion on Women and Politics in Sports and Broadcasting (Ep. 5)

Jun 15, 2017

1h 10m

The N-Word, a Formula for Detecting Bullshit, and Charlamagne Tha God on ‘Black Privilege’ (Ep. 4)

Jun 8, 2017

1h 1m

Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Absence of Curiosity, Sounding Black, and Why Astrophysics Is His Calling (Ep. 3)

May 25, 2017

1h 7m

Cosby Resurfaces, Trump’s Three Degrees of Lying, and Bernie Sanders on the Polarization of America (Ep. 2)

May 18, 2017

49 mins

Trump’s Casual Lying and Norman Lear on Creating Socially Impactful Television (Ep. 1)

May 11, 2017

50 mins

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May 9, 2017

1 min

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