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Hosted by Esther Dillard · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 72 episodes
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The Color Between the Lines with Esther Dillard is a storytelling podcast that explores the histories, voices, and truths that often go unheard—but deeply shape our world.*]:pointer-events-auto scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]" tabindex="-1" dir="auto" data-turn-id="4e29b2f2-7c46-4232-803b-4c51b0aa0f0d" data-testid="conversation-turn-6" data-scroll-anchor="true" data-turn="assistant">Hosted by award-winning journalist and educator Esther Dillard, the show features thoughtful conversations with authors, activists, cultural leaders, and change-makers who use story to inform, challenge, and connect. Each episode goes beyond headlines to uncover the deeper context behind culture, history, and current events—helping listeners understand not just what happened, but why it matters.Listeners come away with a clearer understanding of how storytelling influences public opinion, policy, education, and identity. The podcast also offers insight into how stories ca
Esther Dillard hosts The Color Between The Lines with Esther Dillard, a performing show with 72 episodes published.
Rev. Don Abram says the policies gutting HIV funding right now are "death dealing." In this conversation, he walks through the three-year, university-backed study proving Black churches can be the ones to change that and
Pastor Steven Mills has already survived two cancers. Now the treatment that saved his life has left him fighting for a kidney transplant that could take up to five years to find. In this episode, Pastor Mills of First B
Good news for the Black community doesn't always make the headlines. Six months into 2026, there have already been real wins worth knowing about, in health, history, justice, land ownership, and economics. In this episod
Black women are taught to wear a cape push through the stress, hold the family together, keep going no matter what. Marsha Evans says that cape isn't strength. It's survival mode, and survival is not the same as healing.
One in 365 Black births in the U.S. comes with a sickle cell diagnosis. Most people who don't have the disease can't describe what a pain crisis actually feels like - and that gap in understanding shapes how patients get
He was shot at 16 years old. The physical wound healed in months. The trauma rewired his thinking for decades. And right as his new book on divine certainty releases his wife suffers a serious accident he never saw comin
White men are 29% of this country and yet they hold 90% of CEO positions, 90% of venture capital, and 98% of the U.S. presidency. If we believe in merit, what explains that gap? Political strategist and author Ste
A new documentary is putting the blind and low vision community at the center of its own story both on screen and behind the microphone. Possibilities , produced by the American Foundation for the Blind, is the first fea
Here is the corrected version two fixes made: Jerry Pickney Jerry Pinkney in the opening line, and Charnelle Pickney Barlow Charnelle Pinkney Barlow in the book credit. Jerry Pinkney illustrated more than 100 children's
Before the Civil War ended. Before Juneteenth and before anyone knew her name a fourteen year old girl stood at the edge of the Niagara River in the dark. Canada was a quarter mile away. And the only people who knew she
They eloped six months after his mother died. No reception, no celebration because after the world had mourned Coretta Scott King so publicly, quiet felt like the right thing to do. Twenty years later, Martin Luther King
In 2002, New Jersey became the first state in the country to make Black history mandatory not just in February, not just in one subject, but across every grade level and every classroom, all year long. Most Americans hav
FIFA called it the equivalent of 104 Super Bowls. But with kickoff less than a month away, nearly 80% of hotels across all 11 U.S. host cities are reporting bookings below forecast. International fans are staying home. A
Journalist Esther Dillard asked three generations of the men in her life that one question her son Nicholas, his dad, and his grandfather Anthony Dillard. What came back was not what she expected. This is not a typical C
27 pounds of fibroids. A pregnant Black woman. A hospital that tried to cancel her surgery.Dr. Pierre Johnson stepped in when the system said no. The board-certified OB-GYN known as The Fibroid Slayer removed the fibroid
What is the idea driving the redistricting battles, the rollback of diversity programs, the surge of authoritarian politics, and the rise of white nationalist violence in America and around the world? Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
She is 18 years old. She is headed to Columbia University to study human rights. And she carries one of the most recognizable names in American history. But this conversation is about her. Yolanda Renee King the only gra
"Your kids always tend to ask what's next, mommy?" Sharell Matthis said those words while working, while homeless, and whileraising six children with no safety net. This is her story. In this final episode of Unhoused an
"To live on the streets is very frightening. It lowers your dignity as a man and as a woman." Those are the words of Donald Gardner 68 years old, a cobbler, a HUD contractor, and a full-time caretaker for eleven years. T
She lost her mother at 15. Was stranded in Nigeria. Came back to Americaand landed straight in foster care. The moment she aged out she was onher own. No family. Two minimum-wage jobs. College classes. And no guaranteeof
Martin Luther King III
Martin Luther King III
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Ibram X. Kendi
historian, author, and the inaugural Carter G. Woodson Endowed Chair in History for the College of Arts and Sciences at Howard University · Howard University
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Ibram X Kendi
Author of How To Be An Anti-Racist · Boston University
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Gloria Steinem
political activist, feminist organizer · CIA
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Dr. Willie Jolley
Award-Winning Speaker, Best-Selling Author, & Media Personality
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Melba Moore
Tony Award-winning performer and Broadway trailblazer
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New Jersey Amistad Commission
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