Uncomfortable

Amna and Alyssa dive into some of the recent reviews of the podcast; and a preview of next week's conversation with Kerry O'Grady, a professor at New York University who was mistaken for a secret service agent and attacked online. Like what we're doing? Leave a review! ----> http://bit.ly/2nkax9i * ABOUT AMNA NAWAZ: Amna Nawaz is ABC News' digital anchor and an Emmy-award winning journalist who has reported from across the U.S. and around the world. Amna launched "Uncomfortable" to tackle the issues that divide our country, and to better understand how we move past them. Follow Amna on Twitter: http://abcn.ws/2m4DuF6 Follow Amna on Instagram: http://abcn.ws/2mLRYyb Discover more podcasts: http://bit.ly/2eBJMNa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amna and Matt Dowd, ABC News' chief political analyst, talk about the power of political campaigns in America and the change they can bring, both good and bad. Dowd lays out his ideas for how the country can move forward, detailed in his new book, "A New Way." Like what we're doing? Leave a review! ----> http://bit.ly/2nkax9i Discover more podcasts: http://bit.ly/2eBJMNa * ABOUT AMNA NAWAZ: Amna Nawaz is ABC News' digital anchor and an Emmy-award winning journalist who has reported from across the U.S. and around the world. Amna launched "Uncomfortable" to tackle the issues that divide our country, and to better understand how we move past them. Amna on Twitter: http://abcn.ws/2m4DuF6 Amna on Instagram: http://abcn.ws/2mLRYyb Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amna and Alyssa respond to feedback from last week's episode on hate in America. Plus, a sneak peek of next week's conversation with ABC News Chief Political Analyst Matt Dowd on how to heal our country's deepening political divides. Like what we're doing? Leave a review! ----> http://bit.ly/2nkax9i * ABOUT AMNA NAWAZ: Amna Nawaz is ABC News' digital anchor and an Emmy-award winning journalist who has reported from across the U.S. and around the world. Amna launched "Uncomfortable" to tackle the issues that divide our country, and to better understand how we move past them. Follow Amna on Twitter: http://abcn.ws/2m4DuF6 Follow Amna on Instagram: http://abcn.ws/2mLRYyb Discover more podcasts: http://bit.ly/2eBJMNa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amna talks hate in America with the director of the nation's leading hate-monitoring publication, Heidi Beirich. Her Southern Poverty Law Center group tracks hate groups, hate incidents, and hate crimes across the country. Why are there so many more groups today? How have their targets shifted? And what can be done to stop it? Beirich has some answers. Like what we're doing? Leave a review! ----> http://bit.ly/2nkax9i Discover more podcasts: http://bit.ly/2eBJMNa * ABOUT AMNA NAWAZ: Amna Nawaz is ABC News' digital anchor and an Emmy-award winning journalist who has reported from across the U.S. and around the world. Amna launched "Uncomfortable" to tackle the issues that divide our country, and to better understand how we move past them. Amna on Twitter: http://abcn.ws/2m4DuF6 Amna on Instagram: http://abcn.ws/2mLRYyb Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amna and Alyssa talk about John Ridley's belief in the inevitability of more uprisings like the L.A. riots. Plus, a preview of next week's episode with the Southern Poverty Law Center's Director of the Intelligence Project, Heidi Beirich, on hate in America. Like what we're doing? Leave a review! ----> http://bit.ly/2nkax9i * ABOUT AMNA NAWAZ: Amna Nawaz is ABC News' digital anchor and an Emmy-award winning journalist who has reported from across the U.S. and around the world. Amna launched "Uncomfortable" to tackle the issues that divide our country, and to better understand how we move past them. Follow Amna on Twitter: http://abcn.ws/2m4DuF6 Follow Amna on Instagram: http://abcn.ws/2mLRYyb Discover more podcasts: http://bit.ly/2eBJMNa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Writer-director John Ridley on the story behind his latest film about the L.A. riots, "Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992." Amna and Ridley discuss his mission to neither implicate nor exonerate anyone involved in this explosive moment in American history, and the potential for similar uprisings ahead. Like what we're doing? Leave a review! ----> http://bit.ly/2nkax9i Discover more podcasts: http://bit.ly/2eBJMNa * ABOUT AMNA NAWAZ: Amna Nawaz is ABC News' digital anchor and an Emmy-award winning journalist who has reported from across the U.S. and around the world. Amna launched "Uncomfortable" to tackle the issues that divide our country, and to better understand how we move past them. Amna on Twitter: http://abcn.ws/2m4DuF6 Amna on Instagram: http://abcn.ws/2mLRYyb Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amna and Alyssa answer your questions about racism from last week's episode with Hari Kondabolu. Plus, a preview of next week's episode on hate in America, with Heidi Beirich from the Southern Poverty Law Center. Like what we're doing? Leave a review! ----> http://bit.ly/2nkax9i * ABOUT AMNA NAWAZ: Amna Nawaz is ABC News' digital anchor and an Emmy-award winning journalist who has reported from across the U.S. and around the world. Amna launched "Uncomfortable" to tackle the issues that divide our country, and to better understand how we move past them. Follow Amna on Twitter: http://abcn.ws/2m4DuF6 Follow Amna on Instagram: http://abcn.ws/2mLRYyb Discover more podcasts: http://bit.ly/2eBJMNa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Comedian Hari Kondabolu talks about turning the tough issues of our time into laugh-out-loud jokes. From community organizer to "Mainstream American Comic," (his 2nd comedy album, out now), Kondabolu's career path tracks with some of our country's most trying, modern times -- tackling racism, sexism, and social justice along the way. So, is it okay to laugh? Like what we're doing? Leave a review! ----> http://bit.ly/2nkax9i Discover more podcasts: http://bit.ly/2eBJMNa * ABOUT AMNA NAWAZ: Amna Nawaz is ABC News' digital anchor and an Emmy-award winning journalist who has reported from across the U.S. and around the world. Amna launched "Uncomfortable" to tackle the issues that divide our country, and to better understand how we move past them. Amna on Twitter: http://abcn.ws/2m4DuF6 Amna on Instagram: http://abcn.ws/2mLRYyb Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We explain how last week's interview with Cenk Uygur got uncomfortable. And, a preview of next week's episode with comedian Hari Kondabolu, co-host of the podcast "Politically Reactive." Like what we're doing? Leave a review! ----> http://bit.ly/2nkax9i * ABOUT AMNA NAWAZ: Amna Nawaz is ABC News' digital anchor and an Emmy-award winning journalist who has reported from across the U.S. and around the world. Amna launched "Uncomfortable" to tackle the issues that divide our country, and to better understand how we move past them. Follow Amna on Twitter: http://abcn.ws/2m4DuF6 Follow Amna on Instagram: http://abcn.ws/2mLRYyb Discover more podcasts: http://bit.ly/2eBJMNa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cenk Uygur, founder and CEO of 'The Young Turks' joins Amna to talk about his 'hostile takeover' of the Democratic Party, using the same populism he says propelled Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders to power. With a new 'Justice Democrats' wing, Uygur plans to unseat 'corporate Democrats' in 2018, and lead the party by 2020. Like what we're doing? Leave a review! ----> http://bit.ly/2nkax9i Discover more podcasts: http://bit.ly/2eBJMNa * ABOUT AMNA NAWAZ: Amna Nawaz is ABC News' digital anchor and an Emmy-award winning journalist who has reported from across the U.S. and around the world. Amna launched "Uncomfortable" to tackle the issues that divide our country, and to better understand how we move past them. Amna on Twitter: http://abcn.ws/2m4DuF6 Amna on Instagram: http://abcn.ws/2mLRYyb Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We weigh in on some of the comments and feedback from last week's interview with Jared Taylor. Plus, a sneak peek of next Tuesday's episode with Cenk Uygur, founder of "The Young Turks." Like what we're doing? Leave a review! ----> http://bit.ly/2nkax9i * ABOUT AMNA NAWAZ: Amna Nawaz is ABC News' digital anchor and an Emmy-award winning journalist who has reported from across the U.S. and around the world. Amna launched "Uncomfortable" to tackle the issues that divide our country, and to better understand how we move past them. Follow Amna on Twitter: http://abcn.ws/2m4DuF6 Follow Amna on Instagram: http://abcn.ws/2mLRYyb Discover more podcasts: http://bit.ly/2eBJMNa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amna Nawaz discusses race and racism in America with Jared Taylor, editor of American Renaissance, who argues that whites deserve a place where they are the unquestioned majority. Yet Taylor doesn't consider himself a white supremacist nor a white nationalist. Like what we're doing? Leave a review! ----> http://bit.ly/2nkax9i Discover more podcasts: http://bit.ly/2eBJMNa * ABOUT AMNA NAWAZ: Amna Nawaz is ABC News' digital anchor and an Emmy-award winning journalist who has reported from across the U.S. and around the world. Amna launched "Uncomfortable" to tackle the issues that divide our country, and to better understand how we move past them. Amna on Twitter: http://abcn.ws/2m4DuF6 Amna on Instagram: http://abcn.ws/2mLRYyb Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have an idea for a topic we should cover? Drop us a line ----> http://bit.ly/2nkax9i * ABOUT AMNA NAWAZ: Amna Nawaz is ABC News' digital anchor and an Emmy-award winning journalist who has reported from across the U.S. and around the world. Amna launched "Uncomfortable" to tackle the issues that divide our country, and to better understand how we move past them. Amna on Twitter: http://abcn.ws/2m4DuF6 Amna on Instagram: http://abcn.ws/2mLRYyb Discover ABC Podcasts: http://bit.ly/2eBJMNa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices