{"podcast":{"title":"Think from KERA","slug":"think-from-kera-875208","podcast_index_feed_id":875208,"rss_url":"http://feeds.kera.org/KERA-Think","website_url":"http://www.kera.org/think","image_url":"https://f.prxu.org/140/images/54881abf-408a-4274-9485-3386b9bda683/1121_Think_1400x1400_gradient.jpg","author":"KERA (Maggie.Gourville@prx.org)","episode_count":100,"summary":"Think is a daily, topic-driven interview and call-in program hosted by Krys Boyd covering a wide variety of topics ranging from history, politics, current events, science, technology and emerging trends to food and wine, travel, adventure, and entertainment.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-28T08:17:04.044955+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/think-from-kera-875208"},"episode":{"title":"Critical Race Theory explained by its founder","slug":"critical-race-theory-explained-by-its-founder","published_at":"2026-05-12T17:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/think-from-kera-875208/critical-race-theory-explained-by-its-founder","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/think-from-kera-875208","url":"https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_140_f5409a36-1168-4849-a416-5ab2173e8d49&uf=https%3A%2F%2Fpublicfeeds.net%2Ff%2F140%2Ffeed-rss.xml","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/tracking.swap.fm/track/sblTq32fyWAjsHzze2LG/dovetail.prxu.org/_/140/f5409a36-1168-4849-a416-5ab2173e8d49/standard.mp3","summary":"There’s power in speaking truth to power — you just need the courage of your convictions. Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, and the cofounder and executive director of the African American Policy Forum. She joins host Krys Boyd to talk about her upbringing, which taught her to speak out when things weren’t fair, how that helped shape her work in critical race theory and intersectionality, and why she feels all people have the power to push for change. Her book is “ Backtalker: An American Memoir .” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices","meta_description":"There’s power in speaking truth to power — you just need the courage of your convictions. Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is Distinguished Professor of Law at…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2780,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/think-from-kera-875208/episodes/critical-race-theory-explained-by-its-founder/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/think-from-kera-875208/critical-race-theory-explained-by-its-founder.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}