UNDISTRACTED with Brittany Packnett Cunningham

By The Meteor, Pineapple Street Studios

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MaryNell Holden
 Nov 25, 2020
Excellent guest speaker! Thank you!

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Brittany Packnett Cunningham is an activist, educator, and popular TV commentator—and a trusted voice for millions of people interested in social justice. Now, with UNDISTRACTED—an original podcast from The Meteor and Pineapple Street Studios—she aims her focus on the most pressing issues of our time through the lens of intersectional feminism. From the latest headlines to deep-dives with today’s most fascinating changemakers, UNDISTRACTED is your weekly guide to the revolution.

Episode Date
Exclusive: Vice President Kamala Harris On A Year Without Roe
Jun 21, 2023
“Every Hashtag is a Human Being”: Honoring the Five-Year Anniversary of #MeToo
Oct 20, 2022
The End of the World as We Know It? Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Rates our Climate Future
Oct 13, 2022
“You Can’t Win if You Don’t Start”: Rep. Cori Bush on Running for Office—and Making a Difference
Oct 06, 2022
Derecka Purnell On Living (and Loving) Outside the Police State
Sep 29, 2022
The Queen Died. Now What? Three Brilliant Women on Colonialism and the Future
Sep 22, 2022
The Hidden Latinx Stories We Don’t Hear, with Julissa Natzely Arce Raya
Sep 15, 2022
The Kids Are All Right. The Adults Are F***ing Up!
Sep 01, 2022
Will We Be Smarter About the Next Epidemic? Two Experts Break it Down
Aug 25, 2022
A Future Without Police? Andrea Ritchie on Crime and Abolition
Aug 18, 2022
“People’s Kids Are the Center of Their World”- Caitlin Dickerson on the Horrors of Family Separation
Aug 11, 2022
Beyoncé’s Renaissance, According to Four Brilliant Black Women
Aug 04, 2022
“The System Works For Those Who Occupy It”: Maria Teresa Kumar on Voting Rights
Jul 28, 2022
Phoebe Robinson is Writing Her Own Rules (on TV and in Life)
Jul 21, 2022
“Covering the End of the World”: A Reporter on Gun Violence
Jul 14, 2022
Introducing History is US
Jul 12, 2022
Tiffany Cross on Roe, Resistance and What Comes Next
Jul 07, 2022
Michelle Colón is Living Through The Last Days of Legal Abortion in Mississippi
Jun 30, 2022
The Roe v. Wade News—and Finding Hope
Jun 25, 2022
Having a Baby While Black: Martina Abrahams Ilunga and Gabrielle Horton Know *All* The Stories
Jun 23, 2022
You Can Be Successful Where You Are: Majora Carter on Reclaiming Communities
Jun 16, 2022
“God is Big Enough for Our Questions:” Candice Benbow on Faith, Feminism and Lipstick
Jun 02, 2022
During a Dark Time, A Little Light with Bevy Smith
May 26, 2022
“Tell the Truth to Set Us Free”: Kimberlé Crenshaw on White Supremacy, CRT and Lies
May 19, 2022
WTF, TEXAS?! Cisneros, Crockett and O’Rourke on The Madness (and Promise) of The Lone Star State
May 12, 2022
What Happens Now? Gloria Steinem and Renee Bracey Sherman on the Future of Abortion
May 05, 2022
The Senator of TikTok: Morgan Harper’s Run for Office (and Our Hearts)
Apr 28, 2022
Motherhood, Love and the “Trayvon Generation,” with Elizabeth Alexander
Apr 21, 2022
“I Want To Raise a Free Black Child”: Brittany Packnett Cunningham and Reginald Cunningham On Parenthood
Apr 14, 2022
“I’ve Been Proud So Many Times”: A Texas Family Fights the Anti-Trans Laws
Apr 07, 2022
"We See Who Pays the Price": Muzoon Almellehan on War and Refugees
Mar 31, 2022
“You Deserve to Be Safe”: Nicole Chung on Parenting in a Wave of Anti-AAPI Violence
Mar 24, 2022
Kimberlé Crenshaw on the Origins of Critical Race Theory
Mar 18, 2022
"Buckle Up": Sen. Elizabeth Warren Still Has a Plan for Change
Mar 17, 2022
“I Don't Believe In The Guilt”: Real Climate Talk, with Mary Annaïse Heglar
Mar 10, 2022
Anita Hill on The Supreme Court’s Future—and its Past
Mar 03, 2022
“We Are Here to Fight Disinformation”: Sara Lomax-Reese and Akoto Ofori-Atta Build the Future
Feb 24, 2022
Ai-jen Poo on Caregiving: “We Take for Granted That Women Will Just Figure It Out”
Feb 17, 2022
Jemele Hill and Cari Champion on Racism (and Liberation) in Sports
Feb 10, 2022
Dr. Uché Blackstock on Pandemic Fatigue—And the New COVID Normal
Feb 03, 2022
Elaine Welteroth on the Great Resignation and Rewriting Your Own Definition of Success
Jan 27, 2022
“This Big Old Lie”: Heather McGhee on the Real Cost of Racism
Jan 20, 2022
LaTosha Brown on our “Moment of Reckoning”
Jan 13, 2022
One Year Later: “The Next Coup is Already Happening”
Jan 06, 2022
Nikole Hannah-Jones on America’s “400-Year Racial Pandemic”
Dec 16, 2021
Beyond Roe: Gloria Steinem and Renee Bracey Sherman on How We Got Here and What Happens Next
Dec 09, 2021
From SCOTUS to White Womanhood: Dr. Brittney Cooper Decodes Our World
Dec 02, 2021
We’re Back! A Sneak Peek at Season Two
Nov 24, 2021
PREVIEW! “BECAUSE OF ANITA,” WITH ANITA HILL, CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD AND MORE
Sep 24, 2021
BONUS! YOUR UNDISTRACTED HIGHLIGHTS REEL
Aug 19, 2021
Tarana Burke on Her Powerful New Memoir—And The Future of #MeToo
Aug 12, 2021
Pleasure Activist adrienne maree brown On Conflict, Canceling, and Community
Aug 05, 2021
Jemele Hill On “The Cursed Olympics”—And Simone Biles Choosing Her Peace
Jul 29, 2021
The Billionaire Space Race and Patriarchy in Physics, With Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Jul 23, 2021
Connie Walker On Covering the Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Jul 15, 2021
Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw On the Truth About Critical Race Theory
Jul 01, 2021
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Finally Fixing the Military’s Sexual Assault Problem
Jun 24, 2021
The “Grandmother of Juneteenth” on the Holiday’s Past, Present and Future
Jun 17, 2021
Lawyer Chase Strangio On “Genocidal” Anti-Trans Laws—And Resistance
Jun 10, 2021
Amani on Why This Moment “Feels Different” For Palestinians
Jun 03, 2021
‘Queen Sugar’ Author Natalie Baszile on the New Black Farming Revolution
May 27, 2021
Travon Free Wants To Flip The Script on Masculinity
May 20, 2021
Nikole Hannah-Jones Wants Us To Confront The Truth of Who We Are
May 13, 2021
Insecure’s Yvonne Orji On Black Joy… And Her “Homie” Jesus
May 06, 2021
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson On The “Feminist Climate Renaissance”
Apr 29, 2021
Andra Day on the Tragedy and Triumph of Billie Holiday
Apr 22, 2021
Sophia Bush on Surviving “Relentless” Harassment in Hollywood
Apr 15, 2021
Alexis McGill Johnson on the “Dire” Landscape for Abortion Rights
Apr 08, 2021
Shannon Watts Believes We’re at a Tipping Point for Gun Reform
Apr 01, 2021
Comedian Amber Ruffin Wants to “De-Gaslight” America
Mar 25, 2021
Rep. Cori Bush Is What “Keeping It Real” Looks Like
Mar 18, 2021
Lisa Ling on Anti-Asian Violence—And the Rising Movement Against It
Mar 11, 2021
Padma Lakshmi on the New Food Revolution
Mar 04, 2021
“The Squad is Big, Y’all”: Rep. Ayanna Pressley on the Power of the People
Feb 25, 2021
What Would a Future Without Prisons Look Like?
Feb 18, 2021
Opal Tometi on the Righteous Rise of Black Lives Matter
Feb 11, 2021
Raquel Willis Believes in Black Trans Power
Feb 04, 2021
Want A Safer Internet? Listen to Black Women
Jan 28, 2021
A Historic Day… And Why The 'Nap Bishop' Believes Rest is Radical
Jan 21, 2021
Valerie Jarrett on Impeachment... And the Next 100 Days
Jan 14, 2021
America Ferrera Is Talking ‘Bout a Cultural Revolution
Jan 08, 2021
BONUS: What Just Happened?
Jan 07, 2021
Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drew Are Building Black Futures
Dec 22, 2020
Flattening the Curve of Inequality
Dec 17, 2020
Sue Bird Won't Shut Up and Dribble
Dec 10, 2020
Tracee Ellis Ross Is The Lead in Her Own Life
Dec 03, 2020
Nikki Giovanni Believes Your Dreams Are Worth It
Nov 26, 2020
Rebecca Traister Is Still Good and Mad
Nov 19, 2020
LaTosha Brown Is Betting On the South
Nov 12, 2020
Soledad O’Brien Is Calling It Like It Is
Nov 05, 2020
Cecile Richards Is Ready for the Uprising
Oct 29, 2020
Coming soon: UNDISTRACTED
Oct 05, 2020